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- 01 Mar 2016
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The Western Front
potential partners. The government is used to the request for proposal (RFP) model—an agency has a need, a company proposes to fulfill it, and... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
conflict, we propose that commutes serve as transitions between home and work roles. Because employees hold no defined role during their commute, lengthy commutes keep employees in limbo between their home and work roles View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016
economies, many business enterprises defy traditional industry boundaries. In this study, we evaluate six "big data" approaches to peer firm identifications and show that some, but not all, "wisdom-of-crowd" techniques perform exceptionally well. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
Sciences Modularity and Organizations By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
either system can lead to the subversion of expected relationships in the other. This book rejects the simple equation of capitalism with markets or with trade, in favor of a three-level system that embraces factor markets as well those View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12
debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
India, China), but they overlook significant ethnic markets within the United States. For example, the combined African-American and Hispanic markets in the U.S. are larger than the economies of all but 13 countries, and more than 2... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
data for us to analyze, increasingly we're proposing that we do experiments together," Norton says. Researchers stress the difference between analyzing existing real-world data and conducting experiments in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
807-057 Describes a set of financing issues confronting a rapidly growing company that uses "Word-of-Mouth" marketing techniques in promoting research, new products, or services. The company proposes to set the terms View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic ecosystems. Specifically, how should diverse entities be integrated into a coherent network that generates goods in the present and new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
people believe the risk decreases (negative recency) but at the same time exhibit more cautious behavior (positive recency). The rest of the difference is consistent with two well established mechanisms: judgment error and the use of small samples in choice.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
sampling channel and by decreasing returns; and (4) amplify these demand and operational benefits in dealing with customers who have the most acute need for the firm’s products. Moreover, the effects we document strengthen with time as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it was pushing for innovation in the nascent Spanish credit card market. To avoid the considerable investments of time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
of science and technology, law, management, and policy. The empirical contexts for their studies range from household goods to financial services. After discussing the fundamentals of user innovation, the contributors cover communities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
continual streams of requests for personal information and by the equally unavoidable barrage of personal information about others. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11
housing firm. Along the way, he and his partners have contributed countless hours of community service to the neighborhoods in which they own properties. Now 80 and ready to retire, Gates is creating a request View Details
- 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17
research on anchoring and adjustment, for instance, we show that when presented with a desirable product, consumers anchor on scenarios of successful redemption and adjust insufficiently for things that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
national office. The national office proposes to play a screening role whereby a national growth committee will "green-light" the plans of local schools to create multi-site regions in selected areas of the United States. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
members sent the committee detailed curriculum proposals ranging from two to several pages. Thinking through their ramifications poses a daunting task. For example, adding small-group, soft-skill development... View Details