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  • October 1, 2021
  • Article

An Evaluation of Cross-efficiency Methods: With an Application to Warehouse Performance.

By: B.M. Balk, M.R. De Koster, Christian Kaps and J.L. Zofio
Cross-efficiency measurement is an extension of Data Envelopment Analysis that allows for tie-breaking ranking of the Decision Making Units (DMUs) using all the peer evaluations. In this article we examine the theory of cross-efficiency measurement by comparing a... View Details
Keywords: Efficiency Analysis; Performance Benchmarking; Warehousing; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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  • 05 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman
  • 25 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Ian I. Larkin; Education
  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

at which party young people affiliated with in their first elections and compared it with the amount of time spent at their new addresses. Pons says structuring the study as a comparison between those who moved and those who stayed was... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

high-ticket products, thus reducing the firm’s profits Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52083 How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons By: Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26

facilitating social comparison among agents. Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs send out lists of average... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

Benchmarking certainly has its virtues. Comparing production time or the cost of a standard process to that of peer companies can yield important insights about your own efficiencies—and ultimately, competitiveness. But benchmarking also... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

another's, or peer pressure to work on behalf of the larger group. All of those forms of incentive influence individual decisions, which are driven by expectations of future outcomes. “We make choices in anticipation of what the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 19 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

apprenticeships, internships, or work-based learning. That figure pales in comparison to other OECD countries like Germany or Switzerland, where 40-70 percent of students split their time between traditional school settings and learning... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

recommendations underperform those for sell-side peers by 5.9% using market-adjusted returns and by 3.8% using four-factor model abnormal returns. However, these findings are driven by differences in the stocks recommended and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

the merit system was based on peer comparisons at the salaried level. There were no executive bonuses. Stock options were awarded as recognition. But there was also a lot of pressure in the company, said... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

however, depends on the number of peers in the network, the amount of people that share, the state of broadband infrastructure, and the "resolution" of content. Intuitively, a better broadband infrastructure should make p2p more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation By: Gartenberg, Claudine, and Julie Wulf Abstract—This study suggests that peer comparison... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

the dynamics, what facilitates it." The Importance Of Comparison In Diversity Studies The researchers also stress the importance of comparing minorities with similarly situated nonminorities in an organization, so as to differentiate... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

in a population. This chapter advances a historical comparison of these two methods-individual case reports and population meta-analysis-and draws attention to the fragmentation of the institutional basis for assessing pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

employees, arguing that while agency theory provides a useful framework for analyzing compensation, it fails to consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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