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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
some of the tasks a marketplace needs to accomplish to perform well. In particular, marketplaces work well when they provide thickness to the market, help it deal with the congestion that thickness can bring, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
2007, ports were overcrowded and suffering from delays and ship shortages, which led to high rates that stimulated the over-ordering of ships. The owners greatly underestimated... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion By: Wolf, Elizabeth Baily, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah, and Alison Wood... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
continuous challenge and "intellectual confrontation." Students will consider JPL's strategy and constraints, measurable technical risks, non-measurable external risks, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
ultimately did get out, it went in too many directions and not to those who most needed it. I agreed with that worry. I had, by pure chance, seen articles documenting some of the delays in disbursing funds... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
sites, transfer new product lines, update technologies, etc. Another cost of outsourcing is the cost of inventory. A part might be manufactured cheaply in Mexico, but shipping the part involves inventory, not to mention delays View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
a role that Jack Welch is striving to play in his post-CEO life. Fighting groupthink is probably just as worthy an endeavor as attaining buy in. But what are the risks in fighting groupthink for the leader and his subordinates? What's the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
out on an entrepreneurial path but was thwarted by the country’s lack of a finance and lending infrastructure. A similar shortcoming in the mortgage and lending industry also View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
could to relatives back at home—a process that opened Dyer’s eyes to the ways in which the financial system, with its long delays and steep fees, often winds up being most costly for those who have the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
design and identity before the 9/11 attacks and through three subsequent phases finds that successful changes to organizational identity are likely to be delayed after a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way
join a start-up and the lessons she learned. 1. No pressure, no diamonds.In the cash-strapped environment of a start-up there is pressure to deliver direct results; there's no hiding behind the delayed... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
firms would organize to fund the deal following a successful bid. The plaintiffs asked the court to delay the shareholder vote on the merger to solicit additional bidders. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
is at a crossroads as it is facing much more competition. Adding to Dorsey's challenges, in late 2008 the economy is in crisis and many Echoing Green supporters are reducing or delaying their donations. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. In this paper we investigate whether greater product market competition increases decentralization. For example, tougher competition may make local manager's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Abstract How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in advance differ from decisions made for several days in the future? We use novel panel data from an online grocer to address this question. In general, we find that as the delay... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace