Idea posted: January 2016
Institutions: Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business University of Mexico Monash University Faculty of Business and Economics University of Virginia Darden Business School
Stakeholder Theory is a view of capitalism that stresses the interconnected relationships between a business, its customers, suppliers, employees, investors, communities and others who have a stake in the organization.…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #571Idea posted: August 2015
Institutions: University of Amsterdam Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Theoretically, deferred compensation should keep executives from leaving the firm. One way to defer compensation is through unvested equity pay. After four or five years, the pay is vested. This…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #536Idea posted: December 2014
Institutions: University of Houston Bauer College of Business Vlerick Business School
Employees can impact a company’s brand equity. A friendly clerk in a store or an effective IT project team that delivers to the satisfaction of the customer are two positive…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #466Idea posted: November 2014
Institutions: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania University of Oregon Charles Lundquist College of Business Tuck School of Business
When overseas earnings by U.S. multinationals are brought back to the U.S., those earnings are taxed as income. However, multinational companies have the option of leaving those earnings abroad and…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #458Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: HEC Lausanne MIT Sloan School of Management
For the past 20 years, like a herd of stampeding buffaloes, companies have been moving en masse their manufacturing to low-labour-cost countries. Despite the occasional bad publicity as working conditions…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #429Idea posted: June 2014
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business
New research, focusing on accounting ethics and using a carefully controlled experiment, reveals the power of social influence on the ethical standards of managers. After seeing honest budget reporting from…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #386Idea posted: May 2014
Institutions: HEC Paris University of Greenwich
Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development are increasingly linked to competitive advantage and innovation. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer have, in recent years, ‘reframed’ CSR as ‘shared…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #374Idea posted: August 2013
Institutions: HEC Paris University of Innsbruck ESSEC Business School Adelphi University
Decision-making on the financial markets is driven by information and by trust. But trust can be flagrantly abused. This was amply demonstrated by the Bernard Madoff scandal, considered to be…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #195Idea posted: July 2013
Institutions: New York University Stern School of Business University of St. Gallen
In recent years, the trust afforded to senior management has eroded significantly, particularly for those executives in finance-related positions. The demise of certain companies sent shockwaves across industries; successful covering…
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