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30 Sep 2014
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that empirical research has used social enterprise largely as a context for theory development, rather than deductively testing, and thus building upon, existing theories. The latter pattern is due largely to the absence View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Microsoft—and some of his colleagues were on a flight to Austin, Texas, where they had an appointment with Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer. The purpose of the visit was to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
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Perplexity: Redefining Search

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Michelle Hu, Sriraghav Srinivasan and Radhika Kak

By early 2025, Perplexity had rapidly evolved from a modest startup into a popular "answer engine" valued at $9 billion. The company had boldly positioned itself as the disruptor to Google aiming to redefine search for the AI age. Through novel AI... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Venture Capital; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Competitive Strategy; Business Model; Technology Industry; United States

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25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

white counterparts." Ely's contribution, he went on to explain, is in developing theory about when and under what circumstances diversity leads to process gains or losses. The questions she asks, he said, include: How do... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2021
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Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success

By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang

Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Fintech; Artificial Intelligence; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Capital; Success; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science

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28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

Abstract—Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain-an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2008
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Accounting Information as Political Currency

consistent with established economic theories of accounting. That said, the results suggest that accounting has a broader political role than was previously thought. What surprised us was the significance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2024
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If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

What would Aristotle think about self-driving cars? As the abilities of artificial intelligence systems to automate complex tasks accelerate, warnings about the dangers of outsourcing life-and-death... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

propose a class of dynamic pricing algorithms that builds upon the simple yet powerful machine learning technique known as Thompson sampling to address the challenge of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2024
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Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney

In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details

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20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2011
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Non-competes Push Talent Away

research team investigated whether the results would change if they excluded all the data related to inventors who moved to California. Indeed, even without the pull of Silicon Valley, the brain drain theory... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

non IT-intensive industries after 1995, reversing the previous trend. The combination of increased turbulence and concentration, especially among IT-intensive industries, is consistent with recent theories... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2000
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Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

1970s, nearly all Xerox copiers were leased, with revenues dependent on per-copy royalties. If the machines malfunctioned, it was in Xerox's best interests to get there as fast as possible and keep the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Mar 2019
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Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a recent paper scheduled to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2008
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Spending on Happiness

Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

02 Jan 2019
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SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

inputs to machine learning and the creation of artificial intelligence. Each of these related fields of activity and opportunity encompasses a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

17 May 2004
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Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

enlisting companies to adopt a role considered the province of government. However, to use the analogy above, what if there are no washing machines to clean clothes? If the ideal institutions for redressing... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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First Look: February 27, 2007

Perplexity: Redefining Search

First Look: May 25

Racial Diversity Pays Off

Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success

First Look: April 28

Accounting Information as Political Currency

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

First Look: May 8, 2007

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

October 20, 2015

Non-competes Push Talent Away

First Look: October 15, 2008

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

Spending on Happiness

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

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