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  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

different organizational contexts, i.e., summer field training and during academic semesters. Leader performance was measured with leadership grades (supervisor ratings) aggregated over four years at West Point. Findings-After controlling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

Jeong-han Kang, and Toby E. Stuart Periodical:Administrative Science Quarterly (forthcoming). Abstract This article examines how competitive crowding affects the conduct of actors in a tournament. We develop three claims: (i) crowding from below, which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

different levers for measuring and implementing a company's strategy. Companies whose BSC describes a low total cost strategy need ABC for accurately measuring the costs of critical processes. Otherwise they... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Reforming Company Boards

structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been stretched to exaggerate smooth... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

negative relation between this measure and both future stock returns and future profitability. The economic and statistical significance of our results is stronger than in previous research focusing on individual categories of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

done, often without their customers’ knowledge, in order to meet goals for achieving “deeper” relationships with them. The number of a bank’s services supposedly used by each customer is a way in which Wells Fargo (and many other banks) View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

released through such refactoring efforts. We address this gap by analyzing the relationship between system architecture and maintenance costs for two software systems of similar size but with very different structures: one has a “Hierarchical” design, the other has a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on average react negatively to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

amounts of internal energy go to 'making the quarter return' rather than serving the customer and building the future. Why did quarter returns develop in the first place?" Bill Hubbell added, "The market has many mechanisms to establish expectations. . . .... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

valuation. Analysis of auction transactions revealed greater inter-subjective agreement about valuation over time, as the new category institutionalized. Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting Authors:Tyler Moore and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

Interest Rates Author:Luis M. Viceira Publication:International Journal of Forecasting (forthcoming) Abstract This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

are (a) "strategic" mergers that are potentially used as mechanisms for competitor pre-emption, (b) systems effects of mergers including the impact of mergers on sector-wide diffusion of technologies, (c) "consequential" effects of mergers on more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

(EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also confirm and update the existing evidence rejecting the EH in nominal bonds. This rejection implies that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

resources, Tanzania receives very few tourists and revenues from tourism. To explore the determinants of this performance, I conduct an international survey for upscale hotel managers to measure supply-side constraints on the operation of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of the latter View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

bundled payments. The stakes are high, and the outcome will define the shape of the health care system for many years to come, for better or for worse. In this article, the authors argue that although capitation may deliver modest savings in the short run, it brings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

Dow, General Motors, Nestlé, and Petrobras) and smaller entrepreneurial firms (such as the U.K.'s AIFS and China's BabyCare) undertake critical financing, investment, risk management, and incentive management issues to take full advantage... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

get what they wanted. Choices were more limited, delivery time was measured in months, and warehouses were typically piled high with mountains of expensive inventory—often comprised of too many unpopular products and too few hot sellers.... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Alumni Books

Big Data to Your Advantage by Kaiser Fung (MBA 2001) (McGraw-Hill) With advancements in smartphones and computers, huge amounts of data are being collected, and more and more things can be measured that previously could not be. Fung... View Details