Idea posted: February 2023
Institutions: NYU Stern School of Business Tuck School of Business
Business projects, opportunities, or endeavours typically involve conjunctive risk—that is, the endeavour will succeed only if multiple, uncertain events occur. If just one of these required events fail to occur,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #843Idea posted: April 2016
Institutions: WHUOtto Beisheim School of Management York University Schulich School of Business Concordia University John Molson School of Business
Entrepreneurs need money to fund their ideas. Many legendary start-ups received their early funding from venture capitalists. However, VC’s are now more interested in contributing to later stage companies rather…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #593Idea 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: October 2015
Institutions: Singapore Management University University of Oregon Charles Lundquist College of Business University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Previous research has explored the impact of life and career experiences and circumstances on CEO managerial styles. This past research shows a monotonic or unidirectional effect of a CEO’s life…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #561Idea posted: October 2015
Institutions: International Integrated Reporting Council
As our perception of corporate governance has evolved, the need for a new and comprehensive way to report on an organization’s performance and sustainability has become apparent. One that takes…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #555Idea posted: September 2015
Institutions: Warwick University Business School UCLA Anderson School of Management Old Dominion University
In finance, a capital asset's sensitivity to risk is often represented by the quantity beta (β), and investment opportunities that have a high risk profile are known as ‘high beta’…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #549Idea posted: July 2015
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business
A new survey from Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance on how investors use information from corporate proxy statements reveals deep dissatisfaction with corporate disclosure about executive compensation. The…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #528Idea posted: June 2015
Institutions: Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University
Corporate board of directors are composed of executives (CEOs and CFOs) and non-executives. In the U.S. and the UK, the executives and non-executives are grouped on one board. In Europe,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #524Idea posted: March 2015
Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology Tongji University
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC), a company that specialized in the large-scale cranes used to load containers onto ships, burst on the heavy machinery landscape in 1992. At that time,…
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