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  • 13 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

attractive. Why? The reason might be an increasing willingness on the part of consumers to identify with the underdog. In today's economically difficult times, it appears, underdog brands are gaining psychological, and real, power in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

in law. Q: What were your main findings? What do the findings mean for individuals as well as companies and regions? A: We found a sharp drop in the ratio of mobility of Michigan inventors to those in other non-enforcing states after... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

firm can capture from innovation. Building on a number of case studies, this paper presents a simple framework for categorizing different collaborative modes. The framework is based on the notion that there are two critical dimensions along which collaborative efforts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

other banks with common exposures. We show how this contagion effect adds up across the banking sector and how it can be estimated empirically using balance sheet data. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2020
  • Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

and pushed by policy makers both at the national and EU levels. Practical implications—Policymakers must be well informed about geographical concentration patterns of industry. The research offers a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2017
  • News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood. Funded by philanthropists,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

in response to a perceived security threat resulting from the Soviet policy of "Peaceful Coexistence" as well as Soviet misunderstanding and neglect of the anti-colonial revolution. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change, and is a determinant as well of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

has on the acquirer's characteristics, form of payment, announcement returns, long-run stock price, and operating performance. We find that compared to the acquirers of other private companies, firms that acquire private venture capital-backed companies tend to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

whether perceived inequity from wealth that is randomly or subjectively assigned leads individuals to cross ethical boundaries through helping or hurting others. The results show that dishonest behavior is influenced by positive and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

invest according to broadly held environmental and social values, as well as to investors wishing to align their investments with their faith. Should Selim give up a very successful career to compete in a highly competitive business, in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Salary Finance

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In April 2019, Asesh Sarkar, co-founder and chief executive of Salary Finance Limited, a London-based FinTech, faced tough choices. Sarkar had founded Salary Finance with Dan Cobley and Daniel Shakhani in 2015. The company’s value proposition was quite simple: partner... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Financing and Loans; Wages; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry
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  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market-failure models nor public-choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

contribution to employment, I find that labor-intensive firms are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action. Next, I show that labor-intensive firms are less likely to face an SEC enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

systematic is going on. It must have purpose; all the vigorous uploading, posting, commenting, and sharing must be generating results. We claim that the new order is, in fact, rule-governed, and the rules are the rules of play.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

Business School from the 1960s onward marks the decisive ascendancy of economics, and particularly financial economics, in business education over the other behavioral disciplines, as well as the decisive ascendancy of business schools as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman