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  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, Managerial Accounting goes further by covering the capabilities and techniques necessary for effective management practice, as well as fostering attitudes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original introduction, we have selected work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29

unsolicited gifts will be equally appreciated. At the root of this dilemma is a difference of opinion about what purchasing an unsolicited gift signals: gift givers expect unsolicited gifts will be considered more thoughtful and considerate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications for the use of time versus money primes in discouraging or promoting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

Mela, a three-month-long Hindu festival. We estimate that the festival was attended by 61 million people, making it the largest gathering in the history of humanity. While we find strong overall evidence for both types of homophily for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

new ones. The authors contend that by understanding what causes customers to "hire" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Review (forthcoming) Abstract Companies in Victorian Britain operated in a laissez-faire legal environment from the perspective of outside investors, implying that such investors were not protected by the legal system. This article seeks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

differentiate "quality FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract Currency investors exhibit a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 18, 2006

  Working PapersNone available this week   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Company Sale Process Author:William E. Fruhan Jr. Harvard Business School Note 206-108 Lays out the steps, timeline, and process by which a company is sold.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2002
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Does Spirituality Drive Success?

spirituality in business. Can Spirituality Drive Success? Should It? In a session exploring how spirituality can lead to business success, panelist Tony Schwartz confessed to one distinction: he was perhaps the only person in the world who was "driven to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild
  • 24 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 24

definition of profit by changing accounting rules. On one level, this corporate behavior embodies the capitalist spirit articulated by Milton Friedman: "The social responsibility of business is to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and extend these findings through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

Understanding Ordinary Unethical Behavior: Why People Who Value Morality Act Immorally By: Gino, F. Abstract—Cheating, deception, organizational misconduct, and many other forms of unethical behavior are among the greatest challenges in today's society. As regularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

http://hbr.org/2011/05/column-the-hollow-science/ar/1 Effective Managers Say the Same Thing Twice (or More) Authors:Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract How do effective managers get employees to act... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne