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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney, and Dan Ariely Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract We predicted that able-bodied individuals and white Americans would have a difficult time saying no to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such situations, individuals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
In this excerpt, Nohria and Leestma outline the challenges and rewards awaiting businesses that target the mobile-commerce customer. The best place to start? Develop a thorough knowledge of consumer behavior.The race for dominance in... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be able to observe many instances... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
today, I don't know how the hell they would get this idea started. The other point is that the health care system policy thinking is dominated by the idea of economies of scale. But there are diseconomies of scale. You get too big and you... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects of firm conduct depend in part on understanding View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
F."2 She beat the Las Vegas oddsmakers over-under by eight shots. She won on the publicity scale: Blasted by media attention that would have undone many a new player, she emerged from the relative obscurity of women's golf to View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
with a member of the Executive Education staff. EE: How has "Delivering Information Services" evolved in the nearly thirty years it has been taught? Nolan: The course has kept pace with all three of the dominant eras in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
happened to be less effective than the tribal tricks of the trade—tricks that the employees hid from the higher-ups, thus thwarting the goal of learning by observing. Bernstein says that there was no ill-intent or cheating behind such hiding behavior, but merely a... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
are rare. In Japan, things were very different. If you were to look at stock prices at the end of 2000, you would have found many stocks with prices over $10,000. Many of these firms had never split, even once. Because stocks were expensive, View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
individual differences in social dominance orientation-a preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality-interacts with perceptions of socioeconomic threat to influence the use of hypodescent in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
other people without considering his or her past interactions. In contrast, proactive testing tests everyone who has come into contact with an infected person in order to quarantine a cluster in a network instead of merely an individual... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
adoption. The evidence is less consistent with a dominant role for population as predicted by the semi-endogenous growth models or for country-level factors like culture, genes, or institutions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
that Judge Medina flagged a half-century ago seem destined to be repeated. Dynamic Industry Far from being a static industry with ossified giants, private equity features brutal competition and enormous dynamism. Groups that were dominant... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
restrict the validity of findings for some time to come." Biju Dominic offered the opinion that "I strongly believe that fMRI-led research into the brain is a top-down, far-too-simplistic approach . But a bottom-up approach that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
methods to what has been a field dominated by the quantitatively obsessed. While Underhill's work focuses on what shoppers do, Zaltman's deals with why they do what they do. Both approaches hold myriad insights for manufacturers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
strategy beyond markets. Very few studies have shown that a firm’s strategy increases policy performance; almost none have demonstrated a link between policy and firm profitability. Third, the topical areas of analysis appear to be limited. Environmental issues and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne