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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
banking regulator's competence, and, hence, in other banks chartered by the same regulator. As a result, depositors withdraw funds from otherwise unconnected banks. The optimal regulatory response to this behavior can be privately to View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Abstract This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. In particular, they View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
be appropriate to the opportunities inherent in the new technology. If not, its use will lead to inaccurate analysis and underinvestment. That is one source of the bias exhibited by successful firms facing novel technologies, and it is... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals... View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
revenue from the shipping fees because these are orders that qualify for free shipping." As one might expect, customers who visited the seller's website more frequently, as well as more recently, exhibited the highest demand and... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
difference," Edmondson said. Inclusive leaders exhibit three characteristics that lower the fear of speaking up among their employees: such leaders are accessible, proactively invite input, and acknowledge their own fallibility. "Small... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Chris Anderson of Wired magazine, who has popularized the concept of the "long tail," about which he is writing a book. It refers to the tendency of consumers to buy a greater variety of things in smaller quantities when the opportunity is made available to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
vertical production and financial linkages with parents exhibited greater resilience. Finally, in contrast to the crisis period, the effect of foreign ownership and linkages on establishment performance was insignificant in non-crisis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
international equity markets. The average slope coefficient on the ERP is a highly significant 1.05. In contrast, factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power worldwide. Integrating the model with a dynamic information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
which was founded by actor/director Robert Redford to promote independent filmmaking. Started as a "Lab" where independent filmmakers could work on their film projects, the Institute soon expanded to organize the Sundance Film Festival in order to facilitate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
sales data. Early product sales, appropriately adjusted for variations in price and availability, are an excellent predictor of overall sales (see the exhibit "No Need for a Crystal Ball"). In fact, retailers that exploit these... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
system in particular countries are instructive. It also contains exhibits that display comparative performance of the system in terms of cost and quality. It raises the question of how health care can be delivered with higher quality at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
demand for the various allergy products, which included several brands and package quantities, while modeling algorithmic price competition by the firms. When compared with a simulation in which each firm exhibited traditional (symmetric)... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
average person to access information on servers around the world. As a tool for exploring how standards are set when new technologies hit the market, the browser wars exhibit many features we like to study: competition between two viable... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
management, and telemedicine. This note also contains a glossary of key terms and acronyms in this space as well as exhibits detailing unit economics, market dynamics, and key players. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
exhibit altruistic behavior by purchasing gifts for others at a subsequent visit to a park gift shop. The point of the experiment for business practice: The research indicates that it's possible to induce selfless behavior in your... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Street earnings occurred around 1991, and (iii) a large number of firm-quarter observations exhibit zero differences between GAAP and Street earnings. We first view the paper as a methodological paper, and discuss how the analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace