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  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments. A variety of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

is men versus women, said RIM's Tyneski. In user testing at RIM, participants are placed at a table that contains a Styrofoam phone and numerous Velcroed pieces that represent possible features. Asked to add the features they most want,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

author cites a number of companies that have moved toward or into what he calls "the efficiency frontier." These include Sarvajal, in India, which saves money and eliminates waste by selling direct to customers through its... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

he was, and wondered why I had asked. Well, I told him of some rules of thumb I have been working on to isolate entrepreneurial opportunities in a recession, and this question was meant as a test for one of the rules. I knew of several... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

authors, who offer a framework for creating a thriving marketplace while minimizing the risk of discrimination. For starters, they say, companies must track and report on potential problems and carefully test choices that may influence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

1,000 cluster initiatives in Europe by their engagement in New Growth Path-related activities. We then deploy this data to test the impact of cluster initiatives on regional New Growth Path performance. Overall, we find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

research model, we go out in the field to develop and test hypotheses about the managerial challenges identified and shared by the nine PELP districts, write cases and notes that are relevant to addressing the challenges, and then deliver... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

different work patterns and decision rules required in the new business. Print reps were used to selling in long cycles, to an established customer base, with a generic, nontargeted advertising product. Online advertising View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

that information disclosure is particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened (and thus are shamed) and face lower-cost opportunities to respond (and thus are particularly able). Testing this by examining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

wide array of robustness tests that address the concerns expressed by AS2016. Our empirical findings reinforce the conclusions of CW2013. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52775 Inventory Management for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

I find robust evidence of a negative (positive) relation between unexplained (explained) pay disparity and future firm performance. Additional tests show that the negative relation between unexplained disparity and firm performance is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

project, in which the sales and marketing structure play a central role. Will his ideas allow the company to keep its customers and successfully go after new markets? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jan 2021
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How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

solution identification. To help the hungry, he went to SNAP offices to observe and talk to people applying for food benefits. So, the practicalities involve customer discovery and even some prototyping, but with the public, not to them... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

improvements will be exhibited by those shamed firms that face lower-cost opportunities to improve—-and thus are particularly able to respond. We take advantage of a natural experiment, when a major social rating agency expanded the scope of its ratings, to empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

  PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

knowledge. Using a multi-method field study across two professional service firms to refine and test the proposed model, I also find that only the use of client-specific expertise (not the expertise of high-status members) enhances... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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