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- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
including working- and middle-class Americans, are struggling, as are many small businesses. The single biggest thorn in the economy’s side: our dysfunctional political system. While many political leaders individually agree with the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
information, revealing too much can benefit individuals but hurt businesses. Why Managers Should Reveal Their FailuresIf you want to get your messages through to employees, be ready to confess your own management shortcomings. The Right... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether shifting focus onto time can salvage individuals' ethicality. We found that implicitly activating the construct of time, rather than money,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
Second, to the extent most proposals would offer a government plan as one option among many, the scale achieved by the government plan would result from individuals selecting it over a private plan. If such a selection process leads to a... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
modularity does not happen by accident; it has to be designed into the system. You have to invest in the architecture and interfaces among modules and test performance at the modular level. The whole system has to work, as do the View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
that the temptation for individuals and organizations to take steps that benefit themselves, rather than the broader social good, is universal and minimizing that danger. Q: When governments do attempt to spur venture capital and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
social insurance, bankruptcy law, disaster relief, and so forth) have been studied extensively on an individual basis. What struck me, however, was that no one had ever looked across these policies and identified what they had in common.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
while commuting to work influences work outcomes. Across two field studies and one field experiment, we find that individuals higher in trait self-control are less likely to report negative effects of longer commutes. While commuting,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
excessively beholden to chief executive officers. Regulation and the use of the legal system have been the predominant means of disciplining directors, but each has its drawbacks, particularly in terms of the disincentives they create for qualified View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
being raised by an employed mother, relates to men's and women's employment and domestic outcomes. Our analyses rely on national level archival data and individual level survey data collected as part of the International Social Survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
elaborate a definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition builds on the analytical success of previous approaches while enabling the analysis of business models through the analysis of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
those products and services to match the specific interests and desires of individual people in diverse societies around the world. They could create solutions enabling people to cope with and leverage the exploding volume of information... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
and we're seeing some real heroes in our public health system, too. Once we get beyond the individual heroics, however, we should be quite concerned about breakdowns of protocol in the nation's hospitals. Ironically, part of the problem... View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
oversee the ongoing business. Private-equity directors typically spend more time with their companies after the buyout than many of their public company counterparts. Private-equity boards are typically small working groups composed of View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
into account the legitimate interests of employees, creditors, communities, and other non-shareholder constituencies), which shareholder components are directors supposed to be representing and to which components are they supposed to be accountable: Institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they consider workforce reductions; the other on the overall effects of layoffs. Case studies on View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
individual tastes, they will migrate away from hit products. He thought companies should therefore stop relying on blockbusters and focus on the profits to be made from the "long tail"-niche offerings that cannot be offered... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
we show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are largely determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge behaviors as less... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the broader society. By focusing on a descriptive rather than a normative approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne