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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
still had to justify its existence through profits. He hired the best engineers available, yet expected them to run their areas of responsibility with commercial acumen as "ordinary businessmen." He despised cartels and gained a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
gained a dominant position in Internet search and advertising, and what Microsoft has done so far in its as-yet-unsuccessful effort to catch up with Google. The case then challenges students to construct a strategy that will allow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
Want to gain more respect at the office? Consider wearing red sneakers to work. OK, so maybe it's not quite that cut-and-dried. But recent research does find that people who wear offbeat clothes in a professional setting are often... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
with positional power over team members reactively followed up on a single communication when their attempt to communicate the existence of a threatening discrepant event failed, and they determined that a second communication was needed to enable its joint... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
average patient of medium severity in this ED. We propose that the improved performance comes from a reduction in social loafing and a more distributed utilization of shared resources. These benefits outweigh the expected efficiency gains... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
won't invest until there is sufficient demand, or a large installed base, but demand won't arise until there is an ample supply of key inputs," he explains. "In our setting, government green-building procurement policies can stimulate private-sector building... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. The optimal policy increases the probability that low-income children move up the economic ladder, generating a present-value welfare gain of 1.28% of consumption in our baseline case.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Asian Agri appeared well positioned to capitalize on the growing palm oil market, but the broad-strokes vilification of the palm oil industry was a source of serious concern. In the face of great uncertainty, the management team needed to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
process itself can actually shape the realized strategy of the firm. This can include internal reporting structures and incentive systems, but it can also reflect external factors such as capital markets and customers. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
below the poverty line. But this varied from less than 10 percent in the capital Kathmandu to more than 50 percent in several districts. Nepal is very diverse socially as well. One of our innovations over much of the existing literature... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
familiarity, i.e., individuals' prior shared work experience, may help explain this difference, as familiar teams may be more effective than unfamiliar teams at using the knowledge gained from the concurrent completion of multiple tasks.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
tax savings. We find that 2,281 top executives strategically realized their built-in capital gains prior to the tax hikes to save nearly $741 million in personal taxes in 2012. These executives also (1) make... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
and challenges created by digital technology and describe some of the most pressing policy issues. As digital technologies continue to gain in momentum and importance, it has become clear that digitization has features that do not fit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
emerge, control and protect one or more strategic bottleneck, and prevent others from gaining control of any system-wide strategic bottleneck. I use this framework to understand how IBM initially succeeded with the PC platform and then... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry; and they can succeed in economic, social, and... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm behavior; second, that firms notice and imitate the behaviors of firms from the same prior industry; and third, that as firms gain experience with particular features, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
reviews from Yelp.com, we construct an adjusted average rating and show that even a simple algorithm can lead to large information efficiency gains relative to the arithmetic average. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne