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  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

shared about 640 now-documented good practices. In 2007, the strategic importance of saving time in a decentralized organization through adoption of colleagues' good practices was put to a test. Should the knowledge management tools be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

economic decentralization and broke what remained of the bank into small pieces. By 1950, facing a proposal from leading German bankers to allow the big banks to begin reconstituting themselves, the Allied powers and the new German... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two effects generated variation in revenues per capita at the state level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

organization, which focus on decentralizing and externalizing R&D, as well as revamping the resource allocation process to parallel more of a venture capital-based model. The case also explores the views of Christoph Westphal on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

intuition for the basic economic forces in this decentralized market through a series of examples that sequentially build on each other layering on the particular fees and collateral requirements commonly levied in short-selling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the book: http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=145499 Is Decentralization Helping the Lagging Regions? Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Ejaz Ghani, and Saurabh Mishra Publication:In The Poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

examine whether centralized hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to better employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

conducted business in 120 countries—had shared about 640 now-documented good practices. In 2007, the strategic importance of saving time in a decentralized organization through adoption of colleagues' good practices was put to a test.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

and situates land policy in the larger context of China’s reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the institutions that permit land expropriation—namely, urban/rural dualism, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

posed by greater decentralization not only in health care but in other settings as well. "Some services that we have thought of as commodities actually have subtle features that make them differentiated," he says. "Ultimately, the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

San Francisco–based startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to preserve Shift’s current business model and grow through geographic expansion. Another option was to decentralize more tasks to sellers and/or buyers, for example,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2012
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Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

spent enormous sums, but without getting significant commercial returns. " Today, in-house funding at large corporations still makes up more than half of private-sector R&D expenditures. But in reaction to the decline in results, many companies have either... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14

level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We end by running instrumental variable estimates using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

an effective set of choices. Balancing search and stability, the authors argue, is a central challenge of organizing. They explore this challenge with an agent-based simulation that shows (1) how a change in organizational structure, for example, a shift from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization and business unit... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 07 Feb 2005
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How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

employers, Baxter and Abbott. For example, Termeer structured Genzyme, like Baxter, as a highly decentralized organization with many mini-general management positions; in fact, for several years, some Genzyme divisions were so autonomous,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

launched major changes in its R&D organization, which focus on decentralizing and externalizing R&D, as well as revamping the resource allocation process to parallel more of a venture capital-based model. The case also explores... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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