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- 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the...
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- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
lose weight; lottery incentive systems enable participants to win money if they attain weight loss goals. In this paper, we pool data from two prior studies to examine a variety of issues that unpublished data from those studies allow us...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
There is a temptation to explain the wide variety of approaches as a characteristic of the early stage of development in which the genre resides. Based on the evidence of three case studies, this paper explores the mechanisms that guide...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
that the time was now to capitalize on the trust that the platform had built with its members and explore adjacent opportunities. The options in front of them represented a wide variety of ways to grow, but how should the team prioritize...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
and within limits, a legal, fairly unregulated U.S. commerce in cadavers is taking shape. The growth of entrepreneurial ventures suggests that the question of whether such commerce can exist has de facto been answered. Cadavers are being donated every day to a View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
higher quality firm governance leads to a larger effect of tax avoidance on firm value. The results are robust to a wide variety of tests for alternative explanations. Taken together, the results suggest that the simple view of corporate...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
intensity of the debates and the opportunity to figure out on the fly what they think about the variety of opinions that are voiced in class. Each of the stories reliably evokes certain themes and issues. The lesson plans are designed to...
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- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor, must decide between a commercial and "open source" model for his new business case venture. Students analyze a variety of open source and proprietary business models and formulate strategic...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves as men—the stories they tell themselves about what it means to be male—and in the effect this sense-making has on how they behave at work. Much research on gender in organizations documents how...
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- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI) in developing countries. Agricultural producers face a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Baldwin Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
variety of immigration tales in America with 72 essays about the different ways we got here. This is a collection of family lore, some that has been passed down through generations, and some that is being created right now. A Burden of...
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- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
psychological safety, and embracing failure and conflict. Individuals who learn to team well acquire knowledge, skills, and networks. Organizations learn to solve complex, cross-disciplinary problems, build stronger and more unified cultures, deliver a wide View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
used in combination or in substitute for some kind of a consumption tax but has a variety of benefits that we should certainly explore in addition to raising revenue and has all the other benefits you'd associate with the externalities...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Since joining PwC in 1999, Elena has served in a variety of Human Capital roles and spearheaded the firm's signature Vanguard program, a year-long leadership development program for the firm’s Black/African American new hires. She is also...
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- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
as well as opportunities? Khanna: Here's an example. Let's think about the sourcing of talent. A business school in some sense is an institution that, in addition to training and teaching people to think about their role in society, serves a View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
quickly bring new ideas to market," Kanter says. Steven C. Wheelwright, MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration and chairman of the MBA Program, who works with a variety of firms in areas such as innovation, renewal,...
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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
to adapt based on industry changes, as well as on team strengths and weaknesses; they get the most by leveraging competitive resources, while communicating and collaborating effectively with key organizational stakeholders; they outsource a View Details