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- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
grew. That meant that as more features were added or tweaked, there were more farmers to provide useful feedback from the field. "The more farmers you have, the better data you have," Cook said. Experimentation can be hard for... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
really taking advantage of the opportunities for visibility that hackathons have to offer. To test the evangelizing effectiveness of hackathons, the researchers conducted a large‐scale quantitative study of 1,302 developers and 167... View Details
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
of assessing ability and reliability," says Chua. "Affective trust is trust that comes from the 'heart.' This type of trust involves considerable emotional investments." To test the relationship between those two types of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
process innovation based on the complexity of the process, the firm's organizational structure, and the innovation's impact on customers. I test its predictions in the context of e-business adoption using a large multi-industry View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
that researchers face when demonstrating the existence and effects of resale price maintenance (RPM). We outline three approaches for finding price effects of RPM and the corresponding hurdles in data and methodology. We show that the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test the insurance hypothesis using... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
the latest test results. A third approach—less common—is to create a coordinated "virtual team" around the patient, by sharing lab data, insurance claims data, and pharmacy data in an attempt to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
digital assets are (they're not always obvious). A team of senior managers from across the company should take an inventory of data and systems, assess how valuable each is to the company, and decide how much risk the company can absorb... View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
at Store24 To what extent do Balanced Scorecards provide useful information for testing and validating an organization's strategy? Analyzing Balanced Scorecard data from Store24—a privately held convenience... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment intensity"—that is, the number... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
undertaking. The data are all publicly available, and have been for decades; it was just a question of looking at the data in such a way as to test whether the structure of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of micro- and macro-level approaches... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
just beginning their community health push. The capacity of any one non-profit organization to absorb large sums is limited. Because companies also often lack strong relationships with community health entities, choosing multiple partners allows them to mitigate risk... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
voting. Moss offers a simple analogy: Imagine you want to test a theory that punches cause stomachaches. If you examine the data and find that some people get punched without getting stomachaches, and that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
investment-banking revenues. To assess the generality of our findings, we test the same relations using compensation data from a second high-status bank and obtain similar results. The Best of Both Worlds:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Research Data Uncertainty in Markov Chains: Application to Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Medical Innovations By: Goh, Joel, Mohsen Bayati, Stefanos A. Zenios, Sundeep Singh, and David Moore Abstract—Cost-effectiveness studies of medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne