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- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
(dating from the 1950's in psychology and continuing through the 1990's in economics). We consider a random sample of 2x2 constant sum games to determine how close on average are the equilibrium predictions to observed play in repeated play of a game against a fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
example that could inform change is in the successful representation of minorities in tests for novel HIV/AIDS drugs. Black patients make up roughly 30 percent of the patients taking part in clinical trials for these medicines, compared... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
efficiency, it’s true that in many areas, private is more efficient. But not in health care. Compare Medicare administrative costs to those of private insurers. Medicare Advantage has average costs 15 percent higher than traditional... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
savings and loans. I compare this disaster to a Greek epic, in which RCA is lured away from its core capabilities by "Sirens" consisting of the business press, the academy, and Wall Street, for whom conglomerates were then the business... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
compared to the opening of new establishments by existing firms. We find interstate banking deregulations had a strong positive effect on the birth of new firms relative to the facility expansions of existing firms. We find limited... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
not enough; it must also be coupled with a positive outcome. Norton compares it to results in their online dating research in which users were more satisfied when they saw the website working hard for them during searching-but only if... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
information has increased considerably in the last decade, companies are still failing to disclose material information in a comparable format. We believe this has two downsides. On the one hand, companies are not adequately managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
pay as aggressively as men do, she adds. Furthermore, Fletcher notes that previous studies compared behavior under an interdependent, competitive scheme with an independent, piece-rate scheme. In independent payment schemes, participants... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
customer, they got back $1.38 in expected revenue the next year, according to the paper. For comparable employees in loosely monitored units the $1.00 yielded $1.82. "If I call you every time I see a deviation from the norm, you won't use... View Details
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
much comparable executives are paid and in what form. By adjusting an executive's pay package every year to keep it in line with the other executives' pay, companies hope to minimize what the consultants call "retention... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
give their money to the first partner, 69 percent compared to 31 percent, showing that they trusted the person who used willpower more to give back some of the money. The results indicate that participants believed the person who used... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
category known as “new nuclear,” which offers the potential to dramatically reduce costs and rapidly ramp up installations when compared to today’s nuclear power plants. But the success of new nuclear—and perhaps the future of the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
picture are relatively closed compared to the top buds in the picture above). Image source: The authors. Storage/Buffer Space. Image source: The authors. Energy and Resource Consumption The facility is currently heated by natural gas,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
assets if their technology investments prove economically uncompetitive compared to alternative “green” solutions. The newly finished Hysynergy Power-to-Hydrogen facility. Inside, large alkaline electrolyzers convert excess energy to... View Details
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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
jagged frontier of AI capabilities replacing and enhancing MBA skillsets. We will construct the short, medium and long-run potential for the organization of consulting services and the role of the newly minted MBA. Module 4: Negotiated value: In this session we View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
construction. STARTING SMALL: The last step involved planting 9,000 tiny perennials roughly eight inches apart. In blazing summer heat, the daytime temperatures on a conventional asphalt roof can reach 160 degrees or higher compared to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
comes from ticket and concession sales, compared with the standard 50 percent of most performing arts organizations. With numerous public outreach programs, the Big Apple, adds Slifka, "is both an incredibly successful performing arts... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule yields welfare gains virtually equal to the optimal rule. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace