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- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court"...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
examples. The article claims that by focusing on agency, learning, intentionality, and demand-side factors, our approach complements and also challenges extant sometimes static, supply-side, agent-agnostic theories of the multinational...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
pharmacovigilance in the present era of large-scale pharmaceutical use for chronic conditions. Crossing Boundaries to Investigate Problems in the Field: An Approach to Useful Research Author: Amy C. Edmondson Publication: In Doing Research That Is Useful for View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
innovation. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, we show that more IP protection and building stronger barriers around innovation are not always the best path to capturing value. Paradoxically, innovators can sometimes benefit by weakening the...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host...
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- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
by mapping a clear theory of change for microfinance. If the goal of microfinance is to alleviate poverty, they say, then MFIs should focus on helping their clients build successful enterprises, rather than...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Abstract— The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53561 Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
identity, search, and intellectual property. We suggest that much of the received wisdom in these areas of organization theory requires revisiting. We then discuss the implications for an organization's management of innovation and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory in psychology, we investigate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability: Political,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
relative to their costs in evaluating a product. So the production method should not be relevant. Anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise. Six studies show how the production method of versioning may be perceived as unfair and unethical and lead to decreased purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31
Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional affiliations have different effects on whether male and female faculty become "academic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
negative effect of added competitors on incentives. Thus uncertainty and the nature of the problem should be explicitly considered in the design of innovation tournaments. We explore the implications of our findings for the theory and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
Publications April 2015 Routledge Strong Brands, Strong Relationships By: Fournier, Susan, Michael Breazeale, and Jill Avery Abstract—From the editorial team of the groundbreaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
purchases the same customers make when shopping without a coupon. The standard permanent income or lifecycle theory of consumption predicts that grocery spending will be unaffected by the use of a $10-off coupon, while a simple mental...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
preferences. The second algorithm is more efficient, but applies only in the case when random utilities are logit. We show that the log-likelihood of the model has a particularly simple expression and we compute its derivatives. As an application, we View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
that helps businesses profit from making their buildings carbon neutral. (Not to put too fine a point on it, Teach For America was founded by a woman, and Carbon Lighthouse by two men.) The researchers then developed a five-point...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
and labor markets but find no evidence that product market efficiency affects the relative value of diversification. These results provide support for the theory of internal capital markets that argues that internal capital allocation...
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Sean Silverthorne