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  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

involvement of star actors critical to the success of motion pictures? Film studios, which they regularly pay multimillion-dollar fees to star actors, seem driven by that belief. I shed light on the returns on this investment using an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

environmental value of their efforts can see a big payoff. Consumers have demonstrated willingness to reward such companies by paying 5 to 8 percent more for their products. "For the kind of CSR that Interface practices, it's important... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

and job-training programs-have tended to operate in silos. But they are far more effective when they're networked. By collaborating to bridge the gaps between them, business, academic, and policy leaders can help generate more ideas,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

public finance, but it has been largely set aside in the modern theoretical approach to optimal income taxation, where welfarist objectives dominate. A prerequisite for that gap to close is the clarification of what benefit-based income... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

economies flourish and yet, people still pushed back, especially when it seems like the cultural gaps are too large to bridge. A recent study I published on the political effects of immigration in the early 20th century US examined... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Publication:Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 10 (2009): 4129-4156 Abstract Many investors purchase their mutual funds through intermediated channels, engaging and paying brokers or financial advisors for fund selection and advice. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

strong digital payment infrastructure, and a willingness to pay subscription fees. At the same time, winning in U.S.’s education market, where most students attend public schools and many ed-tech companies are proliferating, is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

and how they are evolving. It gives an idea of current best practices and gaps and projects what the future requirements might be. The second discipline, building and editing, is an assessment of one's own channels with a view to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

conflict. And then Shapiro, Rangan, and Sviokla took their own advice, following orders through eighteen companies to chart gaps in the OMC process. Their article on the research, "Staple Yourself to an Order," was recently... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

Based on dialogue with all stakeholders, create an information gap analysis, develop and implement necessary methodologies for creating missing content, and consult with the board to determine an "optimal level of transparency." The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

be able to coordinate their actions when messages' arrivals at their destinations are sufficiently correlated events. Correlation serves to fill in information gaps that arise when players are uncertain of the source of message failure,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

within pre-existing cognitive categories and therefore do not benefit from a pre-existing understanding or identity of an industry. Given the importance of identity, it is critical that we understand how the identity of a new industry is generated. I attempt to address... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

are increasingly paying attention to the aesthetic, symbolic, and emotional value of products, a value that is conveyed by the design language—that is, the combination of signs (e.g., form, colors, materials) that gives meaning to a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

for stretching the organization’s mission. While some may be able to deepen their existing funder relationships, others may need to find new funders to match. Third, the decision to zig or zag may create gaps in organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

an enormous premium relative to the core market, 200, 300, 400 percent, Apple's products, while still highly differentiated, have a very hard time selling at a huge premium relative to the core PC market. So problem number one is that PCs have been closing the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Virtual fitting-room technologies provide information about how a product fits a particular customer and promise to mitigate some of the frictions the information gap generates in the retailers’ supply chains. By implementing a series of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

happy or saving the environment). Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that this effect was driven by differences in the size of the gap between participants' expectations and reality. Compared to those who pursued an abstractly framed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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