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- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says...
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- 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
effectiveness. A thorough understanding of gatekeepers and their roles can thus illuminate academics, the financial community and regulators on how such gatekeepers can be the most effective and generate the greatest benefits for capital...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
the "institutional appropriateness" of their controls. Importantly, the fate of the competing control systems was contingent, not on how well their technologies addressed the problem of EurInsurance's capital adequacy, but rather on the controllers' capacity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
related activities). We consider whether there are similar benefits to related diversification within an operating unit and examine the mechanism that generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
the problem owner (in this case, LISH) only pays for winning solutions with the platform acting as the broker. In simple terms, the intellectual property is transferred from the winner(s) to the platform, then onto the end user or problem...
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- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
for information and search for solutions. Our results show that the effect of network structure is opposite for these two important and complementary forms of search. Dense clustering encourages members of a network to generate more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
technological outcome predicted by purely economic or organizational models. We also show that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning of new technologies. We thus...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
dramatically. Q: If there is agreement that a broadband explosion is generally a desirable thing, what role should government regulators and policymakers play in encouraging it? A: This is one of the major issues in the book, but there is...
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- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form, ranging from more general solutions with weaker constraints, to more specific solutions with stronger...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
lasting difference in the world. Distinctive aspects of his career included deep engagement with the world of practice, combination of experience with disciplinary insight to generate practically valuable intellectual capital, research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
meet the quarterly earnings targets of increasingly short-term–oriented investors. Reality: Companies that pursue major sustainability initiatives, and publicize them in integrated reports and other communications with investors, have also View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
innovation, as well as its generative potency. Finally, implications for theory, practice, and future research are offered. April 2015 Institutions and Ideals: Philip Selznick's Legacy for Organizational Studies What's So Institutional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
argue that inertial forces generally constrict how TMTs perceive innovations but that frame flexibility can overcome these constraints, increasing the likelihood of adoption and broadening the organization's innovation practices. We...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1939494 Working Papers Competing Ad Auctions By: Ashlagi, Itai, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract—We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings reconciliation. Although the informational View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Visions of Web 3.0 Harvard Business School Case 808-147 Explores the Semantic Web, a vision for the next generation of the World Wide Web in which information is stored in machine-readable formats. While the Semantic Web would make...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Harvard Business School Case 415-049 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp: Redefining Success in the U.S. (B) This (B) case describes the actions André Wyss, president of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, took in early 2012 to transform the company's View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
San Francisco-based Internet company allowed users to monitor their investments and communicate with each other about their portfolio strategies. The case recounts key decisions made by founder and CEO Steve Carpenter, including several...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
of sugary drinks. Four well-powered, incentive-compatible experiments evaluate two possible ways in which firms might comply with such a policy: bundles (i.e., dividing the contents of oversized cups into two regulation-sized cups) and...
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Sean Silverthorne