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- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Communism. And somehow in this strange brew, you take Nazism, add it to Communism, divide by two and wind up with one of the most important capitalists in American business history. So because of its very distinctiveness, it sets a lot of what it means to be a... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
implicit incentives in the form of sharp increases in employee termination linked to "excessive" use of decision rights. Consistent with these implicit incentives, we find that employees in tightly monitored business units are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
perspectives have virtues. But they should not be fixed positions, says Harvard Business School's Kanter. To get a complete picture, leaders need to zoom in and zoom out. A close-in perspective is often found in relationship-intensive settings. It brings details into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
worth more. But often these contracts have sharp points at which the curve changes direction all at once, which can produce odd incentives. Even more strikingly, many of the compensation functions have jumps—sell just one more unit and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. For common seat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
in support functions and shared services.—Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton In a sharp departure from the past, Mobil adopted an objective and measure to increase dealers' profitability. Mobil set a stretch target to have its dealers... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of 1.05. In sharp contrast, standard factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power internationally. We show analytically and empirically that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
economic theory's ideal of perfect integration—an intermediate outcome that I refer to as quasiglobalization. Looking forward, levels of cross-border integration may increase, stagnate, or even suffer a sharp reversal if the experience... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
practices and a distinctive strategy, the company has generated enviable financial results. During the Great Recession of 2007–2009, the company went to great lengths to avoid layoffs. But as the case opens in 2013, one division of the company faces a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
of the "long tail" principle argue that lower transaction and search costs will lead to a shift away from hit content and cause more fragmentation in consumers' choices. This perspective is in sharp contrast with the more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
share buy-back campaign after experiencing a sharp fall in its share price following the end of the Dot-com bubble. The case provides a vehicle for exploring the ethical and human rights responsibilities of corporations in the technology... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
were shrouded with more uncertainty. The authors found that the lower prospects of future US employment reduced the average SAT score of affected international applicants by about 1.5%, with effects being especially sharp among the very... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit incentives in the form of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
post-AIPA patent applications experience a sharp increase in the probability of licensing after 18-month publication, and, on average, are 18 percentage points less likely than pre-AIPA patent applications to wait until allowance to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
4%. In reaction to these dismal economic conditions, the Federal Reserve had steadily cut interest rates over a seven-month period, most recently lowering its key rate to 2.25% on March18. In sharp contrast to the Fed, the European... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne