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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Protect and Pivot Boris Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. MARKETING Tip: Tailor your brand stories to the new reality. Which types of brand stories should companies tell? After KFC was chastised by the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
worthy of your trust, that they will not only be competent to perform the tasks with which they have been entrusted but will also adhere to high standards and conduct... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
performance. Using panel data from the Japanese National Hospital Organization, we analyze performance improvements following regulation requiring standardized measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of decision making. I develop hypotheses about this tradeoff and test the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Globalization - Faculty & Research
Investment By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
those sales? Should ads be text, images, video, or something else entirely? Should measurement be performed by an ad network, an advertiser, or some intermediary? Market participants have chosen all these options at various points, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
co-authored the working paper, “The Political Polarization of Corporate America,” with Vyacheslav Fos, associate professor at Boston College, and Margarita Tsoutsoura, associate professor at Cornell University. Executive teams are skewing... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
similarly made his mark in sales. Q: What role have salesmen played in the development of America's consumer society? What do you see as the distinction between sales and advertising? A: The entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are more involved in "obligatory" and value creating and control functions than in operational activities; there are no systematic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Curriculum - Business & Environment
KHC/3G's offer undervalued Unilever and its long-term value creation strategy. Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil Key concepts: Impact Investing; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
activity-based costing (TDABC), which combines two basic measures: the cost of each resource used to perform an activity, and the time it takes to perform it. The case... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
other research here , Yueran’s other research here , and Andrei’s other research here . More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
executives embrace the customer’s vantage point and organize their thinking in terms of three layers. The first layer is to articulate the current or standard business model. After all, most startups need to... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
come from diverse sources Chief among the recommendations from Grushka-Cockayne and her colleagues is aggregating several probability forecasts, typically from between five and... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
and decision making? According to new research, there seems to be a link between luxury and self interest, an insight that may help curb corporate excesses. Roy Y.J. Chua of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff