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  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

an array of implications that can be tested with our data. Our contribution is twofold. We disentangle the role of risk aversion and talent in determining how firms select and motivate managers. In particular, risk-averse managers are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

accountability standards and for monitoring them. The authors show how accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail to achieve their objectives. Accountability is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

“Cancer is so heterogeneous that we have to build robust, standardized datasets that can be thoughtfully analyzed to answer those questions.” Once they have it, however, most research organizations protect their data, as it represents a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

a concurrent change in electronic transaction standards allowed hospitals to document a larger number of diagnoses per claim, which had the effect of reducing risk-adjusted patient readmission rates. Prior studies of the HRRP relied upon... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

Fruitful avenues for future research are suggested. February 2015 Journal of Management Accounting Research Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 By: Datar, Srikant M., Dennis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 28

strategy comes into question when students take the first standardized test aligned with the more rigorous Common Core State Standards. While the test results show that, on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Douglas S. Fearing Publication:Transportation Science (forthcoming) Abstract When air traffic demand is projected to exceed capacity, the FAA implements Traffic Flow Management programs. Independently, these programs maintain a first-scheduled, first-served invariant,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

and find that employees hired from low employment districts outperform their non-remote counterparts in standardized verbal and logical tests at the recruitment stage. To explain why the firm might be more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

vulnerable to serial correlation in the error structure. We discuss the associated biases and present a robust set of moment conditions for both lagged dependent and predetermined explanatory variables. Furthermore, we show that conventional View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

of miscommunication among experimenters and theorists about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design reports whether a general theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 8, 2006

between and among experimenters and theorists, and psychologists and economists, about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-032.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If a country's accounting standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

basic savings account with a standard 0.3 percent real interest rate, similar to the highest available alternative in the Chilean market; a basic account combined with meetings in a self-help peer group; and a high-interest account. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to find a higher proportion of homophilous interactions within these organizational structures than across their boundaries. We test our theory in an analysis of the rate of dyadic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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