Economies Of Scale - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

how beliefs affect attitudes toward capitalism. In one, he notes that because the economies of poorer countries are often dependent on volatile resources such as oil and minerals (which are often controlled... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

Summing Up What Isn't Off Limits When it Comes to Transparency? The discussion of this month's column on corporate transparency to employees made it clear that we have reached a point at which disclosure of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

Considering how much money is spent in the field and the advances that the US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. Dafny: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

space and development tools in the cloud and scale up as needed rather than purchasing their own expensive hardware and software. By comparing rates of investment before and after AWS was introduced in 2006,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

switch, the more conservative you are. This is a standard risk elicitation method that’s been used in the laboratory countless times now,” Minor says. He then compared the survey results to the investors’ actual portfolio choices. What he found was striking. “Their... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

reclassified as a part of North America, as opposed to Latin America, by CALPERS a few years back, huge amounts of capital are being poured into that country, notably in the housing and retail sectors with... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

clinic for an upfront 45- to 60-minute consultation with a team of caregivers that reviews their physical and mental health, as well as their living situation. Each patient is then rated on a risk scale from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

Tesco shops were replacing independent businesses. "What the politicians did not anticipate was that these large supermarket chains were going to come in anyway, regardless of regulations," Sadun says. "They had reached a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

that they may want to provide a lot of information initially to attract investors in the first place. Then as the platforms mature, they can scale back the amount of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

firepower of large industries at a time when they need aid most, Mills says. “This is a critical moment for small businesses,” she says. “If we lose too many, it will create a long drag on the ability of the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

second-most critical bill overall, and clearly ahead of rent.” For policymakers, the advice is clear: Know that the insurance crisis hasn't quite hit yet, but that it’s coming quickly. Shoring up the economy... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

supply chains, installing ERP (enterprise resource planning systems, as exemplified by SAP), and worrying about Y2K. The threat posed to our economy by Japan and Germany had eased, the stock market was going crazy, and everybody was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

to better pair employees on teams to improve idea quality, according to Koning. Consider team composition. Whether or not they actually administer a personality test, supervisors generally have an idea of where team members fall on View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

these people will end up not owning a lot of the economy because of historical conditions. So there is an equity issue." The Right Mix "I think most governments try... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that trying out a business model on a... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Sure, the price of tulips in the Netherlands skyrocketed to such outlandish heights that one flower sold for the equivalent of several hundred dollars before the market crashed in 1637, taking the Dutch... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

accuracy.) The researchers also hired a team of workers through the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a popular source of data processing assistance. The workers examined the property... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

Economic Activity, Fall, 2011. Charles Kenny, Rethinking the Boosterism About Small Business, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 2011. Rafael La Porta and Andrei Schleifer, The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development, National Bureau... View Details