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- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
technologies to drive experiments and make decisions more centrally. The note highlights important tradeoffs in achieving control and maintaining flexibility across multiple units. It describes how some...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
companies gain flexibility in the range of projects they may undertake. "Hiring outside contractors is a way for managers to access the talent they need to get the work done," says Bradach. Independent contractors reported a greater sense of accomplishment, as well as...
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Judith Ross
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
allowable constraints. The method then designs a point system that is based on the selected priority criteria and approximately maximizes medical efficiency, i.e., life year gains from transplant, while simultaneously enforcing selected...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
codes in the treatment and control regions; these procedures have been developed by scholars in other fields to approximate datasets that would have resulted from random experimentation. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
great change in recent years has been in China itself. The state-owned enterprises have realized the realities of competition and the need to improve costs and quality significantly. Furthermore, the government has allowed multiple View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
perpetrator. Finally, I examine how these factors are associated with the impact on competitiveness and find that internally initiated bribery from senior executives is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
important role to play, supporting businesses and business leaders during this transition. When you’ve been trained to do one thing—to maximize profit—we cannot assume that it’s going to be easy to change the system and pursue View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
know was the damage — not always damage, but on balance, plenty of it — that some would do over time. In the name of profits, the workings of a free market, pure self-interest, and outright greed, the American financial system stopped...
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- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
solution in combination with property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are, first, an understanding of the technical architecture of the system and, second, an understanding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
1,000 retail outlets, including Target and Toys “R” Us. Revenue has grown rapidly with just one flavor, but after multiple discussions with venture capital groups, it became clear that investors were looking for companies that had reached...
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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and $100 billion. What triggered this explosive...
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by Susan Young
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
intermediary to charge consumers fixed fees, to offer them screening contracts, and to subsidize search allowing stores' strategic decisions to be contractible or controlled by the intermediary. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
the larger field of organizational research. We test this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings reveal a continuum of open View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
proposes that team reflexivity-a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes-can function as an antidote to team-level biases and errors in decision making. We build on prior work conceptualizing teams as information-processing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore...
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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
performance management system into corporate governance processes. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map portrays, on a single page, a company's strategy. It includes the financial outcomes expected; performance with targeted customers and...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
Stock Exchange (NYSE); and Robert C. Gasser, managing director and head of U.S. equities at J. P. Morgan & Co. Financial exchanges today, Seifert began, must have the business systems of a technology company, with the requisite speed...
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by James E. Aisner