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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders
This project studies the life choices made by a variety of people who have left a lasting legacy. Using biographical data, we are examining the choices that high-impact individuals faced in their lives and the paths they chose to follow. The leaders we study come... View Details
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Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms—(Executive Education)
Without exception, the most valuable companies in the world today are platforms. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other firms have built their fortunes by facilitating innovation across global ecosystems or... View Details
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corporate strategy, international strategy, strategy process
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Crossover into Business (for Professional Athletes)
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Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal? (with Fabio Kanczuk)
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Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Many of the decisions we face are made complicated by having uncertain consequences: how should I set my inventory when I don’t know what demand will be, should I refinance my mortgage when rates might go lower, how big a bet shall I make in a new business, and so... View Details
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Democratic Governance and Decision Making
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Demystifying Family Businesses
This course is primarily designed for students who are pursuing a career in family run businesses, family owned businesses, investment roles in family offices, or students that might invest in or wholly purchase a family owned business through a private equity firm,... View Details
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Doing More with Less: Overcoming Ineffective Long-Term Targeting Using Short-Term Signals
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Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation
Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details
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Executive Compensation
Professor Sandino’s other stream of research examines players that influence the design of an executive’s compensation. She has examined the role shareholder activists can play in influencing CEO pay and found that a compensation-related shareholder proposal could... View Details
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Going Digital: Implications for Firm Value and Performance
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How Foes Become Allies: The Shifting Role of Business in Climate Politics
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Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric
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International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (joint with Andrew Charlton)
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Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)
This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details
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Islamic Financing Practices
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Mastering Strategy Execution
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
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MBA Elective Curriculum: Investment Strategies
This is a CORE course for students pursuing careers in finance. Thus, students interested in pursuing careers in mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial consulting, marketing and client service, sales and trading,... View Details
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