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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
household products. Steinhoff was widely known as a South African company because it first listed on the South African Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and its global headquarters was in South Africa. However, Steinhoff went on to expand...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Multi-Sourcing at Adidas This case describes the design and implementation of an IT-multi-sourcing strategy at a large global sportswear company, the adidas Group, which is headquartered in Germany. To help increase the benefits and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
4,646 public companies in many industries, headquartered in 46 countries during 2005-2008, when environmental disclosure increased among many global corporations. Controlling for a host of organizational, industry, and national...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting had concluded. Anderson, CEO of...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters' countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public companies across many industries and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
established its headquarters for "Growth Markets" in Shanghai and "Established Markets" in New York. This positioned its China Development Labs (CDL) in Shanghai as a key platform for serving growth markets including...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
(most literature focuses on the August Thyssen-Hütte, the largest firm), suddenly I ended up in the headquarters of the Thyssen-Konzern. As my advisor once said: If you go into the archives and find just what you are looking for, you've...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
firms headquartered in the United States have performed well since 1980 when compared to firms in Europe or Asia (measured both by sales and by numbers of new product introductions), this essay explores the interplay of regulation,...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision-making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms around the world. Building on data showing that pharmaceutical firms View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
mandated to disclose information. We find particularly rapid improvement among establishments located close to their headquarters and among establishments with proximate siblings, especially when the proximate siblings are in the same...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
their headquarters’ countries. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public companies across many industries and headquartered in 45 countries during 2004–2007. Results show that firms that are more environmentally...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
relevant for the third sector. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a global CSO, until recently headquartered in Oaxaca (Mexico), which supports the sustainable management of the world's forests. In this task, the FSC faced the...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Case 718-406 Becton Dickinson: Creating Shared Value by Advancing Global Health Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was a medical technology firm headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, with 43,000 employees and 2016 revenues of $12.5...
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- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
among the first empirical evidence characterizing heterogeneous responses by those mandated to disclose information. We find particularly rapid improvement among establishments located close to their headquarters and among establishments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
test this framework, we examine how different types of mega-events (the Olympics, the Super Bowl, political conventions) and natural disasters (such as floods and hurricanes) affected the philanthropic spending of locally headquartered...
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Carmen Nobel