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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
approaches to analyzing measurement of digitization. This agenda overlaps with many related open questions in organizational and strategy research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
WOM that is most effective at driving sales is created by less loyal customers, not loyals, and occurs between acquaintances (not friends). We find support for this in the field test as well as in a lab... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
officers spent 30 to 60 minutes with frontline workers involved in the processes of a particular unit. In addition, they held open communication forums related to patient safety. After generating a list of issues from these two... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
firms from the same prior industry; and third, that as firms gain experience with particular features, the influence of prior industry will decrease. Our hypotheses are supported by findings from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
Care (forthcoming) Abstract Background: Teamwork in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in providing high quality patient care. However, the behaviors that comprise effective teamwork, the organizational factors that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with similar ratios. We then build a continuous-time model of investment and merger activity combining search, scarcity, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
activities can be located inside a firm or across firm boundaries. In the latter case, activities may involve customers, suppliers, partners, or other stakeholders. Accompanying the physical value chain is a... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
reinterpretation of ideas related to agency conflicts and a holistic view of corporate financial strategy that examines payout and capital structure decisions jointly. Download... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Nisan-Ronen conjecture, especially given that the classic scheduling algorithms are anonymous, and all state-of-the-art mechanisms for special cases of the problem are anonymous as well. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities-San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on the success rate of venture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
couple of related projects. One, with colleagues Anita Tucker and Ingrid Nembhard, is trying to better understand how the learning activities of improvement project teams—teams... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
environmental ratings and environmental performance of more than 650 firms in the United States. We find empirical evidence that supports our hypotheses and present... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
encouraged to maximize profits, “Then have the boldness to levy taxes on the recipients of dividends to support the stakeholders you favor ” David Weaver reminded us of Prof. Bruce Scott’s belief that “Capitalism works, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
life so that they could print expiration dates on the packages. It turned out the greens lasted only a few days in fiber-based packaging as compared with two weeks or longer in plastic. The fiber acted as a desiccant, drying out the... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati