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  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the potential benefits. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

the world of startups. It also describes how certain industries, like energy, are poorly suited to the investment profile of traditional venture capitalists. The product development cycle is too long and the capital required to develop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

sleep, all participants were presented with a problem that required a creative solution. In the two-odor conditions, a hidden scent diffuser spread an odor while the problem was presented. In the sleep-with-conditioned-odor condition,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

explore the role of organizational identity in the adoption of new sustainability practices, focusing on how identity functions as a driver of (or sometimes a drag on) adoption. Drawing on illustrations from the U.S. hotel industry, we examine how sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

Taylan, Elie Ofek, Oded Koenigsberg, and Eyal Biyalogorsky Abstract—This paper studies the strategic interaction between firms producing strictly complementary products. With strict complements, a consumer derives positive utility only when both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

performance of innovative business enterprises is not clearly specified. Modern economic growth diffused from its origins in the North Sea region to elsewhere in western and northern Europe, across the Atlantic, and later to Japan, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level innovation, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy By: Derdenger, Timothy, and Vineet Kumar Abstract—Several key questions in bundling have not been empirically examined: Is mixed bundling more effective than pure bundling or pure... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

online will likely worry about receiving gifts on time. Training staff to enforce rapidly changing health guidelines and diffuse tension with customers who don’t comply mask-wearing regulations will also be critical to keeping the peace... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

the firm than in its absence. An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a model that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these excuses. As a result, sales... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services increased View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

true performance. We identify key company- and country-level factors that, by intensifying scrutiny on firms and diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries, limit firms' use of selective disclosure. We test our hypotheses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

Measurement, Causes, and Consequences By: Comin, Diego A., and Marti Mestieri Abstract—This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns characterize the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

ascendancy of business schools as producers of economic knowledge. By following teacher-student networks, we also document the key role of business schools in diffusing "Chicago-style" economic approaches-offering support for... View Details
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel