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  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

ever since a malfunction of the plane’s autopilot feature led to the deaths of 348 people last March. “Many safety-related innovations can only be profitably developed if there is a genuine demand for it,” says Luo. “If there is no demand... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

analyses by its accountant seem to indicate that small projects are more profitable than large projects. However, analysis of activities using activity-based costing reveals otherwise. With this new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions should be preceded by a detailed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

achieved higher profits when employees were passive (proactive). Study 2 constructively replicates these findings in the laboratory: passive (proactive) groups achieved higher performance when leaders acted high (low) in extraversion. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007

  Working PapersPoverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal Authors:Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract We conduct an econometric analysis of the economic and social factors which contributed to the spread of violent conflict in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

convinced that they had been deceived by the sellers about the profitability of the company. ABRY must determine whether they were deliberately misled, what courses of action are available, and which they should pursue. Considerations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

long-run equilibrium regardless of the speed of Linux's demand-side learning persists if there are cost asymmetries. We find that because OSS implies lower profits for Microsoft, the larger the cost differences are between Linux and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international political dynamics of countries' IFRS harmonization decisions. The analysis is based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other customers, new research suggests. A team of economists has found... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples from companies of all sizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

effects. Overall, the analysis suggests that the global standardization hypothesis has considerably less momentum than the juggernaut that it is sometimes portrayed as. Q: You have written that customer preferences for globally... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

independent and dispersed contributors made highly interdependent contributions to the design of a single technical system (or sub-system). Based on a detailed analysis of the latter 28, we introduce the concept of actionable transparency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

acquisition process. Reluctance to establish more appropriate incentives has been a serious deficiency in most DoD improvement programs during the past five decades. Contractors should be rewarded with higher profits for complying with... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

want them to look around and see that there's not much fun or profit to be had so that they'll leave in search of better prospects. Relying too heavily on audits is problematic for the same reason that relying on inspections to improve... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

to sell insurance in the country. During the next five years China's non-life insurance industry grew from $8.3 billion in 2001 to $15.9 billion in 2005. Yet in 2007, domestic insurers continued to dominate market share and, Chubb had not realized the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

It ended up being the best revenue-generating idea Bing ever had, worth $100 million. That experience illustrates why it’s critical to adopt an “experiment with everything” approach, say Kohavi, the head of the Analysis &... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

rose-colored glasses will be much better positioned to profit from both positive and negative global developments. In summary, successful business operations in the current global economy necessitate a deeper understanding of political... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

focal social categories, also had greater difficulty maximizing profit across social category lines. Finally, Study 4 showed that the transaction utility of maximizing joint gains required additional compensation across social category... View Details

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