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  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

variable bonus. "Stable hours and stable salaries make a world of difference to lower-wage retail employees," she says. "In the United States, even full-time employees often do not know when they will work and for how long... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

is very important to work intensively for long hours when I am beginning to see solutions to a problem,” he argued. “You are handling so many variables at a barely conscious level that you can’t afford to be interrupted. If you are, it... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

point, and by itself is unlikely to be sufficient because this process does nothing to advance learning within the project in the interim. Other processes seek to create new information after the initial negative decision, which might enable a fuller examination of the... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

market based on free riding produce high-quality products? Third, from a public policy perspective, does the mandatory sharing of enhancements raise or lower consumer surplus and industry profits? We develop a two-sided model of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2013-winter/54215/how-to-identify-the-best-customers-for-your-business/ Prolonged Thought: Proposing Type 3 Processing Authors:Dijksterhuis, Ap, Madelijn Strick, Maarten W. Bos, and Loran F. Nordgren Publication:Dual Process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

  Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

manner that increases reimbursement or avoids financial penalties. Identifying upcoding in claims data is challenging due to unobservable confounders (e.g., patient risk). We leverage state-level variations in adverse event reporting regulations and instrumental View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

spanning the careers of 3,884 academic life scientists. Using a combination of discrete time hazard rate models and fixed effects logistic models, we find that patenting events are preceded by a flurry of publications, even holding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

several models that could be used to forecast guest arrivals, including a moving average technique and a multiple regression model. The multiple regression model includes over 40 independent variables,... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

shown to be associated with a 24% increase in US investors' equity FPI holdings. These results are robust to various controls, are not evident for debt capital flows, and are confirmed using an instrumental variables analysis. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

the draw anymore. By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities. This article shows how to conduct customer, portfolio, and competitor diagnostics to pinpoint the highest-potential opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond risk premia reflects a changing inflation risk premium. We estimate significant time series View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2018
  • Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

the other parts of the problem,” Shore says. “In that sense, it’s like a model for complex business decision-making because, usually, interesting problems are not just a matter of tweaking one variable up a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

the raw bits and bytes," remarks Gerstner. A second strategy was built on the future of networked computing, a prescient decision made well before it became a prevalent business model with the rise of the Internet. Despite the... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

capacity for innovation, can and often should be structured as artists structure their work. Managers should look to collaborative artists rather than to more traditional management models if they want to create economic value in this new... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

value, meanings, or enactment of an identity. I also develop a theoretical model and propositions that generate insights into how individuals respond to identity threats originating from a range of sources. I use this theory to explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne