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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
field experiment in which we send encouraging text messages to students. Our initial results show that these simple text messages reduce the proportion of students that stop attending by 36% and lead to a 7% increase in average attendance relative to the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
policies; others maintain that circumstances beyond the government's control had placed the country in an unsustainable situation, and that the successful renegotiation opens up new opportunities. The case presents the story of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
auditor for both the financial and nonfinancial information contained in the integrated report, but these are covered by separate assurance opinions. Among the challenges of providing an integrated audit is getting the internal measurement and View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
schedules, and even safety, something has to be done. When combined with a loss of “voice” at lower levels in the organization, it can be lethal. In the view of some observers, that’s what happened recently at Boeing. The Boeing example A whistleblower complaint blamed...
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
choose one. But if I have to choose one, I would say I enjoyed the case on Nissan Motor, the auto manufacturer that had been turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they deliver can actually improve. Studies in food service show how revealing customers to employees...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
Olmsted Teisberg. Key Learnings 1. The U.S. health care system is a paradox in that it has competition yet fails to deliver improving value. Competition has been shown to be an incredibly powerful force in driving increased quality and...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/History/ The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
increase in revenue for established schools whereas invitations to prestigious postseason bowl games play a big part for less-established schools. Furthermore, we find that student population and education quality dissipate the effect of...
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- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
successful companies, the stage of the portfolio company (risky early stage versus less-risky later stage), and how much media attention the company had received at the time of investment. Controlling for these factors, they found that...
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- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
in frequent contact with department stores to help them present her clothing in display and to customers. In the 1980s, after building up her designer brand name, Claiborne expanded her business through licensing arrangements with quality...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules looked promising. The majority of a board's directors now had to be independent. And senior executives were required to conduct annual assessments of their internal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nejo.12003/abstract Working PapersInvestment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes Abstract We study incentives to invest in platform View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
not yet diffused through the entire population—the second mover can try to influence new users rather than get the small installed base to switch over. The second mover has to have some sort of asymmetric advantage, such as control over...
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- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
of its inadequate payments. In the end, the Democrats' health care reform will require drastic rationing of health care for the sick to control its costs. The government-controlled UK health care system points the way because it features,...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
a concurrent change in electronic transaction standards allowed hospitals to document a larger number of diagnoses per claim, which had the effect of reducing risk-adjusted patient readmission rates. Prior studies of the HRRP relied upon View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
by author, album, or genre, and provides a better navigation experience. Digital encoding quality varies widely in p2p networks, but it has continued to improve over the years and in many cases surpasses that of iTunes. The process of...
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