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- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
tells HBS Working Knowledge. "Indeed, if you paid your suppliers more slowly they'd almost certainly pay their suppliers more slowly, which would have the desired effect. "You have no control, and yet you have full control merely by not sending the View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015
clothes at a retailer, or checking into a flight at an airport-and in which NCR software would register the transactions, securely store and process the data, and use the transaction information to help NCR customers efficiently manage...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
compare prices over the web irons out cross-border price differences and expands trade. A poor farmer in India can check commodity prices on the Internet before he sells his crop to the local buyer. Thanks to a progressive decline in data...
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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
lasting impact. Reference checks need to be done as in normal hiring situations—recognizing that tracking down referees make take more time and effort. Using recruiters can be a double-edged sword, especially in the current scenario as...
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- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting processes. The situation has been escalated to Vodafone’s audit committee, which expects Colao and his team to act drastically. In the second case, 7 million have been...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
likely to be overlooked for top assignments and promotions. As partners and friends, we are checked out and unhappy. Rebels—those who practice “positive deviance” at work—are harder to manage, but they are good for the bottom line: their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
regime. Similarly, a state governor could also try to renegotiate a deal—but Diaz was now strong enough to confront any individual governor." This self-interested system of checks and balances worked well enough that the Mexican...
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by Julia Hanna
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
of checked that. The second way is that coaches and entrepreneurs found each other, and while coaches were willing to take on raw recruits, they wanted them to be coachable. SS: So what are the implications then for a business that wants...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
and Recovery In 2013, Sam Frons founded Addicaid—a mobile application (app) that allowed people in addiction recovery to track their progress, check in with counselors, and connect with others in recovery programs. The app was grounded in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
world, and this is yet another similarity that we believe may be instructive. It is no wonder that, according to reporting in the New York Times, people are feeling irrelevant at younger ages than ever before. If you don’t believe us, View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
capabilities. There is no such impact for firms without this ecosystem of complements. Dynamic panel analysis, instrumental variables, and a variety of robustness checks are used to address measurement error concerns and to add support...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
multivariate time series model to investigate the interaction between paid search and display ads and calibrate the model using data from a large commercial bank that uses online ads to acquire new checking account customers. We find that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Parsons. "If one is paid only on the profits of his division, then he has incentive to poach people from another division. You don't want that." Within the Methodist church, at least, there is a check on this sort of behavior:...
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- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
pricing in quarters where they have a financial incentive to close a deal, resulting in mispricing that costs the vendor 6%-8% of revenue. Robustness checks demonstrate that price discrimination by the vendor does not explain the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
considered to consist of only the players who contribute to the result, high pay dispersion has a detrimental impact on team performance. Several robustness checks confirm this result. In addition, we show that enlarging the definition of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
about tax legislation beyond concern over the amount of the check we write each April 15? Yes, very much so. Our tax policies reflect the values that the country stands for. Do we cut taxes on top earners or redistribute their wealth to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. They first designed a mobile site called Easy Food Stamps that streamlined SNAP enrollment, then developed the Fresh EBT app that allowed users to quickly and easily check their...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
a check on my own behavior because of the triggers in the environment. It is possible that at some point in time these triggers will be gone. ... One of the premises in the chapter and involved in other research we do is that it is often...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
four factors allows special committees and their advisors to assess the degree to which the playing field is level in an MBO, and (by extension) the extent to which a market canvass can provide a meaningful check on the buyout price. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
including 40 kinds of cheesecake. The average per-person check and return visits per restaurant are an estimated 50 percent higher than the industry average. In the kitchen, a modular menu process (revised every six months) keeps costs...
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