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- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
practice. Using evaluation data from variations of a single executive education program, we find that action-learning programs significantly enhance both individual and organizational outcomes compared to traditional executive education... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
firms to a size that sufficiently improves their chances of survival and success. The issue of growth in young firms is also interesting from an academic perspective. There is less research on growth of young firms, compared to survival... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
of these policies—and many others like them—operate in very similar ways, which is why a comparative perspective is so helpful. Once we understand that a great many seemingly unrelated policies all fit under the rubric of risk management,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
situations that many companies faced, and intensified their need for more sophisticated measures that could be used to evaluate and compare many different types of businesses. Since business policy groups at Harvard and elsewhere remained... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Published since 1979 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Competitiveness Report ranks seventy-five countries and measures the comparative strengths and weaknesses of their economies. At a press conference announcing publication of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
leave. Research has shown that US cities that mandated paid sick leave experienced less contagious presenteeism (employees coming to work while sick) compared with control cities. That is, people were less inclined to attend work when... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
get paid too much compared to everyone else. A: Yes, but that doesn't get us anywhere, and it's not completely valid anyway. They sure get paid a lot, don't get me wrong. But they're not the only ones. Real estate tycoons, singers, sports... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
In the midst of this crisis, VHSS, the German Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market prices from comparable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
crisis and then interest dropped off. It’s also been true there’s been a change in attitudes. If you compare 2015 to 1995, there’s much greater interest on the part of the students in shaping one’s own destiny. Rather than going to work... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
had very different perceptions of the effectiveness of K-12 education, however: Business leaders characterized the system as "poor and deteriorating" compared to other advanced nations' while superintendents saw it as... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
more jobs than the consumer support services layer—365,000 compared to 245,000—but it grew at a slower pace (70 percent) than the support services layer (229 percent). "The consumer support layer is thus the unsung hero of the last... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
compared to other IPOs and the market at large. The analysis found flips underperformed the S&P 500 by 5 percent in the following three years. Lerner believes that problems with quick flips occur because of the short period that... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
of Responsibility in Negotiation: A Case of Bounded Ethicality Authors:Paharia, Neeru, Lucas Clayton Coffman, and Max Bazerman Publication:Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution Abstract This article compares direct deception... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint MBA-healthcare courses may be a channel through which universities increase medical business skills and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
politician allocating all of her portfolio to risky investments has double the odds of being involved in a political sandal compared to a politician allocating all of her portfolio to safe investments. This suggests that those who are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
comparative advantage of clusters located in one region versus another. Under this scenario, geographic concentration is still valuable, but the center of production activity can shift from one location to another. The paper then analyzes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
dictate people should be treated preferentially. We first use a scenario study to establish that individuals expect leniency on their birthday. We then show that, compared to other days, transgressors are penalized more severely when it's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
sending some customers charity vouchers and others more standard product discounts (15% off your next purchase)—will allow companies to compare directly the ROI on charitable actions versus more traditional marketing actions - and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
individuals who are exposed to the treatment video show biological markers and cognitive performance comparable to those measured in individuals exposed to the control video. These results suggest a phenomenon of desensitization or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne