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  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such situations, individuals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

others. For our empirical analyses, we use 10 years of data from 71 cardiothoracic surgeons who completed over 6,500 procedures using a new technology for cardiac surgery. We find that individuals learn more from their own successes than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

The Mitchell Family and Mitchells/Richards Harvard Business School Case 605-047 Describes a small, luxury retail chain's operational sophistication achieved through the use of technology and "high-touch" customer-service. A... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

research. Dorothy Leonard: There are two streams of research that are coming together here. One stream is the research that Brian and I started a couple of years ago: the use of technology in aiding learning processes both face-to-face... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

interdependent system components. (The hypothesis claims a correspondence between organizational structure and technical architecture, but allows causality to flow in either direction.) Scholars in a range of disciplines have argued that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

systems were in need of an update, and since GLBG last made heavy IT investments in the late 1990s, the technology had changed considerably. GLBG sought Rechtin’s advice on whether or not it should build a new data center, pursue a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

of unit culture was also associated with a significantly higher risk of prolonged length of stay (RR 4.13, 95% CI 1.98–8.64), postpartum hemorrhage (RR 2.57, 95% CI 1.58–4.18), and blood transfusion (RR 1.87, 95% CI 1.12–3.13). Proactive management of patient View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

assumptions are present in the structure of technology and labor flows within Silicon Valley and its surrounding areas. Our model further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

spending needs might look at bonds and equities in a very different light: They may value the fact that, regardless of their short-term fluctuations in prices, bonds offer a safe stream of cash flows—their coupons, and their principal at the end of the life of the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating decline. Our results have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Effects of Using Unverifiable Estimates in Financial Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate reporting unit values to determine goodwill write-offs. Those estimates often use unverifiable discounted future... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

push both proprietary and shared platforms toward hybrid governance models characterized by centralized control over platform technology (i.e., closed sponsorship) and shared responsibility for serving users (i.e., an open provider role).... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

that the effect is predominantly driven by innovators located in the states passing the reforms. Tort laws have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not seem to affect the amount of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino