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  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

(inaccurately) labeled as revisions to be superior to revisions (inaccurately) labeled as originals. Study 2 pinpoints the direction of the effect: Revisions are appealing, as opposed to originals being unappealing. Moreover, the revision bias holds in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2002
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Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

But to what extent can mentoring—the old veteran teaching the young pup—speed up the process? DL: Well, I can't answer that with any authority because we didn't match the companies with entrepreneurs who didn't have coaches. What we do see is that there's a great View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

Alejandro EIsztain, CEO of Cresud S.A., is faced with the difficult choice of whether to sell, develop, or continue to hold the 151,000 hectares of remaining undeveloped farmland at the company's Los Pozos farm in Argentina. Developing the land will further expose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

examine the effect of increased competition on the disciplining effects of reputation. Using a variety of data sources, we find that competition leads to more issuer friendly and less informative ratings. First, the credit ratings issues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2011
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High Ambition Leadership

in this strategic direction through a variety of practices. They spend an enormous amount of time engaging their employees in communicating and further refining the company's strategic identity. Val Gooding, then the CEO of BUPA in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

activities that seek only to benefit society and not as opportunities to create economic gain. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409042 The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI) in developing countries. Agricultural producers face a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Baldwin Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

  Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

biotechnology leaders need to understand clinical trial management. Likewise, with a growing variety of new product introductions requiring pre-market testing, managers and analysts in many business sectors will benefit from understanding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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