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- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
central planner who can structure work and then expect individuals to execute tasks in a prescribed order. In many settings, however, workers have discretion to deviate from the assigned order. This paper considers the operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
ensuring the well-being of victims, but also on the well-being of those who perform the necessary evils. In addition to the typical training that many companies run for managers, and the individual preparation managers do on their own... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
individual passengers’ connection times, the system also produces quantile forecasts for the number of passengers arriving at the immigration and security areas. Academic/Practical relevance: Airports and airlines have been challenged to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
receiving only a dispenser, (2) these effects persist after monitoring or incentives are removed, and (3) the anticipation of monitoring increases handwashing rates significantly, implying that individuals internalize the habitual nature... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
meaningfulness and awe, but there's this whole other element of what about not those one discrete moments, but the compilation of moments? So you talked about children and the pain that comes from having them, but it's that culmination of all the little moments. So I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
while showing off an industrial refrigerator stacked with free-range eggs and 25-kilo blocks of Normandy butter. Trays of madeleines cool on racks. A few feet away, workers monitor a machine that wraps the tiny cakes individually in... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
follow we present 6 of the 788 students who personify the remarkable qualities and achievements typical of the class as a whole. Al Dobron, Raj Kapoor, J.B. Lyon, Melissa Ma, Emma Minto, and Tarrus Richardson are talented individuals who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Awarded the Individual Air Medal and the Strike-Flight Air Medal, among other commendations. Additional Alumni with Iraq or Afghanistan Service Gerald E. (“Jay”) Hedley (MBA ’01),... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
between individual internal units and their external counterparts, but eventually this collaboration will become cross-functional and cross-stakeholder in nature. The implicit theory behind having annual reports that focus on financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
everyone from a Morehouse School of Medicine professor to an entrepreneur offering nonaddictive alternatives for pain relief to Georgia’s public health commissioner. Langford runs the meeting with a light hand, welcoming late arrivals and somehow giving everyone in the... View Details