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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
increase, all else being equal. FBC was essentially an initiative that set out to test the limits of these relationships. Eventually, it found them. NASA's second problem came in failing to recognize that, because FBC was so... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
are skewed disproportionately amongst the rich, as the evidence suggests, then poorer matching in the marriage market will in turn lead to weaker bargaining positions for females. I test this theory and examine its implications for later... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Prima facie, it is unclear whether media outlets are favoring their own authors because these are the authors that their readers prefer or simply because they are trying to collude. We provide a test to distinguish between these two... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
for Google, etc. AI is already being used as an adjunct to diagnosis in some settings. However, the bar for US Food & Drug Administration approval for a diagnostic test is appropriately high, and “products” will need to meet this bar... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
planning has become outdated in today's fast-moving environments. What did you discover, and how did Microsoft do it? A: Planning is key. Planning is the glue that holds the organization together, providing a way to test the strategy,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
a paper on simulation and really review the literature. I'm curious about this very notion of how much we know about what people learn through simulation. SS: It's like becoming great at taking a written test in school. You deliver a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
the company's success: Its product development relies less on finding out what customers want than it does on what its employees think would be "cool." Its strategy is based on the introduction of a stream of thoroughly tested... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
Amabile was on the faculty of Brandeis University) entailed a survey using a previously developed and tested questionnaire. In exchange for the company's willingness to open its doors to the project, Amabile offered to provide management... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
article theorizes and tests empirically the conditions under which organizations' internal compliance structures are particularly likely to shape their compliance practices and outcomes. We argue that the institutionalization of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
of formal authority, but limited it with democratic mechanisms that enabled experimentation with shifting conceptions of authority over time. When members settle on a shared conception of authority, it is more expansive than their original design. This finding is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
implications for the efficient targeting of social programs more generally. A key issue in this debate is whether higher purchase prices lead to more intensive product use and, therefore, greater health benefits. We present results from an experiment in Lusaka, Zambia,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
important from the 1970s through the end of the century, and as a result, we have seen a massive proliferation of MBA programs. Despite the significant leveling of undergraduate education, the proliferation of the MBA has, in some ways, functioned as another View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
determinism. It helps to resolve this paradox by considering the enabling role of actors' social position. Adopting a relational view of human agency, I model the impact of their social position on the likelihood that actors will initiate changes that diverge from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
he was, and wondered why I had asked. Well, I told him of some rules of thumb I have been working on to isolate entrepreneurial opportunities in a recession, and this question was meant as a test for one of the rules. I knew of several... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
swap into dollars to make up for the dollar shortfall, but this may lead to violations of covered interest parity (CIP) when there is limited capital to take the other side of the swap trade. In this case, synthetic dollar borrowing becomes expensive, which causes cuts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
critiques of our work with empirical data and conceptual arguments. We agree with Wilson and Stolarz-Fantino that researchers seeking to understand a policy’s influence on consumers should test predictions about which strategies firms... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
forbearance in non-democracies. We argue that unelected regimes forbear their supporters’ informal businesses. We test this argument in Jordan. Using survey data of over 3,800 micro and small enterprises (MSEs), we find that informal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman