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- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
Science 19, no. 2 (March - April 2008): 1-21 Abstract This paper looks at when and how preexisting interorganizational trust influences the choice of governance and in turn the performance of exchange relationships. We theorize that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
This perspective must capture the fact that collaboration is in itself a capability that is rare, valuable, and hard to imitate. Finally, we have begun research on a topic that strongly influences the success of collaboration efforts: the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Federal Reserve Chairman exerts exceptional influence over the U.S., in fact global, economy. As Janet Yellen prepared to take over the position, she would look back on Chairman Bernanke's tenure during the Great Recession. During that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
They limit the danger of political influence by establishing independent bodies to oversee the programs. In many cases, they have further reduced capture problems by passing the funds onto intermediaries such as venture capital funds that... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
have consistently identified the same types of individual differences and contextual factors (especially leader behavior) as key influences on speaking up by subordinates. Q: What led you to conduct this study? Did anything in your... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
implies that these firms would find it especially difficult to increase the scale of their operations and grow. Hence, understanding the factors that influence growth in such firms would be a conservative test of growth in other firms.... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked the potential to have much of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
feedback influence order quantities. We find that the portion of mismatch cost due to adjustment behavior exceeds the portion of mismatch cost due to level behavior in three out of four conditions. Observation bias is studied through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
and German. Government leaders and policymakers in each of these countries were influenced by the Essay's key idea that government should be a dominant player in helping shape economic development. Of particular interest to Reinert is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
thing? That's tougher to say. If people are happier to attend to sunk costs than to let the money spent on an item "go to waste," perhaps it's a good thing. Can it be used by companies to influence consumers' behavior?... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
expert witness, dealing with governmental organizations, working with schools and students, and influencing public policy, this volume helps social scientists forge the vital link between scholarship and social engagement. Contributors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
Abstract This paper empirically investigates how market leadership influences firm propensity to adopt new business process innovations. Using a unique data set spanning roughly 35,000 plants in 86 U.S. manufacturing industries, I study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
strength in many ways, including having influence in other countries because we've taught those leaders here. So these kinds of restrictions, small restrictions, began to undermine our competitiveness. “Values-based capitalism starts with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
very narrow slice. They know exactly the kind of customer they're looking at and they can go at them. Of course, this was subject then to other influences like the Russian influences, but I just felt that this goes way beyond Cambridge... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy? By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Maya Reddy Abstract—In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Building on previous research in economics and psychology, we propose that the costliness of initial prosocial behavior positively influences whether that behavior leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
forthcoming Abstract A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
is capital intensive and when it is difficult for headquarters to identify the value-maximizing investment strategy for the business unit. In evaluating the performance of profit centers, rate-of-return measures like ROA are likely to be effective when unit managers do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
fatalities. Second, mass shootings account for a small portion of all gun deaths but have an outsized influence relative to other homicides. Third, when looking at bills that were actually enacted into law, the impact of mass shootings... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman