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- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions and thus waste money and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
initial evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and well-being, these data offer one potential path to sustainable happiness: prosocial spending increases happiness, which in turn encourages prosocial spending.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
verbal communication, the complexity in the narrative impacts the market reaction to the disclosure. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2154948 Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
managers responsible for stewarding brands. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138786837/ April 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
a consequence Apple continues to find pressure on its prices, which makes it harder for them to sustain a big premium over time. This is why Apple has barely generated any real profits out of its core Mac business in the last three years.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
the company's direction in many locations over a long period. Peter Sands at Standard Chartered Bank worked with his immediate leadership team to define the bank's values and strategic direction and then engaged his top 300 staff in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
piping. Standard welfare economics teaches us that either subsidies or Pigouvian fines can solve that problem, but both solutions are problematic when institutions are weak. Subsidies lead to waste and corruption; fines lead to extortion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Douglas S. Fearing Publication:Transportation Science (forthcoming) Abstract When air traffic demand is projected to exceed capacity, the FAA implements Traffic Flow Management programs. Independently, these programs maintain a first-scheduled, first-served invariant,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
questions: How do men construct masculine identity in high-hazard workplaces that emphasize safety and effectiveness, and what organizational features support and sustain these efforts? To address these questions, we studied offshore oil... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
its restrictions on the carriage of distant signals into the top 100 markets. After much debate, in 1972 the FCC issued standards for the number of broadcast station signals that should be available in a community. Cable operators were... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
is a precondition for sustained innovation in universities. By any comparative measure of leading international universities, faculty in Chinese institutions have little role in governance. It was not a good sign when China's vice... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509034 Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability (C) Harvard Business School Case 609-086 This case is a follow-up to "Mistry Architects: Innovating for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
differences between putting for par and birdie and performance under pressure. Read the paper: http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol7/iss1/5/ Scanning the Commons? Evidence on the Benefits to Startups Participating in Open Standards Development... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
mechanical watchmaking industry had rematerialized to become the world’s leading exporter (in monetary value) of watches. This study reveals the process and mechanisms associated with technology reemergence, i.e., the resurgence of substantive and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
We find clear evidence that (1) bonuses enhance productivity, (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high productivity of the best performers even after attaining quotas, and (3) sales people exhibit present bias consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne