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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
process at every level of the 17,320-employee company. "Most nonhuman resources, such as capital or equipment, can be acquired," he says. "What's more important is how a corporate strategy is executed and how people utilize resources." At Boise Cascade, where a...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
show that the magnitude of the forecast errors decrease is associated with the firm-specific differences between local GAAP and IFRS. Exploiting individual analyst level data and isolating settings where investors would benefit more from either increased comparability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
winery in China that was set on establishing itself as a world-renowned, quality vintner. Judy Leissner, the second-generation company leader, was at a crossroads in how she wanted to grow the business that her father founded in 1997....
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
create wine is, “Can I get the same quality of grape? Do I need to start thinking about terrain and altitude in order to mirror something that I had, a wine that I created 10 years ago? How will that play out as the climate is changing...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
business consequences. Using publicly available information, researchers can see how similar or different decision makers are and compare decision quality on the basis of investments’ performance. After examining tens of thousands of VC...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e., better precision of across-firm information) than to changes in information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS adoption improves financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
workforce strategy in ratings and risk analysis. Bill Kerr: Is trust in robo-investment advice misplaced? It may be too soon to tell, but the acceptance of automated guidance helps explain why investment services companies are among the...
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- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
on the second floor, so for stealth purposes, I brought it up in the service elevator. After Leslie and I made a few comments about the HD Americana lure and mystique, we gave out some T-shirts I had made up with the HD Eagle Wings...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
add to what Rajiv just shared, I’ve spent most of my career charting the landscape of opportunity, collecting lots and lots of data about what’s the demand side of the equation, where are workers needed, what are the skills that it takes to unlock good View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
quality of life and so forth were mostly important because they related to attracting and retaining talent. So we really saw that as the centerpiece of what we would do. Amazon itself, in fact, it said roughly half of its new jobs would...
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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using capital to benefit underserved...
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- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
marketing agency, from a product-focused business to a relationship-oriented one as clients seek deeper and more meaningful long-term partnerships. The 15-year-old company had already evolved multiple times over its history as new technological platforms and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
countries, but also especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries like Brazil and India seems to result from a long tail of poorly managed firms, which barely exist in the United States. Some...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related View Details
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside party is buying because they are "staking their...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked, and that only by conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance can scholars fully discern the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and the right to sell their View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/gino_krupka_weber_management_science_2013.pdf Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change Authors: Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel Publication: Manufacturing & Service...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
example, employers did not feel at a significant level—less than 40% thought that having a service that could provide a care referral to a vendor that was vetted by them would be all that impactful, but almost 80% of employees thought...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to...
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