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  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination regions, a pattern that differs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29

foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the activities of more than 12 million establishments before and after 2008, we investigate how multinationals around... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

the Market for Digital Information Goods," is among the first efforts to study the interactions of two entirely new and radical business models operating in the same market. Sean Silverthorne: What attracted you to research this area... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the level of geographic aggregation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

self-control) in one domain subsequently reduces one's capacity to regulate behavior in other domains. One reason is that people have limited self-regulatory resources, and self-regulatory failure occurs when these resources become overwhelmed. This paper provides... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

a diverse body of stakeholders and incorporate their interests and ideas. However, this also introduces many new challenges. The author identifies key properties that such networking mechanisms must satisfy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

silos within numerous academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and some disease-based foundations. For new precision therapies to be developed, these data sets need to be shared broadly. Patients can help lead this effort by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

  PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

  PublicationsThe Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System Authors include:David S. Scharfstein Publication:Princeton University Press, N.J.: 2010 Abstract In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists—representing the broadest spectrum of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

recent years, we have learned that applying standard formulae to corporate transformations is, at best, ineffective and, at worst, dangerous. What's needed is a new approach that enables executives to transform organizations proactively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

had been discovered that the common combination of Plavix and Prilosec, an over-the-counter drug, could adversely affect patients. Finally, Plavix faced new competition from two new drugs with different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

the natural environment while creating urban living capacity by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage complex View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom features in response to new customers' request, even if these custom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

steadily risen across the company. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-management/an/R1312D-PDF-ENG August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

the work doesn't need to involve curing cancer in order to be meaningful. It simply must matter to the person doing it. The actions that set in motion the positive feedback loop between progress and inner work life may sound like Management 101, but it takes discipline... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

possible responses to this shortage: Sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers greater capacity, but network... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace