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- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
By using a modified dictator game, we assessed sharing behavior and beliefs about others in children between 3 and 12 years old. We performed four studies (N = 376) aimed to assess whether decisions were related to beliefs (Studies 1 and 2) and whether information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
should your employees be to helping each other? Are they sharing responsibility for your company's success? (7) What strategic uncertainties keep you awake at night? How are you riveting everyone's attention on those uncertainties? These questions View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
above and beyond first-nature driven geographic concentration due to market size, comparative advantage, and trade costs. Second-nature forces including knowledge spillovers, capital-market externalities, and vertical production linkages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
to globalization, a second force enabling marketing to bring good quality to the masses is technology. Today, the Internet, supported like most of the diverse media that preceded it by brand advertising rather than subscription, is... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
years. We argue that the current world economic conjuncture is the product of a large and unusual divergence or "wedge" between the returns on capital and the cost of capital. Globalization—in particular the integration of the massive Asian labor View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Publications April 2015 Harvard Business Review How to Really Motivate Salespeople By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
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
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
lawyers inevitably start to keep work to themselves as the firm navigated an ever-more competitive environment? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-097 Singapore Metals Limited Singapore Metals Limited (SML) has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
coming, and entered services. If you look at the store today, almost a third of PetSmart's sales are in services, things like grooming or hoteling—those sales aren't going away, they are not threatened by... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
interviews with executives and officials around the globe, Vietor provides concentrated examinations of different approaches to government facilitation of development. Individual chapters focus on the unique social, economic, cultural, and historical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
basically the same things, which forced the two firms to compete for suppliers. 87 Ford and GM also had disparate styles and software, which made it very difficult for suppliers to streamline their systems. To solve these problems, Ford,... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
framework.) The window of opportunity, if you wish, is even larger than it might appear. More specifically, the purchase or sale of whole bodies—not parts—is absent from the Act's provision. Second, the purchase and View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing By: Rosenzweig, Stav, Amir Grinstein, and Elie Ofek Abstract—The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet advertising. "The proposed... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
"When Values Backfire: Leadership, Attribution, and Disenchantment in a Values-Driven Organization." "Our research shows that values must be managed with care," Cha and Edmondson say. Below, they join forces for an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
may respond to this additional uncertainty by purchasing more products, thereby generating additional sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment (VoC). We develop a model of consumer choice that is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
deployable, as TaKaDu engineers were spending up to two months implementing the system per client. Peleg also wondered if the company should continue to pursue sales leads from anywhere in the world or focus on one geographic market (and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
the "Big Owe." It took that city 30 years to repay the municipal debt—$1.5 billion in 1976 dollars, or more than $6 billion today. Sometimes "building new urban infrastructure" is a justification for hosting the Games, but this is more of a View Details