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  • 05 Jul 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

... technology, how do you draw the line between 'work' and 'life'? ... I think we need new definitions for [these terms] ...." Do you agree? And what interpretation should we place on the unusually large proportion of anonymous... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

decades ago—hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's job. The problem lies not in what strategists are trained to do: Porter's perspective is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

of this trend. Similarly, the second half of the note summarizes, but does not interpret explicitly, certain stark correlations between students' educational prospects and their race and socioeconomic status. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

between two firms with possibly differing mental models regarding the structure of demand. The paper addresses the following questions: (1) How sticky are incorrect mental models, and how are market observations interpreted in such... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

interpretation of sarcasm lead to greater creativity because they activate abstract thinking. Studies 1 and 2 found that both sarcasm expressers and recipients reported more conflict but also demonstrated enhanced creativity following a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

Abstract Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

findings are consistent with capital markets interpreting the choice of purchase accounting as a signal of management's confidence in the likelihood of a successful merger. This signal is particularly relevant when corporate governance is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

and the existing structures of the users' environment. When users' interact with TOC on an ongoing basis they form interpretations of the new system, and based on such interpretations, they exhibit actions with respect to the use of TOC... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

zone is located. In tandem with its value in practice, BATNA has become a wildly successful acronym (with over 17 million Google entries). Yet the initial characterization of this concept in Getting to Yes (Fisher, Ury, and Patton, 1991) along with many later View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

for Commitment Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one’s future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

research grant for the purpose of identifying the error rate, this idea was decidedly unwelcome. My interpretation of the data suggested that we might not be finding the definitive error rate—and further errors might be systematically... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down. The general point is that one can... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

and Alison Wood Brooks. Excellence Comes From Saying No (31,511) In a new course designed by Frances Frei and Amy Schulman, business and law students help each other define and achieve their own interpretations of success. Lesson one: You... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

cost of excess inventory. Investors, lenders, and suppliers interpret this statistic for signs of the retailer's health, future sales prospects, and impending costs. While prior research on inventory has typically focused primarily on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

successfully. Megibow's team investigated the reason for the failures, again using Web metrics data and server log files throughout the process. Apparently, the "Company" field under the customer's name was causing a problem. Some customers View Details
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

electoral participation. Negative shocks to income and rates of employment are also associated with increases in closure activity within counties over time. We interpret these results as consistent with involuntary consumer account... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Analysis Authors:Juan Alcácer, Michelle Gittelman, and Bhaven Sampat Periodical:Research Policy 38, no. 2 (March 2009): 415-427 Abstract Prior art patent citations have become a popular measure of patent quality and knowledge flow between firms. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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