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- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. In this paper we investigate whether greater product market competition increases decentralization. For example, tougher competition may make local manager's information more valuable, as...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
continuous challenge and "intellectual confrontation." Students will consider JPL's strategy and constraints, measurable technical risks, non-measurable external risks, and societal pressures in making a decision about whether to launch or View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
is at a crossroads as it is facing much more competition. Adding to Dorsey's challenges, in late 2008 the economy is in crisis and many Echoing Green supporters are reducing or delaying their donations. In this situation, Dorsey has to...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
condition, made chocolate more flavorful, valuable, and deserving of behavioral savoring. Experiment 2 demonstrated that random gestures do not boost consumption like ritualistic gestures do. It further showed that a delay between a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
stock price is suffering because of delayed and disappointing results. Removing the controller, however, is proving difficult because he is related to the company's founder. What approaches can the investor take to deal with the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
costs, fossil fuel prices, possible regulatory or other delays in constructing the reactors, and possible future restrictions on carbon dioxide. CEO Jim Rogers believes that nuclear power makes sense from a social standpoint but must also...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
firms would organize to fund the deal following a successful bid. The plaintiffs asked the court to delay the shareholder vote on the merger to solicit additional bidders. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
G. GoldbergHarvard Business School Case 310-086 Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
effect. In general, as the delay between order completion and delivery increases, we find that the same customers spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
this platform needs to be. We were surprised by how many firms pay inadequate attention to this area, causing major problems. Consider the Airbus 380, which had been delayed for 2 years, in part because 2 partners used different versions...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
However it proved necessary to adopt policies that would allow employers to safely delay hiring and coordinate on using the clearinghouse. The market for gastroenterologists provides a case study of market failures, the way a centralized...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
disruptive to its drug development efforts and delay new drugs coming to market. UK politicians expressed concerns over downsizing and job losses in the economically important pharmaceutical sector. The case allows readers to explore who...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
to get their daily YouTube fix. But does forbidding this distraction actually increase productivity? In this paper, researchers find that the answer is no—and that delaying gratification actually has a negative impact on employee...
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- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
to strategically delay providing the service. Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract— An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of the Nano, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
imminent. ViaGen CEO Mark Walton needs to develop different business plans to commercialize cloning technology in pigs, cattle, and horses, all of which have a different industry structure. At the same time, he must consider what to do if the announcement is View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
now, the medical record resides with providers, and one provider can request the record from another. That is a very cumbersome and inefficient system, which creates delay and duplication. Health plans should also inform and advise...
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- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
delay implementation of the Rule in response to the Business Roundtable challenge. We also examine intra-day returns and find that the value loss occurred just after the SEC's announcement on October 4. We find similar results on July 22,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
transportation system. Like cars and taxis, PRT vehicles carried small groups—often just a single passenger—with no need to wait for a shared vehicle to arrive or for others to board. Yet PRT followed train systems in using an exclusive right of way that avoided View Details
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Martha Lagace