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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 to 1994. The interaction of this preexisting network structure with patent growth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that the overestimation and underweighting View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
"denial is avoidable and leads to failure," such as Henry Ford's presumption that consumers would continue to want black autos in the face of evidence that they were becoming more interested in color; IBM's dogged pursuit of PC...
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by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiations be secret or open, separate or collective? How can you avoid being harmed by the sequencing tactics of others? Here's some advice: Study Patterns Of Influence And Deference Would-be coalition...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data available. We first document that firms significantly alter their tax...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to help them succeed. It seems the organization is signaling that being female is a liability,...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
they are also signaling to people that it might be safer to go out now,” says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Policymakers trying to avoid draconian...
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- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
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 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
there are not diffuse shareholders in the multinational-subsidiaries. Surprisingly, many of the same puzzling patterns we see in dividend policies more generally—smoothed payments, a willingness to incur View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
A series of experiments demonstrates this pattern in competitive contexts in which considering others' perspectives activates egoistic theories of their likely behavior, leading people to counter by behaving more egoistically themselves....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and...
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- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
"buys," the compensation paid to the outside agency includes markups on its creative, production, and media costs. When an advertiser "makes," it avoids payment of the outside agency's markups, but the in-house unit...
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- 22 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights
the ability of cities and states to attract corporate investment. Tourism — including conventions and major sporting events — is a specific concern. In a 2016 poll, nearly 50% of American meeting planners said they would avoid planning...
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- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
from analytics when they haven’t declared it themselves. If marketers avoid those tactics, use data judiciously, focus on increasing trust and transparency, and offer people control over their personal data, their ads are much more likely...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
researchers were able to find similar private firms for a good number of public firms. The team then studied the investment patterns of public and private companies within the match sample. "In particular, we looked at the level of...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
this category has lower performance along traditional metrics but offers new benefits around convenience, customization, and simplicity that fit squarely with a customer's behavior patterns and priorities. The business model supports...
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- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
too many organizations do not practice the thinking described above. Instead they fall into a pattern of only incrementally changing resource allocations from year to year. (The report doesn't, however, associate the practice with either...
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by James Heskett