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- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of each economy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
progressed and firms saw less and less return on investment, the value of these labs grew murkier. Read a book excerpt "This was a slow-moving train wreck," Lerner says. "There was a sense... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
Editor's note: It has been more than a decade since the publication of The Innovator's Dilemma, in which Clayton M. Christensen introduced the idea of disruptive technologies—those unexpected products and... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
to be as much as $12 billion, or 21 percent of Apple’s profits. The larger point is that Google pays Apple large heaps of money to help it preserve its 92 percent share View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
effects" (Alex Evans). "It really doesn't matter whether the world is flat or not. Most value is added by the exploiters, not the creators, and that works in both (flat and non-flat) environments" (Gerald Nanninga). These... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
groups, such as the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, work in partnership with business, government, and community leaders to promote business models that emphasize the public good. Beyond government and NGOs, other parties put... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
operations? 2) What might be the intellectual added value of such a perspective? 3) What are the basic elements of behavioral operations research? Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
whose value proposition is based on heritage—in this case “achievements for the benefit of mankind” (derived directly from Alfred Nobel’s will). It is also defined as a “networked brand,” one where four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
supermarket for "dolphin-safe" tuna, so Star-Kist decided to fish in safer waters and raised prices accordingly. In reality, even the most well-meaning customers didn't want to shell out more money for a can View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder share allocations. In addition we perform some counterfactual calculations that estimate the amount of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
cultural profiling, the practice of actively monitoring workers' behavior to assess how well they embody the values of their employing organization and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
has led to overblown valuations. "It's a different world. I'm still seeing prices out there on free money valuations that make me think someone didn't read the newspapers last week," he remarked. Stevenson cited Amazon.com,... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
part of the individual, Toffel says. But it also signals the values and culture of the company the CEO heads. “If one of your company’s core... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
events of their workday." Tangible incentives—salaries and bonuses—barely registered in the diaries. But the subject of progress, or lack thereof, loomed large. More... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
the tax holiday. The results indicate that U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and were reasonably well governed. The fungibility of money appears to have undermined the effectiveness View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
opportunity to misreport their performance or having their performance verified by an external monitor. To study the effect of social factors on the willingness to be subject to monitoring, we vary whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
value creation for shareholders overall. August 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics Last-place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Ryan Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne