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  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

faced with ethical dilemmas. The first study tested the hypothesis that a naturally creative person is predisposed to dishonest behavior. (The week before the experiment, the participants, 71 university... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We test the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

  PublicationsWhat to Ask the Person in the Mirror: The Seven Tests of Highly Effective Leaders Authors:Robert Steven Kaplan Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, forthcoming Abstract Successful leaders know that leadership is less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2012
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Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

through the cracks.” Fixing By Walking Around The program the researchers tested was modeled on Allan Frankel's "Leadership WalkRounds," which has been shown to improve safety in various medical facilities. His View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 19 Aug 2013
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Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

voting. Moss offers a simple analogy: Imagine you want to test a theory that punches cause stomachaches. If you examine the data and find that some people get punched without getting stomachaches, and that others get stomachaches without... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2015
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‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

humblebragging garners negative impressions because the strategy seems insincere, compared with pure bragging or pure complaining. They tested the hypothesis in a series of five studies, detailed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

which made it to the “refinement” stage, including Regan’s. “The hypothesis that we are testing is that if a complex legal brief is viewed firstly as a bundle of tasks to be integrated to create a customer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

products can get from a hit's popularity. Economic Links and Predictable Returns Authors:Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper finds evidence of return predictability across economically linked firms. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

and Finance Hypothesis Pass the Test of History? Authors:Musacchio, Aldo, and John D. Turner Publication:Business History Abstract For the body of work known as the law and finance literature, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

  Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

behavior. We propose that envy and empathy lead employees to discriminate in illicitly helping customers based on customer wealth. We test for this hypothesis in the vehicle emissions View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

outsiders? We study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

of historical change. Sadly, the field of entrepreneurship as it has evolved in recent decades has become narrow and is often confined to little more than econometric testing of large datasets concerning high tech entrepreneurs in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

local standards in the 2003-2008 period? We test the hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

nominal and inflation-indexed bond excess returns even after adjusting for liquidity, providing evidence for both time-varying real interest rate risk premia and time-varying inflation risk premia. Liquidity appears uncorrelated with real interest rate and inflation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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