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- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
therefore, had to choose which group to target as this would dictate future product development efforts. With the planned launch date quickly approaching, the target market selected also impacted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
Wal-Mart must decide whether to expand the retailer's selection of organic food. The decision is made in the context of wider attempts to move the giant retailer slightly upscale and to focus on environmental sustainability. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
uses the K-means clustering technique to identify groups of customers who have purchased any number of 32 specific “deals” Booth offered over the year, differentiated by the wine varietal as well as its country of origin and a minimum... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
all three of the creativity components in selecting people and assigning them to projects. First, of course, expertise is important — talent and skill, experience and training. Unfortunately, that's sometimes all that we consider. We need... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
attributes in online search interfaces changes the valuations of those attributes—and impacts subsequent choice—such that attributes that are displayed as separate categories tend to receive greater decision weight than attributes grouped... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
capitalization of firms in their coverage portfolio. Our results hold after Regulation Fair Disclosure, suggesting that these relationships are not based on selective disclosure. Overall, the evidence shows both the importance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
the interests of select stakeholders. By giving managers and entrepreneurs a "second bite at the apple" if they take reasonable risks that turn our poorly, Chapter 11 also encourages risk taking. This is the genius of the US... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
selects among potential SSOs and how the final standard is shaped by the sponsor's and SSO's design. Sara Grant: In your paper, "Certifying New Technologies," it appears that things are becoming a lot more complicated when it... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous to unobservable factors, and selection makes it challenging to disentangle the effect of workplace context on individual career advancement. We work around this problem by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
selection and gradual learning regarding the entrepreneurial earnings process. The model accurately fits entry patterns into self-employment by age. The option value of returning to paid work is found to constitute a substantial portion... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
aeronautic plant, I demonstrate how an implicitly negotiated leniency between management and workers around the use of company materials and tools, on company time, to produce artifacts for personal use, enhances workers' identities. This leniency applies to a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
well-to-do families was no lower, and in some cases was higher than for more well-to-do filers. Also, more than 63% of the treatment group savers were individuals who could be deemed to be "asset poor." Bond buyers were more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
(“Roland Garros”) for a record tenth time. Krajicek’s plan for the upcoming edition was to focus his recruiting efforts on five exciting, mostly younger, players, and assemble a group of top-20 players around them—but after Nadal’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
They include some of the country's largest cities, including Boston, Chicago, Memphis, and San Francisco. Based on a rigorous selection process, the Harvard team invited the districts because each had a performance-improvement strategy... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007
provider, health plan, and reimbursement structure. Following new legislation in 2004, which allowed health plans and selected providers to contract outside of the regular group purchasing scheme, KKH and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
profitability, Japan introduced the JPX400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. Index-inclusion incentives led firms to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
challenges inherent in cross-boundary teaming: research on team effectiveness and research on knowledge in organizations. They offer complementary insights: the former stream focuses on group dynamics and measures team inputs, processes,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
suggest important strategic considerations for managers selecting supplier factories and provide key insights for the design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
(their dual identity) might prove both a blessing for attracting many diverse members and a curse for achieving desired outcomes. Originality/Value: More broadly, our results suggest that dual identity organizations might attract members focused on a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne