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  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

2000) and social comparison (Festinger, 1954) lead to well-known cooperative effects within subordinate-supervisor pairs of the same sex and race, but potentially competitive effects among demographically similar peers. Analyzing longitudinal human resource data on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive risk-taking. The bill requires public companies to conduct annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered four major types of actions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

The noncompete clause is the basis for a love-hate relationship, depending on which side of the desk you're seated. The noncompete is meticulous legal phrasing that forbids inventors or other professionals from offering their talents to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

Abstract In many service industries, companies compete with each other on the basis of the waiting time their customers experience, along with other strategic instruments such as the price they charge for their service. The objective of this paper is to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

benefit from revealing unit cost information to consumers. A natural field experiment conducted with an online retailer suggests that cost transparency boosts sales. Six subsequent controlled lab experiments replicate this basic effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

http://www.cbspress.dk/Visning-af-titel.848.0.html?&cHash=3818d01f1b&ean=9788763002417&code=kommende The Case for Professional Boards Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

http://hbr.org/2012/09/will-working-mothers-take-your-company-to-court/ar/1   Working PapersColocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors:Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, and Karim Lakhani Abstract We present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

well. Clearly the man-of-action hero is a very important model for professional life for the upper middle class. However, for the purposes of this academic paper, we had to restrict the boundaries on our claims. Q: Are there people in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

of companies that are helping create the conditions for the industry’s growth by amassing knowledge about best practices, influencing the development of regulations, exploring new uses for drones, developing a professional workforce, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

is subject to isomorphic pressures, which cannot be completely explained by industry affiliation or peer group membership. Inter-firm professional network connections, such as board interlocks and compensation consultants, provide means... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

relationship using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The results show social position, both within the field and within the organization, influences actors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

GDP growth hitting a peak of 7.5% in 2010. However, the high cost of conducting business in Brazil, known as "Custo Brasil," was hurting domestic manufacturing, while incoming foreign investments threatened to overwhelm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

teamwork and patient outcomes remain empirical questions in need of rigorous study. Objective: To identify and review survey instruments used to assess dimensions of teamwork, so as to facilitate high quality research on this topic. Research design: We View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

case study of a multinational firm in the biotechnology sector to illustrate how the core-periphery framework works in multiple emerging markets across institutional differences. The analysis is based on 32 interviews conducted with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Hythem El-Nazer, a young investment professional at TA Associates, believes he has found an attractive investment opportunity for the firm, MetroPCS, a wireless telecomm service provider. However, two months earlier, TA had invested... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

the Panic of 1907, and advanced by professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren Persons, after World War I. By the late-1920s, about a dozen forecasters competed to sell businesspeople their predictions, usually in the form of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

list of the most eminent psychological scientists, provide a broad range of insightful perspectives. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and professionals interested in learning about the development of the biggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

School. True professions have codes, and the meaning and consequences of those codes are taught as part of the formal education required of their members. Through these codes, professional institutions forge an implicit social contract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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