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  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

innovations that can be freely adopted by many firms. Firm-level volatility is affected primarily by the Schumpeterian dynamics associated with the development of R&D innovations. On the other hand, the variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

race tracks, interactive tombstones, and stride-changing running shoes. These four products form the basis to assess the drivers of new product adoption. In particular, one of the critical tasks in marketing new innovations is predicting demand and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

shielded them from responsibility. The lack of performance standards related directly to the organization's inability to deal with conflict. Many managers could not abide open conflict in meetings. Disagreements over issues were... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

products that generate greater disagreement among the employees are likely to have less-accurate forecasts. Get the product testing right. An impressive 78 % of the retailers in our study test new products in a few stores before the... View Details
Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs at the rate that we need. The... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

improvement collaboration. The results support our hypothesis that learn-how is positively related to organizational performance, as measured by NICUs' risk-adjusted mortality rates for 1,061 infant patients. Moreover, our data reveal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment (unlike self-assessment) offers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-098.pdf On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and Scholars Gone Wild Authors:Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract In this article, we define good scholarship, highlight our points... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

counterparts. In most countries, firms have become less diversified over time. However, there is no such trend in China. The level of diversification of Chinese enterprises does not vary over our study period (2001-2005), making Chinese firms the most diversified in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

corporate tax code? Because the IRS wanted loopholes? No, because businesses pleaded for loopholes that benefited them. MP: And legislators saw a great way to get campaign contributions. Q: What reaction have you heard from the business community? MP: Very little View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this microprocess research. Analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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