Knowledge Acquisition - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate the impact of waiting periods on gun deaths,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of “fitting in” and “going along”... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

receptions. However, the NFL relies on new talent, and so the draft goes on. For NFL teams, the acquisition of talent for positions both on and off the field is critical. Groysberg, Hecht, and Naik analysed a 38-year panel dataset of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

low "excludability" in the sense that the designed artifact must be shared. Our paper is based on an empirical study of a commons organization created to design new school buildings. We argue that the design commons organization induced teachers to volunteer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

finance value different sets of skills: innovating in S&E calls for in-depth knowledge and/or interest in a specific subject area, whereas finance tends to value a combination of general analytic skills and social skills over academic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

learning challenges presented by rapid knowledge growth, uncertainty, and complexity in dynamic settings. We test whether there are additional performance benefits to using deliberate learning activities and whether the effectiveness of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the long term. Our results are based on intervention analysis with a treatment/control group design. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

the significance levels are lower. Cases & Course MaterialsAdnexus Therapeutics, Inc.: Considering the Exit Harvard Business School Case 609-015 Dr. John Mendlein, CEO of Adnexus Therapeutics Inc. (Adnexus), a private biotechnology company, must decide whether to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

the New Due-Diligence Process for Mergers and Acquisitions Authors:Steven R. Anderson, Kevin J. Prokop, and Robert S. Kaplan Periodical:Journal of Private Equity (in press) Abstract A fast-track profit model, exploiting the simplicity and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operating styles as well as in scale. We examine three examples—Ben and Jerry's View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details