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- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, Making Meaning By: Amabile, Teresa M., and Michael G. Pratt Abstract—Leveraging insights gained... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
regional strategies and produce scalable models. In all four of these areas, promising models have already begun to emerge. By highlighting the most successful institutions and what can be learned from them, I show how America can create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
accountability. But partners are not paid until after their work is complete, and advertisers can extend this delay both to improve detection of improper partner practices and to punish partners who turn out to be rule-breakers. I capture these relationships in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
Quality, defined in terms of outcomes, is the secret to success in health care. Second, high-value care is delivered by integrated practice units including all the needed specialties that care for the patient's medical condition over the full cycle of care, not the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the data significantly better... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
publicly stated goals. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-outsmart-activist-investors/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
Cost cutting can severely impair your ability to be competitive or could cause you to lose customers. This creates an opening for entrepreneurs who think holistically. They consider mutually reinforcing changes in the entire business View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
strong investor relations (IR) departments, according to HBS professor Gregory S. Miller. Two cases he recently coauthored describe how these different firms in the oil and gas industry—controversial of late for its mile-high profits—have carved a path as View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
Kominers, and Alexander Westkamp Abstract—We introduce a framework of matching with flexible allotments that can be used to model firms with cross-division hiring restrictions. Our framework also allows us to nest some prior View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609050 NEC Electronics Harvard Business School Case 209-001 Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC, trade at a discount to their fundamental value? Can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
because external capital markets became more costly, but also because the efficiency of internal capital allocation increased significantly during the crisis. Our analysis provides new evidence on how the diversification discount and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
processes for sorting and recycling waste materials that are still employed today. Yet it proved difficult to combine making profits and achieving social value in accordance with the "shared value" model of today. As providers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
Abstract This paper provides a simple model of platforms with direct network effects, in which users value not just the quantity (i.e., number) of other users who join, but also their average quality in some dimension. A monopoly platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
exhibits a higher degree of hierarchy than the electronics sector. We further analyze the differences in hierarchy using a simulation model based on transaction breadth and transaction specificity. The empirical measurement and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines and exploitation R&D to improve their existing product lines. We View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel