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  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations-using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics-for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22

social capital theory and techniques developed in social network analysis to measure a director's connectedness and investigate whether this connectedness is associated with their compensation level and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

isolate the effects of channel expansion. We argue for advantages to using zip code level data for methodological and consumer data privacy reasons. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-043.pdf Multinational Firms, FDI... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these proximate subsidiaries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

long-term engagement and explore the impact of giving self-service consumers the option to interact with a person. Participants engaged in an online investing simulation who are made to feel anxious due to market downturns are less satisfied with their choices and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

template; and (3) pause before elaborating the activity system. The insights from our framework contribute to research on optimal distinctiveness and to the learning and evolutionary-adjustment literature on search. More broadly, we blend organization View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial organization posit that integration, while costly, increases productivity. It follows... 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
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

that a decision maker may use in a multiattribute decision problem. In addition, it may be used to tailor the utility elicitation process to the comfort level of the decision maker. The new conditions, and the corresponding functional... 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
  • 25 Nov 2013
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Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

Academy of Management's Organization and Management Theory Division and Organizational Behavior Division. "First the embeds were quietly shown 'better ways' of accomplishing tasks by their peers-a 'ton of little tricks' that 'kept... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 05 Feb 2007
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Business and the Global Poor

argued that without this profit, businesses targeting the poor will not attract the level of investment necessary to be sustainable or scaleable across the entire BOP. According to this view, above-average profitability should be seen as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

the founder is still in control of the board of directors and/or the CEO position are significantly less valuable than those in which the founder has given up control. On average, each additional level of founder control (i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

corporate social responsibility, and CEO leadership. This collection captures Porter's unique ability to bridge theory and practice. Each of the articles has not only shaped thinking, but also redefined the work of practitioners in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

discuss how they define creativity, the kinds of questions they have addressed, theories they have proposed, and they provide a description of their research including the most interesting empirical results it has produced. The chapters... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially, the characteristics of the political and economic elite help explain the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

Alexander, Tatyana Deryugina, and Julian Reif Abstract—Economic theory suggests that demand is more elastic in the long run relative to the short run, but evidence on the empirical relevance of this phenomenon is scarce. We study the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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