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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms Authors: Modupe N. Akinola, David A. Thomas Abstract Workforce diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
the concrete promises of applying neuroscience to consumer psychology. Building from this, we focus on using brain data to predict consumer behavior, a topic that has recently generated a lot of excitement from academics and practitioners... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
element is one of the things we focus on, because it is really fundamental.” Should regulators step in? As Google and Facebook face threats of antitrust action, issues related to the digital economy, including online pricing, are drawing... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
studies drivers of regulatory behavior as well as the resulting decision-making process of managers within regulated organizations. In the paper The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior, forthcoming in the Journal of Financial... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
failing a test) but were unique to experiences of inauthenticity. These results establish that authenticity is a moral state-that being true to thine own self is experienced as a form of virtue. Publisher's link: http://francescagino.com/#/morality_research January... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
established the issues and highlighted some of the tradeoffs to set the tone for the rest of the course. The course benefitted greatly from a deep bench of excellent class guests and speakers, representing a range of approaches to climate adaptation. One particular... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
oft-discussed issue of temporal shortsightedness—the very human tendency to focus on present-day concerns without considering how our actions will affect the future. But there's also ideological myopia—a failure to realize that... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
purposes. Defense, hunting, whatever. And as we know in recent years, they've been used for bad things as well. So, every new technology has things that we can benefit from and things that we have to be careful about. I do feel that we need a good, thoughtful, View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
to increased representation of women in the top percentiles of achievement. Stereotypes and Belief Updating By: Coffman, Katherine B., Manuela Collis, and Leena Kulkarni Abstract— We explore how beliefs respond to noisy information about own ability across a range of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
"multi-front negotiation campaign" (Sebenius 2010, Lax and Sebenius 2012) offers an analytic approach that may enjoy descriptive and prescriptive advantages over more traditional approaches that focus on a specific negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
focus on preemptive actions people take before engaging in such behavior. Second, we focus on concurrent strategies, examining how people restructure situations such that their behavior seems less... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
million from advertising. The new CEO had to decide which of these three revenue sources he should focus on in the future and how this choice would influence the target customers, the service offerings, and the required capabilities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
program for neuroscience entrepreneurs. The company has assembled a core staff and a roster of more than 140 mentors who are experts in its four areas of focus—product development, operations, clinical and regulatory affairs, and business... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
to outsource water treatment because of its increasing complexity and strict regulatory requirements. Industrial water treatment is a capital-intensive industry, so that tends to drive it into the hands of large multinationals.” Indeed,... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about the Bitcoin system itself. This article presents the platform's design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and points out risks and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne