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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
by: The leader's willingness to uphold organizational values especially when there is some perceived economic cost to doing so. (If values are violated when there is a perceived benefit in doing so, they are little more than guidelines...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
assurance to increase disclosure credibility in the case of South Africa, and increased propensity to adopt reporting guidelines to increase disclosure comparability in both China and South Africa. In contrast, treated firms in Denmark...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
nine secrets to happiness, each of which takes a common ideal, flips it on its head, and casts it in a completely new light. He provides step-by-step guidelines for applying each secret to live a happier life today and discusses such...
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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
return on invested capital, guidelines for capital structure choices, and policies related to payouts. Senior managers face questions about how these policies should be implemented and what impact they might have. Purchase this case:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
build both hard power and soft, illustrate the strengths and limits of each, and offer guidelines for choosing one over the other. Conflict among complementors is inevitable, but together, hard and soft power can help companies manage the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
for recovering businesses has been insufficient and eligibility guidelines often too rigid, despite the best intentions of city, state, and federal bureaucracy. And, she notes, small-business owners sometimes are simply too undermanned or...
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- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
credibility and increased likelihood of voluntarily adopting reporting guidelines that enhance disclosure comparability. These results suggest that even in the absence of a regulation that mandates the adoption of assurance or specific...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier society and improved living conditions worldwide, but also...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
and remain within the guidelines of the WDC charter, the UN secretary-general would name a review group to monitor each venture. The WDC itself, however, would remain a small organization managed by people from many countries—and not...
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by George C. Lodge
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
enforcing deceptive advertising guidelines against “fictitious pricing”—the practice of quoting list prices that do not truthfully reflect prior selling prices. This paper uses a large retail transaction data set that features wide...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
a clearer set of political guidelines today—certainly with Biden as president—than you've had in the past. And three, I think the younger generation just demands it. So you have a generation of people who don't see it as a trade-off. They...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
international guidelines on issues such as maintaining biodiversity, conserving forests, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "People left the conference feeling enthusiastic and confident," says Fri. "Unfortunately, nagging economic...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
around a culture shift. There are small wins, however. At September’s meeting, when the board began the process of hiring a new district lawyer, it did so under the guidelines of that resolution passed back in May—the one requiring the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
be that some of the firms that evaluate financial statements on behalf of institutional investors like IASS may start setting forward guidelines on this, and driving at more transparency in this space, I think, is both useful for...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
life. There are only 24 hours in a day. So work to improve your time management skills every chance you get. List and prioritize what’s important to you in terms of family, career, and other parameters. Use this list as a guideline for...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
what kind of guidelines are you using to adopt it? That's a debate in many companies. How pervasive should it be? How do you control it? And where do you see the best applications for AI in the human assets area?LaMoreaux: Yeah, the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Anything = Have Everything by Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) (G.P. Putnam Sons) Pasricha illustrates the happiness equation with nine secrets to happiness, each of which takes a common ideal, flips it on its head, and casts it in a completely new light. He provides...
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