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- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
3). We contribute to the literature on trust by examining trust accuracy (rather than mere trust levels), identifying the significant role of brief interpersonal contact, and revealing other-focused perspective taking as a key mechanism...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
immigration from certain countries has the potential to reduce the competitiveness of the US in the long run, as it mechanically restricts the pool of applicants (not only applicants from these countries, but also any applicants who...
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- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
less future-oriented behavior (Chen, 2013). Yet, research has not established how this mechanism may affect the future-oriented activities of corporations. We theorize that companies with strong-FTR languages as their official/working...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
"strategic"-with marketing people developing a marketing-centric strategy and favoring the marketing side of business-and derives two rational mechanisms for this outcome, one confidence-based and the other implementation-based....
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
mechanism remains unclear for now and provides an avenue for future research. The Bedside Manner of Homo Economicus: How and Why Priming an Economic Schema Reduces Compassion Authors:Molinsky Molinsky, Andrew, Adam M. Grant, and Joshua D....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
personality theory into a multi-level model of information acquisition and idea generation. We posit that innovator and peer personality are critical factors conditioning who will generate high-quality ideas, and that our proposed View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In this paper we address the question of learning in a two-sided matching mechanism that utilizes the deferred acceptance algorithm. We consider a repeated matching game where at each period agents observe their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
or get customers to do some of the work for you. Choosing among these strategies-finding the right funding mechanism for your business-will depend on both industry dynamics (e.g., price sensitivity) and the specific relationship you have...
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- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
culturally heterogeneous network increases the likelihood of receiving culture-related novel ideas from others in the network whether or not they share one's culture of origin. This finding sheds light on the mechanisms that underlie...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
of distributed innovation and its potential merits as a corporate problem solving mechanism is discussed. Issues related to TopCoder's scalability, profitability, and growth are also explored. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
we argue that under the right circumstances, these two domains can be shaped by managers in ways that favor one firm over another. By understanding these forces, managers will be in a better position to utilize the full tool kit of available View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions By: Liang, Hao, Christopher Marquis, and Sunny Li Sun Abstract—We examine the heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
of formal authority, but limited it with democratic mechanisms that enabled experimentation with shifting conceptions of authority over time. When members settle on a shared conception of authority, it is more expansive than their...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology and Innovation Management...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
likely to perform effectively those functions. We describe the concept of integrated reporting and why integrated reporting could be a superior mechanism to perform these functions. Moreover, we discuss, through a series of case studies,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as likely to leave over a two-year period if the firm is the subject of a shareholder activist campaign. While it has been argued that proxy contests are an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
desire for a product when sweatshop labor is present. Furthermore, we present evidence for a mediated moderation where beliefs about sweatshop labor use moderates the impact of desirability on purchase intention, and moral disengagement mediates this process. Motivated...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4
toward less profitable R&D firms. The latter is key to generating higher cash ratios at IPO, necessary for the secular increase, whereas the former mechanism amplifies this effect. The data confirm the prominent role played by...
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Sean Silverthorne