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- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
the puzzle of low adoption, we show that payouts improve trust in the product and that farmers shield payouts from claims by relatives. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commencement 2016 Address | About
Sometimes the students leave these interactions having no idea who this charming, inquisitive Southern gentleman was. Other times, students might ask his name, and he replies simply: “I’m Dick Spangler.” When this happens, you can see the View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
research. For example, the puzzles raised by the Stanley Works case opened up the line of inquiry on the corporate governance role of taxation. The Czech Mate case series prompted an academic paper that frames the lessons from the case on... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
Using data from Boston, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Our results illustrate that policies about precedence, heretofore underexplored, are inseparable from other aspects of admissions policy. Moreover, our findings... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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problem, but no one has any idea what’s going on,” says Hawkins. With that framework, he says, “it’s like a puzzle, and you don’t know how the puzzle pieces go together.” But thanks to recent discoveries, including that powerful discovery... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
moving.” Oishi had watched it all unfold as she built a career as a partner in McKinsey’s consumer goods practice in Tokyo—an almost ideal match for the sort of person who can’t not solve problems. Where some people solve crossword View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
would suggest. However, our analysis also presents some puzzles including, most significantly, evidence of strong employment growth following adoption of dismissal protections. In light of these puzzles, we read our findings as suggestive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
development companies are at work, bringing gigawatts of renewable power online every year. “But there are so many puzzle pieces that many projects die on the vine.” Diana is encouraged by some signs of positive momentum, as regional grid... View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
saying, "there had always been a noisy grandstand of friends and family to applaud success, or the appearance of it, or even boo in a friendly way at failure."7 Auchincloss shows us that despite all the busy, purposeful activity, Tony feels dead inside. This... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
the lives of characters who solve puzzles and evolve over time across books, I’m reading the newest offerings from several favorite novelists and returning to every book in their series that I can find. The late Sue Grafton created Kinsey... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
puzzling and frustrating when I had the sense that our team failed to make the most of everyone's input. As a project manager I had made sure we held a kickoff meeting in the beginning of each new assignment to acknowledge all members'... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
when you're not. And so, if I don't know the answer, I've just learned to say I don't know. And the reality is, there are moments in all of our lives where we just don't know the answer. And I think it's OK to be puzzled with a question... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
Therefore, if we decide in our organizations to employ apprentices as knowledge coaches, we need to be aware of the pieces of the puzzle that the apprentices have experienced and those that are outside their repertoire. The stream of... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
(1942), one of the seminal nonfiction works of the twentieth century.5 The Main Goal Of The 1939 Book Schumpeter chose the title Business Cycles not only because the topic was then fashionable (it was the central economic puzzle of the... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
have a differentially lower response to these perceived benefits. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1590245 Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster Authors:Nelson P. Repenning and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
the company. Sales increased but losses skyrocketed. A&P lost the price war it started, proving only that it could give away the store. The most puzzling aspect of the price war is why A&P initiated it. During 1971, published... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend... View Details