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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
their portfolio of brands. Results show firms shifting display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
of the ascending chairman and his constituents. That is, a change in chairmanship can only occur if the incumbent retires or is voted out--both of which are entirely independent of what is currently happening in the ascending chairman's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
exercise (Negotiation Strategy Simulation)—illuminate how through a thoughtful process of probing and testing, a negotiator may determine whether the other party tends to be cooperative or competitive. The material also demonstrates how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
independent oversight it is tough to write credible standards and subject them to internal monitoring and enforcement. A third competitive method, known as the Porter Hypothesis, after Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
as pre-packaged meat eliminating butchers in supermarkets and apparel goods retailers contracting third parties to sort, hang, and tag incoming products so that they are shelf-ready. As a consequence, the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
multiple channels can facilitate collective action via redundancy, the sending of the same message along multiple paths or else repeatedly along the same path (Chwe, 1995 and De Jaegher, 2011). This paper offers another explanation for how multiple channels may permit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
competitive advantage for their teams. Several players have benefited handsomely from playing under Belichick. Consider Deion Branch. When the Patriots drafted the wide receiver in 2002, he signed a five-year $2.93 million contract. Though initially listed View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
exceeds a peak price. Conversely, bidder shareholders react more negatively as the offer price is influenced upward toward a peak. Merger waves occur when high returns on the market and likely targets make it easier for bidders to offer a peak price. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
outcomes. This literature has emphasized local investor protections and the contractual environment between private parties as being of critical importance. The Lauder-Železný saga demonstrates that this emphasis may be misplaced for two... View Details
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
shootings depends on the party in power. A mass shooting increases the number of enacted laws that loosen gun restrictions by 75% in states with Republican-controlled legislatures. We find no significant effect of mass shootings on laws... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators are willing to pay a dollar to learn more about their recipient. Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence By: Halevy, Nir, Eliran Halali, and Julian Zlatev Abstract— Brokerage and brokering are pervasive and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
that determines whether two functions or firms can align their planning is how much each party knows about the other's beliefs about demand. Thus, in this paper's setting, improved communication can induce alignment even if no economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
Imagine an organization made up of a variety of three-dimensional shapes. Rectangular blocks represent the functions: manufacturing, R&D, and sales and marketing. The spheres are regional offices. Pyramids represent product groups—one for, say, automotive, another... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
ostensive attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a 1.3-billion-observations panel, we find the laws have no negative effect on registration or turnout overall or for any group defined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
global cash flows: to achieve resource independence from other state actors. In the context of state-owned entities, the power-use hypothesis of standard resource dependence theory can be used to analyze the dependence of SOEs on other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
a strange human tendency to value effort independent of outcome," says Norton. "If you appear to be working hard and sweating, people will assume you are doing a good job." There's an app for that Buell and Norton put that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
productivity that counts. Don't work harder, work smarter." With a turnover ratio only a third of that in the United States, Europe has some catching up to do. The fault, however, is not with the continent's level of liquidity,... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner