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- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
Kay puts it, "The mistake is to make inferences about the relationships between outcomes and processes when we cannot observe and do not understand the processes themselves." The argument is that those things that contribute to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
inference about an individual but provides population estimates. The veiled method increased self-reports of anti-gay sentiment, particularly in the workplace: respondents were 67% more likely to disapprove of an openly gay manager when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
from fads, time their moves carefully to meet the needs of their respective organizations, and enlist top management support. One might infer from this work that the real secret weapons that many U.S. firms possess in their competitive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
recent years. Says Kominers, “It’s always nice when your research checks out with the view outside your window.” Research into action While their study didn’t necessarily look at the causes of development, Kominers says it’s a fair View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
press) Abstract In contrast to using controlled laboratory experiments, which offer a clear method for inferring cause-effect relationships, I will be using data from three personal stories to provide opinion and analysis. I will tell the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
downturn in returns are more likely to infer that prices would continue to go up. We thought the experimental work was interesting, but wanted to know whether those results had anything to do with real-world financial markets. Our main... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
employees to form personal relationships with founders outside of work. Late night beers or weekend family barbecues may have become routine. With a larger team, consider how these special out-of-work connections reflect on your leadership. Optically, it can View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions By: Lockwood, Benjamin, and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract—We use official data and standard optimal tax conditions to infer the positive and normative judgments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
measurement errors. I document the first direct empirical evidence that ICC measurement errors can be persistent, can be associated with firms' risk or growth characteristics, and thus confound regression inferences on expected returns. I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
deeper survey about their careers. Why was it that there were relatively few of these women in the very high income brackets, and many, many more in the lower income brackets? What was going on in their lives? I found out, of course—and you could View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
conjunction with ICCs to make more robust inferences about expected returns. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967706 The Challenges and Enhancing Opportunities of Global Project Management: Evidence from Chinese and Dutch... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
including some of our prior work, has shown that students display a number of systematic biases in the college application process, so it could be the case that students are inferring too much about a school after a scandal. Students... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
comparisons based on independent performance evaluations. (Although for online purchases, as for catalog purchases, brand names help consumers infer certain aspects of quality or fit, especially for consumers making repeat purchases.)... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 Authors:David A. Moss, Jonathan B. Lackow Abstract In the study of law and economics, there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
rarely featured in business research, but they were the ideal study subject for MacKay and Remer. “One reason for using retail gasoline was that if we can show that consumer inertia is important for a relatively simple product like retail gasoline, then you can View Details
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
whatever information they have about consumers’ price knowledge, drawing inferences from gender if that is all they have to go on, but disregarding gender if provided more direct information on consumers’ price expectations,” the... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
retailers might be one of the factors behind the recent TFP slowdown experienced by the industry in the U.K. Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 25,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
may not lead us to the greatest common good ... without government action(s).... These might take the form of incentives." Richard Eckel expanded on this idea, saying that "To suggest that for-profits embody any form of moral restraints is to View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
interactivity, including Thought tracing. Firms infer states of mind from the content of a Web search and serve up relevant advertising; a market born of search terms develops. Ubiquitous connectivity. As people become increasingly... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
librarians. Using journal impact factors to infer the quality of a faculty members’ publications incurs a high incidence of both Type 1 errors, when we conclude incorrectly that a paper published in a top-5 journal is a high-impact paper,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman