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- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
organizations use incident-reporting systems to encourage employees to communicate about the operational problems they witness. Using data on nearly 7,500 reported incidents, we find that information campaigns encouraging process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
we argue that under the right circumstances, these two domains can be shaped by managers in ways that favor one firm over another. By understanding these forces, managers will be in a better position to utilize the full tool kit of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
The name of the game in Internet search has always been helping users find what they're looking for as quickly as possible, as precisely as possible. The panelists at the 2005 Cyberposium's "Search Visionary" session at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
place for original work.) If it weren't for NPEs, the argument goes, resource-rich companies would be free to steal ideas of small inventors without fearing retaliatory lawsuits—and this would poison the business environment. But critics have another View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
creation of a vision for the future that represents a significant departure from the past, one that requires breakthroughs for its realization; 2) the creation of a system that facilitates enrollment into and elicits voluntary commitment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system to rate tires on tread wear, traction, and temperature resistance had been rebuffed by a U.S. appeals court. Although the court found... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
processes and procedures and on complementing process automation with deep content knowledge. Upton also outlined three key challenges for B2B hub builders. First is the domain expertise. ("Important in making the thing work, but... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
market share. Its Mach3 shaving system was a blockbuster product, but the company was suffering the effects of its own reliance on trade loading—the practice of offering discounts to retail customers at the end of a quarter in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions of the world benefit from no such infrastructure. And what View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
transactions and vice versa. This paper estimates the effect of competition and service quality on mobile money demand. In this setting, service quality consists of service reliability (lower stockout and system downtime rates), pricing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
named him assistant secretary of labor for international affairs, a position to which he was reappointed several years later by President Kennedy. In 1962, Lodge, who had strong views about issues such as foreign aid, unemployment, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
on thousands of business owners in similar industries, what if this bot could help a business owner head off perilous trends and chart a plan for success? We call this future state “Small Business Utopia.” It may be that this name... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
over time, the relationship between firm size and corporate vulnerability is relatively time invariant. All else being equal, large firms in emerging markets are more financially vulnerable and also systemically important. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however, the timing and rate of adoption varied by prior industry. This study extends previous research on firm entry into new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
self-control) in one domain subsequently reduces one's capacity to regulate behavior in other domains. One reason is that people have limited self-regulatory resources, and self-regulatory failure occurs when these resources become... View Details