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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
And Functional Hubs The two general types of B2B hubs, said Upton, are vertical hubs, focused on a single industry segment, and functional hubs, focused on a common process or requirement, such as maintenance or human resources, across... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
the collective expectations of market participants. We are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. What most fascinated me was how much the content of financial orthodoxy had shifted during the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
examine the firm's choice of business model between the proprietary model (where all software modules are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source), and the mixed source model (where some—but not all—modules are open). When a module is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
financial-statement users come to outweigh institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology) that make IFRS adoption costly. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of IFRS harmonization among countries, although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
chapters provide in-depth analyses of representative companies and the remarkable people who led them. These firms include Google, eBay, Amazon.com, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, Boeing, General Motors, and Ford—all of which began as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
effectiveness. A thorough understanding of gatekeepers and their roles can thus illuminate academics, the financial community and regulators on how such gatekeepers can be the most effective and generate the greatest benefits for capital... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
related activities). We consider whether there are similar benefits to related diversification within an operating unit and examine the mechanism that generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
(HHI), varies across the sectors comprising the industry, but all are within the range generally considered as indicative of a competitive industry. The data available allowed HHI to be calculated for the period 1977-2002 in the case of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
clearly political content to what we are suggesting," says Bower. "We talk about the need for leaders of companies to develop skill sets that they might not have—a lot of our business leaders have not been brought up to be comfortable in... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
obtain bandwidth larger (smaller) than s/(s+f). The paper constitutes a first step towards a general analytical foundation for scarce resource allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. PDF not available. Peer-to-Peer File Sharing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine manufacture was clustered in Denmark... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
the problem owner (in this case, LISH) only pays for winning solutions with the platform acting as the broker. In simple terms, the intellectual property is transferred from the winner(s) to the platform, then onto the end user or problem... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
for information and search for solutions. Our results show that the effect of network structure is opposite for these two important and complementary forms of search. Dense clustering encourages members of a network to generate more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow a set of start dates for considering and hiring applicants during the fall of the third year of law school. Using the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details