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- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
of managerial ability (measured by the head coach’s prior coaching record) and resource quality (measured by the number of MVP, Pro Bowl, and all-conference players on a team), with resource synchronization as an intervening variable of organizational performance. They...
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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controller business from the migration of value to software from hardware, the scope expanded radically as the company completed the acquisition of UGS. It was then able to articulate a complete roadmap from computer-aided product...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
PublicationsIn Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization Authors:Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski Publication:Research in Sociology of Work Abstract Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Working PapersTraveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to examine how politicians with short-term electoral pressures control bureaucrats...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Partners, a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational change and strategy. Covers how Keller initially struggles with his assignment and ends with a question of whether or not he should attend a meeting that he was not invited to, where more senior consultants...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
them, first, requires in-depth knowledge of a given work setting. Quantifying them, next, requires multiple managers and employees answering questions that could get them fired if the company decided to apply its rules to the letter. This...
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
in "Approval," very poor assumptions. At multiple levels in that organization, there were large pockets of complacency—"We have many challenges; uniform business processes is a very low priority." There was...
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by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
an artifact of soundtrack alone because attitudes toward sharks did not differ among participants assigned to audio-only control treatments. This is the first study to demonstrate empirically that the connotative attributes of background...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
application, based upon data from multiple APM systems. The research was conducted in collaboration with a European automotive company, using two months of live application data. We show that our model detects abnormal View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
commercial strategy that is not yet fully defined. As Nutricia defines its strategy, it also has to define the strategic control systems it will use to monitor and fine-tune the strategy moving forward....
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
the compact arrangement of buildings, efficient use of water and power, and deployment of transit that reduces congestion. Investment and urban planning in three Asian cities are profiled as illustrations. Two sample proformas featuring View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
inside that matters. There was an 8086; there was an 8186, which had a very brief history. There was the 8286. IBM, which was the king of the industry, always insisted that there be multiple sources. The excuse for this was that in case...
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- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach between American-style capitalism and justice and increased alienation of the public from capitalism as a View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
fundamental firm value, which is gradually revealed into prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51971 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care Needs Real Competition By: Dafny, Leemore S., and Thomas H. Lee Abstract—The U.S....
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we are seeing View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
Expecting a general suggestion system or a semi-annual feedback meeting to take care of the "voice problem" is almost certainly a mistake. Most surprising to us has been the degree to which fear appears to be a feature of modern...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert