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- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
made. Each step consists of a set of tasks that individually are minimum rational work elements. These are combined to form the work assignment associated with the step. The work follows the same sequence of operations as it moves down... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
that Invest Early children were better prepared for kindergarten than their low-income counterparts and the proficiency gap between Invest Early and high-income children had decreased significantly. Integrating and sustaining such a complicated network of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
the need to recoup shareholder value after paying a two-times premium for Sirtris with his desire to retain Christoph Westphal, Sirtris's co-founder and CEO, and other key individuals at the company. His desire to protect Sirtris from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating options to improve the system by substituting or experimenting on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by randomly assigning individuals to 90-minute structured information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical applications, materials science, and industrial sectors. Modularity also provided Carl Zeiss engineers the benefit of decoupling the development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
Manage your network. Effective managers know they cannot avoid conflict and competition among organizational groups; they build and nurture ongoing relationships. Manage your team. Team members need to know what's required of them collectively and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four studies indicate the prevalence of implicit voice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
with the most experience and those who have worked most recently-precisely the individuals who would recognize that this is a gift. Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/oDesk.pdf Search Diversion and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" and unpopular "niche" titles is equally distributed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
parties than reliance on financial incentives alone. In particular, many individuals place high value on such character virtues as honesty and integrity for their own sake and are more than willing to sacrifice material gain to maintain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
the German economy, is an open question." As business historians, we need to know more about the managers as living, breathing human beings. What this distinction between owner-entrepreneurs and investors means for individual... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
organization theory, yet several issues that are fundamental to this debate remain controversial. We explore four central tensions here: Should organizations achieve ambidexterity through differentiation or through integration? Does ambidexterity occur at the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
editors, teachers, and individual scholars to act to foster these characteristics. Strategies and Tactics in NGO-Government Relations: Insights from Slum Housing in Mumbai Authors:Ramya Ramanath and Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne