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- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
all states, have decreased very modestly between 1990 and 2005, and cannot be attributed to broad differences in access to physical or human capital. Open Innovation and Firm Boundaries: Task Decomposition, Knowledge Distribution and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29
creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the tendency to see superior performance as rooted in one's actions rather than other factors (such as luck). The second is that success feeds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
tractor technology generalized. The sequence of diffusion is consistent with a model of R&D in specific- versus general-purpose attributes and with other historical examples, suggesting that the key to understanding technology... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard productivity analysis, specifically,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
System, the more we agreed. Other companies could (and did) easily copy physical attributes of the Toyota Production System, such as andon cords and kanbans. But they couldn't replicate Toyota's approach to people. The challenge with... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
interest rates (the slope of the yield curve) is currently quite large by historical standards. Some observes attribute this to the fact that the Fed policy of lowering short-term interest rates over the last few years has not fully... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
mistakes in assessing complex reports. Receivers understand that senders are using complexity to hide bad news. However, strategic complexity is still effective, which can be attributed to receivers being overconfident in their ability to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
However, those lofty hopes were quickly dashed when Afrezza generated lackluster first-year sales, driving Sanofi to terminate its short-lived contract with MannKind in January 2016. MannKind's management attributed the launch’s failure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
practitioners. Researchers have built upon the work in behavioral decision theory, examining the ways in which negotiators may deviate from rationality. The 1990s brought a renewed interest in social factors, as work on social relationships, egocentrism, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016
performance being attributed more to luck rather than skill and effort, which can create incentives to shift earnings toward lower-uncertainty periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
one has long been the burning question for clients and their agencies," says Alvin J. Silk, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. "Hence the famous saying attributed in US... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016
an artifact of soundtrack alone because attitudes toward sharks did not differ among participants assigned to audio-only control treatments. This is the first study to demonstrate empirically that the connotative attributes of background... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
seller's ID with a seller score, or a buyer with a buyer rating." These days, however, profile pictures are commonplace. It's a phenomenon that Edelman attributes to Facebook. In fact, many sites require customers to use Facebook for a... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
and marketing. Retailers, for instance, will be inclined to give bigger bets more shelf space, and we know that in itself is a key driver of sales. Q: If you were to pick a manager to execute a blockbuster strategy, what attributes would... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
unconscious thought as a goal-dependent, deliberative process in the absence of conscious attention. Most people attribute a lot of their actions to a conscious process, but there are scores of processes that operate unconsciously.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25
factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this information with buyers, focusing on attributes of the buyers seeking this information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
to offline media, which made attribution modeling more difficult. Decisions pertaining to product extensions, channel expansion beyond DTC e-commerce, and geographic expansion were also on the table to prove that Hubble's customer value... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Moreover, we find that contingent free shipping shifts demand to more popular products and that the effects of category-level price changes on profits depends on the active shipping policy. Our findings demonstrate the importance of jointly determining product... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition from multinationals leads to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
can be attributed to topics shifting toward three domains: the stock market, salacious content, and celebrities. Meanwhile, relative to nonparticipants, participants' content quality increases after the program takes effect. We also find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne