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- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
Paine. “Policies have to be interpreted and can mean different things to different people, but having one at least provides a starting point for the discussion.” 2. How do we monitor culture? When making hiring decisions, particularly for... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
internal and external developers of new products. Successful firms devise peculiar organizational configurations to collaborate with external researchers, who act as interpreters of the evolution of technologies and sociocultural models;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
volatile stocks, confirming our interpretation that changes in risk appetite drive the real rate. Increases in our measure of risk appetite are followed by a boom in investment and output. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Downsizing? By: Cohen, Lauren, Joshua D. Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Publication:Special Issue on Metric and Interpretive Explorations of Macromarketing. Journal of Macromarketing 29, no. 3 (2009) Abstract It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world's poorest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
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
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
had had to be actively created. Supply alone did not generate demand. Second, this was a case in which actors other than the producers (that is, the artists) interpreted the product to explain and construct its value to consumers,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
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
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
is commonplace, workers exert effort, there are high-powered contracts (and income is unequally distributed) and punishments are harsh. Economists who believe that deterrence (rather than retribution) shapes punishment can interpret the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
sensitivity drive the effect of experience on choice behavior. The experiments are focused on repeated choice tasks where decision makers choose repeatedly between alternatives and get feedback after each choice. Experiments 1a and 1b show that behavioral tendencies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
interpretable results, and that performance is improved by achieving good results simultaneously along several inter-related dimensions. The Transformation from 'I' to 'We' Authors:Bill George and Andrew N. McLean Periodical:Leader to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces (Experiment 3). These experiments suggest that mind perception is a dynamic process in which relevant contextual information such as social identity and out-group threat change the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
considerations seem central in the demand for redistribution, and because in several settings (as in some ultimatum games) such preferences for fairness can lead to large (material) inefficiencies. In this note we report a difficulty we encountered when View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
without their consent. Yet, sometimes honesty does hurt and bad guys do win. Thus, the fact that creative managers can often come up with strategies that are fair to non-shareholder constituencies while still maximizing shareholder value should not be View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
know what they're driving at, but they don't always bother to tell everyone what's in their head, and if they do, the translation is not always clear," Kanter says. "So CEOs make speeches all the time and think everyone is View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
U.S. manufacturing stage a comeback? Pisano: There are real reasons to be optimistic: The U.S. economy is quite resilient, and it's quite flexible. These are things to build on. We wouldn't want anybody to interpret what we are saying as... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
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 additional mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
rules, we find that outside specialists are most effective at excluding the responsible affiliates, which we interpret as a benefit of specialization. However, in-house staff are more successful at identifying and excluding affiliates... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Users will learn how to produce and interpret demand curves and calculate the price elasticity of demand. The concepts of revenue, costs, contribution margin, gross margin, and net income will be introduced to inform profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
merger or acquisition is called "consideration." Consideration can be in the form of cash, shares, or a combination of the two. Lays out the basic mechanics of equity consideration. Derives formulas for the Deal NPV of an all-equity deal and shows how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace