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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
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

systems that place these leaders in positions of power, Indispensable sheds new light on how we may be able to identify the best leaders and what lessons we can learn, from both the process and the result. Profiling a mix of historic and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

in sequence, map onto how very young children play. These components are (1) focusing on substitutes and borrowing selectively from peers, (2) testing assumptions about profit logics before committing to one, and (3) pausing with a loosely connected activity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

Abstract—Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including competitors. A large, successful firm such as Cisco Systems has used... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc.). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

Wasserman Abstract—This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

challenge for the existing theories on upstream capital flows and global imbalances. August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association The New Empirical Economics of Management By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

loopholes, deductions need to be reduced. The right policy is to lower the rate substantially and end most deductions. That's a policy economic theory supports, and almost everybody in the private sector agrees with—though some will lose... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28

2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2

simply using subnational cases to generate or test theories about Chinese politics; instead, they propose that subnational political economies in China are a function of endogenous change rather than a reaction to national priorities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

a syllabus and course outline, and using established educational theory in practical situations. Mom Hacks: 100+ Science-Backed Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Body, Raise Awesome Kids, and Be Unstoppable by Darria Long Gillespie Da Capo... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

race theory to classic sociological questions. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: a project focused on race and organizational theory with the University of Chicago Press and public book on... View Details
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

Moreover, it is unclear whether standard theories about organizational strategy, such as planning, hold true in such environments. We explore these issues using a sample of 730 new ventures in Colombia from 1997 to 2001. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace