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  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

the International Economy, edited by Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and Craig Parsons, 227-239. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010 Purchase the book: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5625 Government and Markets: Toward a New View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

income tax rates remain well above the zero level recommended by theory. Moreover, some of theory's more subtle prescriptions, such as taxes that involve personal characteristics, asset-testing, and history-dependence, remain rare in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory Author:Michael Beer Publication:In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Emerald Group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones Abstract—This article... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29

involves designing, launching, and managing teams. And yet teams are fickle. Even as teams become more common at all levels of organizations, a shocking number of them fail to live up to their potential or even to deliver at all. Teams... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

Cole, and Jeremy Tobacman Publication:Journal of Marketing Research 48 (October 2011) Abstract Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of new financial products. Lack of experience with financial products, low View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

thinking about CSR and the privately optimal level of such activities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-091.pdf Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing Authors: Kristina McElheran... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

leaders from Harvard Business School who discuss theory with practices from the world's top corporations to show how businesses, NGOs and government organizations can use business solutions to add social value to the world's poorest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

complex "system of systems"-or array-project. Organizations cope with complexity by decomposing a project into different levels of systems integration with clearly defined interfaces and buffers between View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck

taught many of our alums, Professor Clay Christensen, member of the MBA class of 1979, and a 1992 DBA grad. In addition to his teaching, Professor Christensen has written several influential business books, including The Innovator's Dilemma, which introduces the View Details
  • 18 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

labeling conventions—representing, in the words of the authors, "an exercise in linguistics, not economics." Like Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concluded that concepts like time and distance depend on one's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

are skewed disproportionately amongst the rich, as the evidence suggests, then poorer matching in the marriage market will in turn lead to weaker bargaining positions for females. I test this theory and examine its implications for later... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

individual and organizational capabilities and presents the theory and research on deep smarts. The six most universally found characteristics of this particular kind of expertise are deep domain knowledge, pattern recognition–based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

prospection during commuting reported higher levels of job satisfaction in comparison to multiple control groups. Although commuting is typically seen as the least desirable part of an employee’s day, our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

and persuasive. However, little is known about the downsides of using too much entertainment. This research focuses on why, when, and how much to entertain consumers in TV advertisements. We collected data in a large-scale field study using 82 ads with various View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call

part of a team that is decentralizing the OUSD’s budgeting process. She is also performing analyses and reviews of special-education expen-ditures and policies regarding the closing or consolidation of school sites. Observes Epps, “Leadership and high View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services