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- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
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...
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by Michael Blanding
- 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...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
tools like an infrared eye tracker to measure eye movements and special vision software that analyzes facial expressions to gauge emotional responses. Experiments in the field are gaining popularity too, covering a wide spectrum of complexity but that can be as simple...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
person in need, which, in turn, increased intentions to help. Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis Authors:Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Annual Review of Financial Economics 3 (December 2011)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
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
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by Paul Guttry
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
global cash flows: to achieve resource independence from other state actors. In the context of state-owned entities, the power-use hypothesis of standard resource dependence theory can be used to analyze the dependence of SOEs on other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
indicate competence at the young firm — and the potential for firm-level success," she says. On a hunch that she might be witnessing an important phenomenon, Higgins began interviewing top managers from local biotech companies about their careers. When a trend...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 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
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
factor keeping people home. This hypothesis was tested when lockdown orders expired, and restaurants started reopening late spring. Sales nationally rebounded by 31 percent in May and 27 percent in June as...
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- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
quarterly and generally with less scrutiny from higher-ups. The researchers wanted to test their hypothesis that casino hosts in loosely monitored, more hands-off management structures were more successful...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1
Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
the employee onboarding process, Gino says. The researchers hypothesized that companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis...
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- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
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
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27
standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network effects from the extant...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
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...
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four studies, participants practiced novel rituals at home...
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Sean Silverthorne