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- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms: within-firm productivity improvement View Details
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Hotchkiss, and Matthew Osborn Abstract—The use of M&A in bankruptcy has increased dramatically in recent years, leading to concerns that the Chapter 11 process has shifted toward excessive liquidation of viable firms. In this paper,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Chinese imports kept down U.S. inflation. Chinese savings kept down U.S. interest rates. Chinese labor kept down U.S. wage costs. As a result, it was remarkably cheap to borrow money and remarkably profitable to run a corporation. Thanks...
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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
generate significant returns? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze Perry's decision to invest in NEC Electronics. In doing so, it asks for the reasons that NEC might take actions that destroy value and shift value...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market. With the shift from hardware to software and services, HCL had slipped behind its Indian competitors and...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a positive effect on its rival's View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Sweden. We find that shifting to a temporally more frequent quota plan leads to an increase in sales performance for low-performing salespeople by preventing them from giving up in the later periods within a quota evaluation cycle....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Abstract—Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain-an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
different and many SOEs have learned the lessons of the past. Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making Authors:Jan Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow Publication:In The Network Challenge: Strategy, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make self-matching View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
organizations pursuing these strategies and identify four institutional logic shifts associated with these strategic transitions: (1) increasing external focus, (2) moving to greater openness, (3) focusing on enabling interactions, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
risk because I was still a student," he says. Initially, EyeView's model was devoted to helping businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target customers at different points in the sales cycle. Things were going quite well, Riesenfeld...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
our sample). August 2013 Marketing Letters To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
improvements in performance.3 We created the Balanced Scorecard because financial measurements had become insufficient for contemporary organizations. Strategies for creating value had shifted from managing tangible assets to...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
firms shifting display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above brand managers in the firm. These findings...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
emerging paradigms governing marketing in this new media environment. It concludes that while meaning-making remains the central purpose of marketing communication, the shift from broadcasting to interaction within digital communities is...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
the future strategy of the company. The company had become profitable after years of losses, but other problems had surfaced; competition had increased heavily in many markets and advertising—the free newspaper's only source of income—was...
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Martha Lagace