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  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

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through advertising, simply by informing consumers of a merchant's existence via e-mail. For some merchants, the benefits of offering discount vouchers are sharply reduced if individual customers buy multiple vouchers. As a marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

countries that differ greatly in terms of wealth (Canada, Uganda, and India). Finally, in Study 3, participants in Canada and South Africa randomly assigned to buy items for charity reported higher levels of positive affect than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are managed via websites, social media, and email; marketing,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that managers don't have some control over the internal View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

Sen, and Willy Shih Abstract—Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

and Why? Authors:Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Journal of Transplantation 10 (May 2010): 1221-1227 Abstract The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the number of available kidneys.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10057.html August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Medical City Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Tiona ZuzulHarvard Business School Case 613-022 Describes Lake Nona, a 7,000-acre residential and research cluster in central Florida, and its process and innovation culture, and Lake Nona... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

we put people on the moon. There was this sense that: “Wait a minute, I thought we were going to have space hotels and moon bases.” Instead, the United States was going to have to buy trips for our astronauts to the Space Station from... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

S&G to become the first publicly traded law firm in the world. The firm and its underwriters had just issued a prospectus and were now in the process of lining up investors for the offering. Gloria Rosen, a portfolio manager at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

grown accustomed to the thrill of victory. "This is not what Red Sox fans want to hear," commented sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy. "In Boston the message needs to be 'win now.'" Within a matter of weeks, Epstein had launched an all-star View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

ones the private sector has decided they can’t solve on their own. The problems can be harder and more widespread. Lagace: What is an example of a public startup? Weiss: James Geurts, who started SOFWERX, was responsible for buying and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

exercise (Negotiation Strategy Simulation)—illuminate how through a thoughtful process of probing and testing, a negotiator may determine whether the other party tends to be cooperative or competitive. The material also demonstrates how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

intentional attempt to synthesize, abstract, and articulate the key lessons taught by experience. Drawing on dual-process theory, we focus on the reflective dimension of the learning process and propose that learning can be augmented by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975 to 2002, shows different patterns of adaptation to income across the rich and poor. We find evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher levels of per capita income don't... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

rich and poor. We find evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher levels of per capita income don't buy greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

in which Merrill, BofA, and the government attempted to negotiate the acquisition. This case focuses class discussion on several decisions-whether BofA should have initially agreed to buy Merrill Lynch, whether it should have accepted... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

we find it difficult to identify the tangible benefits delivered by brokers. While brokerage customers are directed toward funds that are harder to find and evaluate, they pay substantially higher fees and the funds they buy have lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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