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- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and macro findings. Fluid Tasks and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
(forthcoming) How do rankings affect demand? This paper investigates the impact of college rankings, and the visibility of those rankings, on students' application decisions. Using natural experiments from U.S. News and World Report...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
information about fundamentals on the part of international investors, or to price pressure. Price pressure is a potential explanation because flows have positive contemporaneous price impacts and are strongly positively autocorrelated....
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
questionable behaviors during the financial crisis and individual acts of unethical behavior in many spheres of society. When considered together, these actions have had large-scale impact on the economic...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
emotion regulation-mainly suppression and reappraisal-will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally charged contexts and that this effect will be mediated by the decision maker's decreased deontological inclinations. In Study 1, we find that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
those that return instantaneous results—even when those results are identical. In five experiments that simulate service experiences in the domains of online travel and online dating, we demonstrate the impact of the labor illusion on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately identify the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
are large. However, the proposed exchange ration values Mellon at a discount to its last closing price, even though it is the smaller and non-surviving bank. Kelly must consider the various dimensions of the deal—specifically the value of synergies, the form of...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was recounted in the business and financial press, PARC's technological...
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by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
strategic choices: geographic expansion, continued product innovation, serving MFIs outside of the OI network, and new distribution mechanisms to reach market segments beyond MFIs. Wholly owned by faith-based nonprofit OI, MIA must also factor in OI's desired mission...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
shareholders used to protect themselves by examining the dividend policy and governance of over 800 publicly traded companies at the beginning of the 1880s. We assess the importance of these mechanisms by estimating their impact on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
self-concept. Across two experiments, individuals communicated unfavorable outcomes decided by a superior. Consistent with justice research, when prosocial identities were not primed, performers experienced greater negative affect and...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
New York: Springer Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business By: Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau Abstract—This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
the confidence and skill to analyze the viability of innovations in terms of their technological, public policy, and structural impact and to have a sure sense of the mood of consumers who, all over the world, are deeply interested in...
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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
product and the activities associated with making and selling it. Selling becomes a function of individual "heroic" efforts, not a scalable platform for profitable growth. Equally important, this inhibits adaptive learning—a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
VAT adoption worldwide, but there is surprisingly little evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional monitoring has less View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
decision to launch a hedge fund in India, and the first years of the venture. It also profiles Nirva Patel and describes how they met, married, and managed the transition to a new life in Mumbai, including the impact on her career and...
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Martha Lagace