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- 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5
Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets
responsibility in more developed markets? In this video, Professors Tarun Khanna and Geoffrey Jones discuss a thematic paper using CEM data, published in the Strategic Management Journal in 2017: Overcoming... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism
- 2006
- Working Paper
Too Motivated?
I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Employees; Wages; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Too Motivated?" Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4547-05, April 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
off by disruptive technologies. Critics often argue that Microsoft can't innovate its way out of a paper bag—instead it has used its monopoly position to stamp out competition and force an industry to bend... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
multiple channels can facilitate collective action via redundancy, the sending of the same message along multiple paths or else repeatedly along the same path (Chwe, 1995 and De Jaegher, 2011). This paper... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
C. Edmondson : Awarded the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Service by the Teachers College at Columbia University. Kris Johnson Ferreira : "Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift" with Matthew... View Details
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India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005 (with Anusha Chari)
By: Laura Alfaro
Using firm-level data this paper analyzes, the transformation of India’s economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly-listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
(2012) Abstract This paper summarizes research trends and opportunities in the area of managing air transportation demand and capacity. Capacity constraints View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Handshaking Promotes Cooperative Dealmaking
- 08 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Decoding Inside Information
- 09 Nov 2017
- HBS Seminar
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
you they would pay more than they’re actually willing to pay. They say they would choose something that they don’t actually choose in practice,” says James Brand, an economist for Microsoft, who cowrote the working paper with Israeli... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Learning Effects of Monitoring
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
of rapid technological change. Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael Di Tella Publication:CATO Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011) Abstract We describe the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups
By: M. Valentine and A. C. Edmondson
This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details
Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Performance Efficiency
Valentine, M., and A. C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Organization Science 26, no. 2 (March–April 2015): 405–422.
- March 2013
- Article
The Client Is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations?
By: Michael Firth, Chen Lin, Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates whether the business relations between mutual funds and brokerage firms influence sell-side analyst recommendations. Using a unique data set that discloses brokerage firms' commission income derived from each mutual fund client as well as the... View Details
Firth, Michael, Chen Lin, Ping Liu, and Yuhai Xuan. "The Client Is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations?" Journal of Accounting Research 51, no. 1 (March 2013): 165–200.