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- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
have a higher probability of walking by the clinic for reasons other than vaccination. Method: We obtained data from an employer with a free workplace influenza vaccination clinic. Using each employee’s building entry/exit swipe card... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
financial resources increase the benefits of partner-specific experience. Finally, we predict that the value of partner-specific experience will increase under high levels of firm-specific uncertainty. We test these hypotheses with comprehensive longitudinal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
retailer-initiated feedback loops. Retailers should ask themselves, How do I create a partnership with the consumer? Data collected from these programs can help merchants make smarter decisions on everything from where to open a new store... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
couple of years to start getting traction on the data that has been published. Also, it will require significant investments in research to fill in all the "blank spots" in discovering how genes interact with proteins to govern... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
with the control group answers generally falling in the middle. From a logical Internet privacy viewpoint, the results don't make sense. After all, an amateur website of unknown origins is likely far less concerned with data protection... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
PapersThe Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making Authors:Pablo, F. Casas-Arce, Asís Martínez-Jerez, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of providing forward-looking metrics on employee decision making. We use View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
transitional government under Bizimungu (1994-2000) and the first Kagame government (2000-2004) to restore and build the economy. Rwanda: National Economic Transformation provides detailed economic and social data as of 2004, allowing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
organization is in the early stages of growth and is interested in testing and refining its model in new locations, or a nonprofit has less ambitious, less geographically dispersed expansion plans. In fact, our survey data show that pure... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
program learning. For example, a $4 million transmitter that would have provided data on why the 1999 Polar Lander mission failed as it neared the surface was deemed too costly to include. Yet without this data, it was more likely that a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
of attention, and we use this framework to study the “attentional stability” of common errors and psychological biases. While many costly errors are prone to persist, in some situations a person will recognize her mistakes via “incidental learning”: when the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
performance. Using panel data from the Japanese National Hospital Organization, we analyze performance improvements following regulation requiring standardized measurement and peer disclosure of absolute and relative patient satisfaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
a lower price but charge more for the cartridges necessary to run a sample and earn its primary revenue from these cartridges. The third model would see GenapSys sell its device at or around cost, but use the data customers generated to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
reviews for their competitors. Such review fraud undermines the trustworthiness of consumer reviews and constitutes a major risk factor for review sites. In this paper, we investigate review fraud on the popular consumer review site Yelp. We construct a novel View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
relationship using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The results show social position, both within the field and within the organization, influences actors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
should be able to command more compensation, but never tried to see if that was true. So I decided to collect data on the executives in new ventures and on the ventures themselves, to see what the real story was. My dataset for this... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
"One of the marks of a truly dominant intellectual paradigm is the difficulty people have in even imagining an alternative view." Do you think business scholarship has lost sight of social welfare issues? A: Our data suggest... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
PublicationsDo Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Authors:Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker Publication:Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using rainfall, public relief, and election View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
advertising be effective? If friends influence the purchases of a user in a social network, it could potentially be a significant source of revenue for the sites and their corporate sponsors. Using a unique data set from Cyworld, this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne