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  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

propensity score matched samples. We find significant heterogeneity in corporate disclosure responses across those four countries. Relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms in China and South Africa increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2006 (Revised August 2008)
  • Case

Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc.

By: Robert F. Higgins and Virginia Fuller
In May 2005, Steve Bollinger was about to become president and chief operating officer of Pervasis Therapeutics, a small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Health Industry; Cambridge
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  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion of productive management across firms. Using a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

is nearly as large.   Working PapersPrice Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret Pierson Abstract In this paper, we postulate a general class of price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti Abstract—Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

using systems thinking and complexity theory to help us understand the challenges at the ecosystem level. There's also growing attention to using randomized control trials in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2009 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
This case explores regulatory, product testing, and business strategy at Targanta Therapeutics, a biotech company preparing its first new drug application to the FDA. In October 2007, Mark Leuchtenberger, president and CEO of Targanta—which has just held a successful... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

screening participants in drug trials and make it possible to track and troubleshoot unexpected problems that show up after a drug is introduced into the general population, like what happened with Vioxx. The potential of this technology... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health
  • 01 Dec 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

takes away productivity." Fans of the television show, Alter Ego, in which avatars controlled by contestants competing to become the next pop star, would argue that Alter Ego is little more than an introduction to the Metaverse. They’re... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

of direct process control in which decisions have to be made "in the flow" in situations where there isn't time for conventional analysis (at least by humans). Is this a glimpse into the future of decision-making (without analysis... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 06 Jan 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

intended victim. (Ironically, in the meantime we have learned that the "worm" that attacked Iran's nuclear centrifuges and sent them whirling out of control and into self-destruction in all likelihood was carefully engineered... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 10 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

own business—even if that business may have failed." Nanda and Sørensen control for the possibility that former and aspiring entrepreneurs are more likely to cluster together at a company with an entrepreneurial culture,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

causes of the gender gap in patenting among life scientists. Our regressions on a random sample of 4,227 life scientists over a 30-year period show that women faculty members patent at about 40% of the rate of men. We found that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated firms that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small financial rewards, large financial rewards, and non-financial rewards,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

more likely to return to work when initial socialization focused on personal identity as compared to a focus on organizational identity or a control condition. In addition, authentic self-expression mediated these relationships. We call... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

investigate the impact of this practice on consumer welfare. To investigate, we implement a randomized controlled trial in which we vary the search results that subjects are... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

change initiatives-Predictability, Teaming and Open Communication, and Results Only Work Environment-that alter the structure and culture of work in ways that enable better work and better lives. August 2013 Tax Administration Review View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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