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- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
small-world structures and the emergence and disappearance of giant components in patent collaboration networks. Using statistical models, we test and fail to find evidence that small-world structure (cohesive clusters connected by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Party in Massachusetts. 1860s and 1870s: Opposition to Chinese immigrants in the US culminated in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned the entry and the re-entry of Chinese immigrants for more than 70 years. 1910s and 1920s: Congress introduced literacy View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Singapore's major trade partners began testing the nation's export-driven growth model. It was also becoming clear that the Singaporean government could no longer focus single-mindedly on economic growth. Was Singapore facing a mid-life... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
occupants with a temporary shared in-group that facilitates interaction. We develop and test these ideas in a multi-method field study of a hospital emergency department that introduced minimal team structures that we refer to as team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
effects in teams, meaning that they default to using the expertise of high-status members while becoming less effective at using team members with deep client knowledge. I test the model in a field study of 100+ accounting and consulting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
kayak a good illustration of your model? A: There were three things that made rodeo kayaking an ideal test case for our model. First, it was a new sport, but not brand new, so we had a history of how the sport and the industry developed.... View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
or deeply satisfying one. One test of the seriousness of an illness is the severity of the treatment it requires. For Tony, the bribe, with all its dangerous risks, is strong, self-prescribed medication. The flow of success had masked and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
In her case study, Sucher chronicles the shockingly fast-paced creation of Wingspanbank and highlights many of the issues that online banks must consider: how to partner with vendors, develop products, market the brand, and build and test... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
to traditional incentives. To clarify the sources of this unresponsiveness within volunteering, we appeal to a classic explanation: targeting behavior. In particular, we provide a laboratory test of effort response to changes in wages,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old children pay forward positive and negative outcomes in an identical testing paradigm. These results suggest that a cognitively simple mechanism present early in phylogeny and ontogeny leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
results translate to specific predictions on how the change in homogeneity will affect firm behavior. This paper's predictions can also serve more generally as a test for the theory of culture as shared beliefs. Download this paper: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
architecture. In particular, we draw from modular systems theory to develop a series of hypotheses about how different types of coupling impact the ability to update, remove, or replace the software applications in a firm’s portfolio. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
approximation of a fully sequential test for the maximum hazard ratio of the drug over multiple adverse events. A numerical study verifies that our method delivers Type I /II errors that are below pre-specified levels and is robust to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
analysts, but it's not clear that the analysts were actually uncovering fraud. In the twenty-some situations where an analyst was a source, only four or five identified a problem in writing in advance of the fraud. Market tests showed... View Details
- 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
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
individuals have the choice to enact a variety of communication styles. We test the differential impact of being “warm and friendly” versus “tough and firm” in a distributive negotiation, when first offers are held constant and concession... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
information environment quality, forecast horizon, sample composition, and tests of earnings management. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264101 Wider dem sauren Mund. Beiersdorfs U.S.-Geschaeft mit der... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne