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- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
high-performing salespeople. In addition, we find no effects in product returns with regard to a change in quota frequency. With quotas set over shorter time horizons, the high-performing salespeople focus mainly on low-ticket products,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns Authors: Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The correlation between governance indices and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
motives, such as ending research that might pinpoint responsibility and, most threateningly, liability for this man-made epidemic. Europe and the End of the Age of Innocence by Francesco M. Bongiovanni (MBA 1980) Palgrave Macmillan Francesco Bongiovanni View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
as to how we think about talent acquisition at large and how the pandemic has changed that potentially for us. We have currently a strategy in place where we are not enforcing return to office. What that means is, our offices have...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
predict changes in the number of overall establishments and restaurants in County Business Patterns. Contemporaneous and lagged Yelp data can generate an algorithm that is able to explain 29.2% of the residual variance after accounting...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
toward the hybrid approach—combining flexibility and in-person collaboration. But hybrid can be difficult to manage equitably and productively. That’s why some business leaders are pressing for a return to pre-Covid business-as-usual....
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- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
the founders predicted that NEA would grow in size and significance, but the challenges associated with achieving these goals were formidable. How could NEA scale and generate favorable returns from a large...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
for several days in the future? Most economic models predict that decisions do not systematically differ on such short timescales. We use a novel panel data from an online grocer to conduct analyses suggesting that people are decreasingly...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
half-time. The return to research was fueled by a breakthrough from the team—a new theory arguing that the cortex is not only processing all the information our senses are collecting but processing locations too. “Each little part of the...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
decade? More important, how might it come back? Simmons turns Dell’s rise, fall, and return into cogent lessons for business leaders. She combines insightful interviews from former Dell employees, seminal innovation thinking from authors...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
bus service, for example. Long-term investment requires a human face and clarity about benefits. The scare factor doesn't rally support. Predictions that bridges might crumble and kill people get no attention until it happens. But...
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technologies predict behavior and increasingly create behavior. They learn and improve relentlessly. They make better decisions than humans in an increasing number of contexts. They are unconstrained by moral boundaries. Are these...
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