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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Spring, and years of weak oil prices. Leveraging deep local knowledge, strong relations in the region, and a “PE investment approach in public equity markets,” Ajeej had outperformed its benchmark regional stock indices and attracted...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
retirement in February 2017. The case illustrates how even companies with stellar products can underperform and how benchmarking and financial analysis can help identify drivers of firm performance. The case describes how boards and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at least in the early years of the nineteenth century. The whaling industry was one of the earliest to grapple with complex issues in relation to the provision of high-risk investment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and alcohol abuse counseling. I...
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- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
adherence to the informativeness principle. However, 40% of firms—those that choose index-based benchmarks—retain substantial systematic noise in their rTSR metrics, which they could have substantially corrected by using their self-chosen compensation-benchmarking...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find...
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
basically trying to bring benchmarking to HR.Fuller: So, Ben, I think some of our listeners will say that’s a very interesting concept, but there is quite a bit of data about the labor market—much of it flawed—but available publicly from...
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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
when the ECB's Governing Council reconvened on April 10, 2008. Given both the market turmoil and the evident inflationary pressure, members of the ECB's Governing Council would have to weigh the available data extremely carefully as they decided whether to raise,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
them on their skills development as well their business performance. In light of this mandate, supports like flexible work and recognition of caregiving obligations take on added significance. How is this playing out and what is the View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
from shareholders than directors in a benchmark sample. They are also more likely than other independent directors to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with director elections and director retention to hold some...
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Anna Secino
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
(the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. Using the 2002 Benchmark Input-Output Accounts, we introduce a new industry categorization that separates supply chain (SC) industries (i.e., those that sell their goods and services...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
haunting benchmark not only for Exxon-Mobil but for global corporations at large, which have since become keenly aware of their exposure to this type of episode. Shell was also deeply affected by the 1995 dispute with Greenpeace over...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
essentially, you have what you call a “total rewards wallet.” We tell you what the value of your job is. That’s no different than any other company. Every HR leader in the world is out benchmarking and saying what the value of a job is,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
right now about potentially creating opportunity indices for other economies, tracking economic mobility and benchmarking that across countries, that can give us a window into how effective different economies are at investing in talent...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a little bit more tactical feel for what has been asked and then what kind of information you’re sharing and how you anticipate this benchmarking to play out.Ahuja: Sure, I’ll give a perfect example. So for some time, the federal...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
employee base progressed in terms of the skills that they’ve developed over time, and how do the skills that they possess in key fields that you’ve identified—whether it be in finance or machine learning or in data management—how do those skills View Details