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  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha cofounded Zeal, an education technology start-up providing a web-based, mobile learning platform that helps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

compensating differential for working when outside options are most attractive), but more experienced answerers tend to forego these opportunities. Book: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/google-answers.pdf Stop Stealing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

"00," instead of 99 cents, and exclude the suggested retail price of a product on the tag in favor of just one marked-down price. "I think that on the consumer side this has simplified pricing, which makes a lot of sense," Lal says. “All... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

considered essential? How could employees’ safety be guaranteed? And, most recently, how can businesses preserve financial viability in the face of rapidly declining demand for products and services? The experiences we collected show... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

generally is at a tipping point, with category killers being the first significant casualties of the (r)evolution that is occurring. Retail store asset productivity has been in decline since the start of the recession in 2007, and we... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

there." At the same time, she has observed, by hogging the discussion, these leaders not only limited their own learning but also made the class less productive as a whole. Gino wondered if the same dynamic could be occurring in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

willing and able to question how they do their work and why they do it that way. Is it because it's the most effective way, or is it because it's the way it's always been done? If the answer is the latter, and if the practice may be systematically, if inadvertently,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

Others identified factors accounting for too much focus. Yadeed Lobo said: "I think focus in organizations might have its roots in competitive strategy, intense focus on differentiation or cost consciousness." Edward Hare put it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the effect of workplace conditions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

  PublicationsiPhones for Friends, Refrigerators for Family: How Products Prime Social Networks Authors:Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Influence (forthcoming). Abstract We show that priming consumers with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in subsequent rounds—a ubiquitous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

visits, how to conduct them most effectively, and how to debrief after visits. The note is, therefore, relevant to MBA, Executive Education, Field Study, or project contexts where the focus is start-ups, entrepreneurial management, new View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

DaVita in 1999, breaking an important promise to his family in order to do so, he was determined to create a differentiated company with a community-like culture. Over six years, he had engineered an impressive financial turnaround and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence of fund closures resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28

that when Craigslist enters a newspaper’s market, the newspaper repositions itself away from other newspapers by changing its content. This results in greater differentiation between newspapers in a market but occurs primarily in markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

was substantial. We also show that immigrant inventors were more productive than native born inventors; however, they received significantly lower levels of labor income. The immigrant inventor wage gap cannot be explained by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how teams can develop a knowledge-integration capability to dynamically integrate members' resources into higher performance. We distinguish among three sets of resources: relational, experiential, and structural and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

switching costs, multihoming is hard, which makes it complicated for firms or individual users to switch from one platform to another. The next criterion we identify is relatively homogenous products and a lack of identifiable niches. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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