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  • February 2020
  • Article

The Many Minds Problem: Disclosure in Dyadic vs. Group Conversation

By: Gus Cooney, Adam M. Mastroianni, Nicole Abi-Esber and Alison Wood Brooks
What causes people to disclose their preferences or withhold them? Declare their love for each other or keep it a secret? Gossip with a coworker or bite one’s tongue? We argue that to understand disclosure, we need to understand a critical and often overlooked aspect... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure; Interpersonal Communication; Behavior
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Cooney, Gus, Adam M. Mastroianni, Nicole Abi-Esber, and Alison Wood Brooks. "The Many Minds Problem: Disclosure in Dyadic vs. Group Conversation." Special Issue on Privacy and Disclosure, Online and in Social Interactions edited by L. John, D. Tamir, M. Slepian. Current Opinion in Psychology 31 (February 2020): 22–27.
  • 2008
  • Book

Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Operations; Performance; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy
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Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage. Harvard Business Press, 2008.
  • 2003
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Development of the Cluster Concept—Present Experiences and Recent Developments

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This review presents an overview of the current research on clusters and cluster-based economic development. It is organized in three parts: First, it takes a look at the conceptual foundations of the cluster approach, discussing the definition of clusters, the... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Development Economics; Performance; Framework; Knowledge Sharing; Policy
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Ketels, Christian H.M. "The Development of the Cluster Concept—Present Experiences and Recent Developments." Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Dusseldorf, Germany, December 2003.
  • 08 Feb 2022
  • News

The ‘Do-Gooder’s Dilemma’: Why Purpose-Driven Companies Can’t Lose Focus On Profits

    Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the limits of less-hierarchical organizing

    Fascination with organizations that eschew the conventional managerial hierarchy and instead radically decentralize authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in... View Details

    • 24 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

    allot a 15 percent differential between theoretical and practical capacity to allow for downtime due to maintenance, repair, and scheduling fluctuations. A more systematic approach, perhaps, is to review... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
    • September 2016
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    Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making

    By: Max Bazerman and Ovul Sezer
    In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the perpetrators were surrounded by people who could have recognized the misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics
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    Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer. "Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 136 (September 2016): 95–105.

      Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990-2015

      This work leverages the strengths of expert human assessments of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) included in Cochrane reviews with data science techniques to build a comprehensive database on biomedical research quality. The data links the full-text and... View Details

      • 2015
      • Chapter

      What Is Regional Strategy? Lessons from Business Strategy

      By: Christian H.M. Ketels
      Regional policy, especially in Europe, makes increasing reference to the notion of strategy, a conceptual tool developed in the area of business studies. This chapter reviews some key aspects of strategy as defined by the so-called "positioning school" and discusses... View Details
      Keywords: Competitiveness; Regional Policy; Strategic Planning; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Policy
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      Ketels, Christian H.M. "What Is Regional Strategy? Lessons from Business Strategy." Chap. 3 in Strategies for Shaping Territorial Competitiveness, edited by Jesus M. Valdaliso and James R. Wilson, 37–54. New York, NY: Routledge, 2015.
      • 03 Feb 2009
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      First Look: February 3, 2009

      Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
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      "I Read Playboy for the Articles": Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences

      When people behave in ways that might appear selfish, prejudiced or perverted, they engage a host of strategies designed to justify questionable behavior with rational excuses: “I hired my son because he’s more qualified.” “I promoted Ashley... View Details
      • April 2023
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      Inattentive Inference

      By: Thomas Graeber
      This paper studies how people infer a state of the world from information structures that include additional, payoff-irrelevant states. For example, learning from a customer review about a product’s quality requires accounting for the reviewer’s otherwise irrelevant... View Details
      Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Information Types; Behavior; Knowledge Acquisition
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      Graeber, Thomas. "Inattentive Inference." Journal of the European Economic Association 21, no. 2 (April 2023): 560–592.
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      Learning Organizations

      David A. Garvin is studying how companies pursue improvement and change through efforts to stimulate organizational learning. He has found the following activities to be common in learning organizations: intelligence gathering; experimentation; learning from... View Details

      • 11 Jul 2007
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      Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View

      Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
      • February 2024
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      Archetypes of Product Launch by Insiders, Outsiders, and Visionaries

      By: Shane Greenstein
      What archetypes emerge from prominent episodes of product launches? This essay examines a set of episodes in information technology history that led to significant changes in industry leadership. It highlights that, in all of these instances, there is an example of a... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Leadership; Market Entry and Exit
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      Greenstein, Shane. "Archetypes of Product Launch by Insiders, Outsiders, and Visionaries." Special Issue on Knowledge Resources and Heterogeneity of Entrants within and across Industries. Industrial and Corporate Change 33, no. 1 (February 2024): 216–237.
      • 2018
      • Book

      Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World

      By: Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier
      In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained... View Details
      Keywords: History; Research; Global Range
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      Beckert, Sven and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
      • 2007
      • Chapter

      Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and TruePoint in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial Goals

      By: Michael Beer and Niclas Adler
      The gap between theory and practice has been of concern to both practitioners and academics, yet other than pleas to close the gap with more accessible writing by academics and more interest in research by practitioners few systematic efforts have been made to close... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Knowledge Management; Management; Goals and Objectives; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Improvement; Practice; Research and Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Theory; Value; United States
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      Beer, Michael, and Niclas Adler. "Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and TruePoint in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial Goals." In Handbook of Collaborative Management Research, edited by A. B. Shani, N. Adler, N. Mohrman, W. A. Pasmore, and B. Stymne. Sage Publications, 2007.
      • 19 May 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

      Business Review piece argued that options are an expense, plain and simple, and should be accounted for in that way. In this excerpt, the authors address what they call a fallacy: that expensing options will hurt young businesses.... View Details
      Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton
      • 10 Feb 2009
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      First Look: February 10, 2009

      role of economic, geographic, and demographic factors, I find that poorer areas have significantly higher levels of conflict intensity. The paper reviews the various approaches taken by governments to deal with conflict, contrasting... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

        From HBSP: " In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their... View Details
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