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  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties, and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers exploit their connections at the expense of peripheral dealers as well as clients, charging higher markups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708490 Opening Dot EU (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-052 EURid considers possible market mechanisms to allocate initial domain View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

  Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

organizations is based on value, on average. While three-quarters of their revenue remains fee-for-service, we see a remarkable change to a reimbursement system that was static for decades. In particular, survey respondents’ organizations... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Oct 2016
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Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

meeting the needs facing the threats of rising sea levels and record floods; converting energy systems to truly replaceable sources; reducing fresh water consumption or creating large desalination operations; saving top soils; reducing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Apr 2005
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Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

looking to become what they want to be—as opposed to a series of vendor shops.— Pat Chadwick, Bloomingdale's Alan Barnett, senior vice president of merchandise planning and information systems for Barneys New York, noted that "the... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

transactions and vice versa. This paper estimates the effect of competition and service quality on mobile money demand. In this setting, service quality consists of service reliability (lower stockout and system downtime rates), pricing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

self-control) in one domain subsequently reduces one's capacity to regulate behavior in other domains. One reason is that people have limited self-regulatory resources, and self-regulatory failure occurs when these resources become... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

actually lived) is named phenomenology. In short, an epistemological mastery of a subject leaves one knowing. An ontological mastery of a subject leaves one being. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1681682... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers interested in change and organizations in different problem domains (sustainability, healthcare, poverty alleviation, and education). The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

previously untested cheating-as-stress-reduction hypothesis, we predicted a dose-response relationship between cheating and reductions in cortisol and negative affect. Taken together, this research marks the first foray into the possibility that endocrine View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2012
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When Business Competition Harms Society

Agency to institute such a program. The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: managerial structures offset... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2013
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Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

advantage. To find out what works, Teixeira went directly to consumers, partnering with the MIT Media Lab and Waltham, MA-based Affectiva, which has developed the first online facial tracking system for testing advertising. The research... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting
  • 23 Mar 2011
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China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

simplistic class analysis, that the countryside was the proper place for peasants, the cities for workers, would lead to the system of nationwide household registration and internal passports known as "hukou," which would... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
  • 06 Mar 2006
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The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

General Motors and others during apartheid. For General Motors, the issues had to do with employment policies and whether or not to sell autos in a repressive society. For companies like Cisco Systems and Microsoft, the question has... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 24 Sep 2001
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Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

In 1995, the Vatican dismissed an outspoken French bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Arguing that Gaillot had been far too liberal for the Church's doctrine, Vatican officials removed him from his diocese outside Paris and sent him to... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

diseases, and seamlessly integrating Twine with a client organization's electronic medical record (EMR) system and information technology (IT) infrastructure. The need to solve these problems had become more pressing since Twine was View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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