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  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

development. We then develop a contingency framework for measuring results, suggesting that some organizations should measure long-term impacts, while others should focus on shorter-term outputs and outcomes. In closing, we discuss the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

unit to the next. One dimension along which a unit of output can vary-a dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer to whom it is delivered. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

have been impossible to create only a few years before. However, in 2014, both Apple and Google announced features in their new mobile operating systems that collected and displayed output from various health-wearables (like heart-rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

consistent with the aversion seen in some EU 15 countries. Alfaro: Overall, other countries can look to Slovakia as a model of what might happen when a flat tax is adopted, as this example illustrates several aspects. The overall economic performance has improved: Real... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

one-year coaching engagement and the outputs from it, including her pre-coaching self-reflection, agreed-upon purpose and outcomes, 360 feedback, the coach’s advice to her, an in-depth coach’s final report, and Lane’s one-pager of lessons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

preferred ways. The price of output is a crucial determinant of this choice, since it affects the size of the pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs increase domestic product prices, this effect... 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
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches the outputs of these two production systems. The company has also built extensive expertise in accessing the many mortgage and funding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

power plants were financed with long-term fixed price contracts for both inputs (gas supply) and outputs (and electricity purchase). More recently, "merchant plants" were financed without the benefit of long-term contracts,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an impact, what will it take and how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

lasting difference in the world. Distinctive aspects of his career included deep engagement with the world of practice, combination of experience with disciplinary insight to generate practically valuable intellectual capital, research View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

process does not push the firms to make increasingly convergent output choices, but rather causes those choices to diverge slowly. Finally, we identify situations where the firm with the less accurate mental model outperforms the firm... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

BRIC-Brazil, Russia, India, and China. These four countries encompassed almost 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school in the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

onto your team can actually minimize the pressure associated with the team's output being evaluated. I mentioned that one of the reasons performance pressure is so stressful is the team's awareness that their end product will be judged;... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

extensions, signals). The resulting organizational communication patterns can lead to highly productive and highly collaborative environments by making both the practices of knowledge work and its outputs more visible. Drawing on case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

that firms focusing on a particular task—at either a divisional or firm level—experience higher output and productivity with respect to that task than unfocused firms. After controlling for selection, scale, and learning effects, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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