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- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
consumers. One view argues intermediaries provide valuable product education and guide consumers towards suitable products. Consumers understand how commissions affect agents' incentives and make optimal product choices. The second view...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
customers, and the variables involved in designing an optimal credit card. Concludes with a consideration of the decisions the CRM team had to make in designing the project, including whether to use conjoint analysis or implement a mini...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
sharing where all peers are endowed with standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
D. KC, and F. Gino Abstract—Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
deeming it unearned. They also reported a heightened sense of belonging, optimism about career advancement, and access to expanded networks. Yet among those who interacted regularly with Japanese counterparts, narratives also revealed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
comparison to their private counterparts. We do not argue that all SOEs are efficient or that it is optimal to have government ownership of banks and other companies. What we aim to show is that the return of state capitalism is likely to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
returned to Bain after graduation, one of her new clients was TAM Airlines. As part of a team charged with optimizing the airline's network and its budget, Sender really liked the TAM people she met. They were passionate about their work,...
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- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
will disagree about the optimal choice from a randomly selected available set. We provide an algorithmic method to compute these metrics in the case where the probability of a given feasible set is a function only of its cardinality. The...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single keyword, where in each round, each...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
guidance on the design of optimal call patterns in route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence effect of detailing is more pronounced for specialist physicians, whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
products, opening a deeper and informed dialogue about pricing. The note concludes with a succinct guide of how to optimally price products based on different organizational goals and product characteristics. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
subgroups can shape information sharing to create a hidden profile where there was none initially. Second, we describe how individual defection can weaken subgroup competition and, paradoxically, increase the chance that a team will View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product development processes. Products designed for stable and mature end-user markets require a process optimized for control and efficiency. In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
self-refining algorithms (aka machine learning) and wearable sensors and computers, and offer a compass for making the right choice for CEOs and CLOs who are guiding executive program design. Ultimately, this book serves as a guide to View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Edmondson, and Michael A. West Abstract— Many teams face the problem of process loss, or suboptimal functioning, with sometimes serious consequences, such as medical errors. Team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes—can aid...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
engineers should consider for implementing practical, optimized and reliable ethernet/IP control networks on the factory floor. In this unique book, you’ll find the 12 specific strategies Gary Workman used at GM, and a no-holds barred,...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the...
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- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
optimize brand exposure they need information on how to best retain consumers' attention from moment-to-moment during television advertising. This large-scale eye tracking study shows that the decision to zap or not to zap depends on how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
seemingly impossible medley of challenges to juggle, Mawilmada admits, in a free-association stream of thought that captures the alternating states of optimism and despair that can come from trying to help steer your country in the right...
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