False Positives - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

introduction of stretch goals was also accompanied by both positive and negative incentives. The message to the frontline, whether intentional or not, was hit the goal; don’t necessarily tell us how you did it. The result, as we know,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a preponderance of View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

the learning organization: organizations with the capacity to sense and act upon opportunities for positive change. Around this time, I thought I'd better go to graduate school to learn and explore these ideas more carefully. Early on, I... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

treating platform systems and step processes as mutually exclusive architectures sets up a false dichotomy. Creating any good requires carrying out a technical recipe, i.e., performing a series of steps. Step processes in turn can be... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

people retain a false image of entrepreneurs as very heroic types. But most entrepreneurs are just regular men and women who happen to start their own businesses and go about their lives happily and independently. PM: Basically, we're... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos Abstract— This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms’ contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims Act against firms accused of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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