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- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
marketers as "post-purchase dissonance" and "buyer's regret." He maintains that increasingly these are contributors to depression. Catherine Getches, who asks "whatever happened to the generic aisle" in... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
psychological discomfort of dissonance. Similarly, physically cleansing oneself eliminated the relationship between inauthenticity and prosocial compensation. Finally, we demonstrated additional evidence for discriminant validity: these effects were not driven by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
the consumer's name, credit card number or security code because Apple uses a fingerprint reader on its recent iPhones to confirm identities. And when consumers add a credit or debit card with Apple Pay, the card number is not stored by... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
where informal but highly effective relationships may exist, introducing an EHR system might generate formal processes that, at a certain level, become counterproductive. "In large practices, where staff might be less likely to interact... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
firms jump on the new technology bandwagon to the coming of rules and governance. Would you elaborate on that? Spar: Since Professor Chandler has mentioned RCA, let me use that as an example. In 1926, along with General Electric and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as a successful retailer; in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
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
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification of theory within the entrepreneurial resource mobilization... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social and financial goals at the same time. Social enterprises have a great deal of experience dealing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either debt or equity. This paper examines the investor protections included in corporate bylaws that enabled corporations in Brazil to attract investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Lead Times Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik, and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
conditions on sequence memory. In addition, conscious thought appeared to increase intrusion nowness and arousal. Limitations. The analogue design and healthy participant sample prevent from generalizing results to other populations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne