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- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for digital labor markets, and 3) quantification of own- and cross-country elasticities for contract work by...
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- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
Piecemeal attempts to fix elements of corporate governance will fail. The problem, to illustrate, is not just the structure of compensation. Nor will increasing required capital prevent problems at companies with strong incentives and...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
in terms of both the bankruptcy code and the cultural attitudes toward corporate restructuring. This case can fit into an introductory course in a module on capital structure and the tradeoff between the costs and benefits of debt or in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54490 May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down By: Gulati, Ranjay...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity....
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Feedback Shapes Social Networks By: Green, Paul, Jr., Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats Abstract—Many organizations employ interpersonal feedback processes as a structured means of informing and motivating employee improvement. Ample...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
provider, health plan, and reimbursement structure. Following new legislation in 2004, which allowed health plans and selected providers to contract outside of the regular group purchasing scheme, KKH and Dr. Deiner of Essen University...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
significant competition in this space. Could they execute against their vision? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316098-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-037 Introduction to Incentive-based Sales Compensation Systems This background...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
new debt, we interpret firm's switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from loans to bonds at times characterized by tight lending standards, high levels of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
PR. Many of the eight companies launched so far are doing well. Yet how can the program be scaled beyond its current size, and how can it structure its investments to reduce the dilution that Microsoft invariably faces, given that it does...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
for firms to capture value in a modular system. This paper brings together the theory of modularity from the engineering and management literatures with the modern economic theory of property rights and relational contracts to address the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
within a particular industry, they would buy up companies in other industries. Though South Africa is often classified as an emerging economy, it might be more correctly seen as having two economies. It became a very concentrated corporate View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal, says Harvard Business...
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by Staff
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
become more fundamental as advertisers target their advertisements with greater precision. In the paper that follows, the author attempts to identify the circumstances that make advertisers most vulnerable, notes adjusted contract View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Then, students view alternative ways of making each call. The materials are intended to build skills and awareness relevant to personal selling and, in particular, to the role and importance of “up-front contracts” in structuring...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes. Methods: We developed and administered a management measurement instrument using structured telephone...
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Sean Silverthorne