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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
decision makers (rather than an outsider) who formulate the strategy and shows that outsider-strategists often face a tradeoff between the quality of a strategy and its likelihood of implementation, whereas the CEO's involvement helps...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between incentives and monopoly distortions in light of recent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
military casualties? If it releases what is construed by the public as sanitized data, will citizens view the site cynically? Customer needs: As business people, some class participants wanted to see a clearly outlined customer perspective defining customer needs....
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- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
study participant. "There's a [perception] that there's a tradeoff between serving the needs of the organizations and doing rigorous research," Beshears said. "But the organization you're working with doesn't know the answer, either. You...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
possible that it was not a major impediment to overall technological progress, given the pace of innovation at the time.” “There should be further research to determine whether that’s a serious cost or not,” he continues. “What it does show is that there’s a View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
studies to check on shifts in price elasticities of demand and price-attribute tradeoffs can usefully improve the profitability of pricing decisions at a time when cash is king. Keep an eye on the new consumer. No one has a perfect record...
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by John Quelch
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
we fail to recognize that people consider many factors and make complex tradeoffs before making a decision. “Clinton voters didn’t consider that some Trump supporters actually may have voted for him in spite of—rather than because of—his...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
tradeoffs implying deprivation or loss. Women struggle just as men do, she said, in figuring out what they want to create and what their platinum standards are. "We have as much of a struggle, in fact, as men do. We are really in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
in general, struggle to perform well on these quality dimensions. Operations management theory suggests that this may be due to the cost involved in combining these dimensions. In other words, there may be a tradeoff between clinical and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than non-integration but imposes a cost on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
compensation to enhance sales rep productivity and better manage the achievement of sales forecasts. Multi-Sided Platforms (493) Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves...
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- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
or less important (because) customers had no sense when it came to entertaining tradeoffs (between features and cost)." Phil Clark commented that, regardless of method or purpose, "It is important to know your customers better than they...
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- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
for leaders who want to make wise decisions, rather than simply beat the other party. Which would you prefer? Most people choose Option A—the benefits of the tradeoff are quite clear. Yet the U.S. government, yielding to what...
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by Manda Salls
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
that the tradeoff between scale and friction is complex. For example, what effect does a company's origins, its beliefs, and how these are reflected in management behaviors (reflected in Walmart's emphasis on "family") reduce...
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- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
services in-house? Are there cost benefits, and do they depend on size? A: Previous research has shown that advertising agency operations are subject to economies of scale, and hence the advertiser faces a major tradeoff in choosing...
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- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
sides of land use proposals. This case demonstrates the dilemmas and tradeoffs related to private land owner rights and the role of government in seeking positive outcomes for broader society. Case students will rigorously look at issues...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
the organization we actually want to have a leader that’s less risk averse willing to take on these risks to innovate,” Minor says. Maybe there’s a tradeoff here to consider, he continues. “As you get someone who’s much more willing to...
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by Roberta Holland
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
assumptions, so that correcting for the former-a primary focus of the ICC literature-is insufficient by itself. From these findings, I argue that the choice between ICCs and realized returns involves a tradeoff between bias and efficiency...
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Sean Silverthorne