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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
obtainment in order to compensate for the costs that were put into that. For an organization—and the AT&T story is an amazing one, it had 100,000 workers that needed to be moved across their skillsets—how do you work on calculating the...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
problem is that companies do CSR in fits and starts," Rangan says. "Programs are fragmented, and so they're not that effective in helping the community or the company." And then the CEO wakes up one day and realizes that "we're doing $50...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional...
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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies Authors: Joseph Gerakos, Joseph Piotroski, and Suraj Srinivasan Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how different types of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
exciting, but rather unorthodox, new savings product. Instead of paying interest, this product gives depositors the chance to win large cash prizes each month. Michael Jordan, CEO of the bank's Consumer Solutions Division, must decide...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
to the acquirer's directors and senior executives. In addition, we find that acquirer CEOs are more likely to receive bonuses and are more richly compensated for completing mergers with targets that are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Australian headquarters. The outcome of these efforts was the inception of a unique corporate-community negotiation process known as the Tintaya Dialogue Table. In December 2004, after three years of negotiation, BHP Billiton and the five communities signed an...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
employees, the conduct of their employees. “How do I evaluate a high-skilled gig worker effectively? How do I cause them to bring me their best effort when I don’t have hiring and firing power? Their contract and compensation is probably...
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- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address the underlying reasons for actions that occurred prior to him becoming CEO that led to...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
black markets for narcotics, marijuana, sex, and surrogacy as well as the design of markets for kidney transplants in the face of widespread laws against (and broader repugnance for) compensating organ donors. I conclude with open...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Management Nava Ashraf and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 910-030 This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
needed to ponder on how to revise the company's compensation system to better motivate its staff in a deregulated market and communicate all these changes to the unionized labor force. Purchase the case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
thousands of women and men MBAs, research by Catalyst finds that women are still placed in less-promising roles and at lower compensation from their first post-MBA job—and those gaps only widen over time. This means that today's MBA women...
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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the investor-VC contract is set before the VC finds any investments, we show that it is the entrepreneur who must compensate the venture capitalist for any extra risk in the project even...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
focal social categories, also had greater difficulty maximizing profit across social category lines. Finally, Study 4 showed that the transaction utility of maximizing joint gains required additional compensation across social category...
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or keep them separate? What is the role of the CEO in building new growth engines within established companies? Course Organization and Grading The course includes a final paper, to be completed by teams. The paper will not require field...
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