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  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

historically, only government-subsidized products have achieved widespread adoption. A recent contractual innovation, which links insurance payouts to realized weather rather than farmer indemnity, has spurred substantial research in the past decade. This review begins... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and mobile apps that reps can view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Innovation as P&G’s Key

returns standpoint?” The P&G experience in expanding consumer research in developing countries is especially fascinating for global brand managers. — Sean Silverthorne View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

differences disappear when callers mention a benchmark price for the repair. Finally, we find that repair shops are more likely to offer a price concession if asked to do so by a woman than a man. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Experiment of On-the-job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

cross-gender touching before beginning an exam. White’s story — part autobiography, part call to action — is a compelling and often uncomfortable read about a hidden world where even the most compassionate and egalitarian caregivers often fail a basic command of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance
  • 20 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way

Harvard Business School faculty on how to get out of your own way. A Good Place to Start Reflecting on Work Improves Job PerformanceResearch by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

Research released recently by iseecars.com seems to indicate a fleeting happiness with luxury cars. New buyers of BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche sell them more frequently in the first year than owners of other models.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto; Retail; Fashion
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated merchants: price discrimination and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

Despite recent advances in our understanding of how locations impact the creation and appropriation of value by firms, the speed of these changes has often surpassed the speed of research on the connections between geography and firms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

shape important outcomes in organizations, such as individual stress and well-being, intergroup conflict, performance, and change. By providing a way to investigate patterns of relationships among multiple identities, the identity network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

  PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision making. We posit that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected inflation, the "nominal-real covariance" of inflation, and the real interest rate with the real economy. The last of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

replacement of physical assets by digital technologies. But a bigger and more impactful trend, according to researchers Frank V. Cespedes and Amir Peleg, is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid fixed-income assets to maturity, and they rely on deposit insurance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 7, 2015

product developers is a mindset. Western designers, who usually create products by following time-tested methods, struggle to overcome the constraints and leverage the freedoms of emerging markets. They tend to fall into common mental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

find that involuntary closures are most frequent in U.S. counties with high rates of households headed by single mothers, low levels of college education, high rates of property crime, a strong presence of multi-market vs. local banks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Robots in the Boardroom

Steamships, electricity, the railroad, airplanes, the internet—technology and business have always been intertwined. Now a new tech revolution is pushing forward as organizations figure out how to use artificial intelligence to help them make faster, smarter, and more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne