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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
fact-filled breakout sessions designed to help organizations become more successful in achieving their philanthropic goals. “To our knowledge, there has never been such a gathering of top nonprofit executives,” said Bruce Marcus (MBA... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
employees' fears of telling the senior team about obstacles to the organization's effectiveness. They advocate six basic steps to overcoming these barriers and achieving greater success in talent development. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
Texas Instruments were also launched during this time. In fact, the odds on the success of an appropriately directed new venture during a downturn may be higher than in a competitive boom. Entrepreneurs — inside and outside of... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
not occur in non-election years, or in private bank lending. I show capture is costly: elections affect loan repayment, and election year credit booms do not measurably affect agricultural output. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006
through successive stages of industry evolution. We then show how this strategy was used by Sun Microsystems against Apollo Computer in the 1980s and by Dell against Compaq and other personal computer makers in the 1990s. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and popular sport events, reveal that the observed difference... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
enabling employees to move throughout the organization. Knowing employees want to make a difference is fantastic, but how do you measure and convey that difference to them? —Kate O’Donnell (MBA 2016) GULLIVER: We do that through... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
of it is having a gut instinct. If you don’t have that, you can get into trouble trying to repeat past success by measuring every potential acquisition against a comparable film from the past. A film like... View Details
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
Rich and Famous." As they grew richer, pressure increased on those below to trade up. And, as they traded up, pressure increased in turn on the well-off to buy even more—the second home, the big screen TV, and the latest sport-utility vehicle. Enter the big houses that... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
Chinese babies), and international restrictions and legislation concerning adoption. High-tech measures include IVF, artificial insemination, surrogacy, gamete interfallopian transfer (GIFT) in which the sperm is injected directly into... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
for anyone hoping to master the new-world skills required of successful business leaders today. As the narrative unfolds, Jim grapples with an array of business crises, some he inherited and some of his own making. As events push this new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business-Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs-offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs on leadership, strategy, and execution. In less than a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
number of times that each team member has worked with every other member of the team) has a significant and positive effect on performance but that conventional measures of the experience of individual team members (e.g., years at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
to practice and from simple to complex, the present paper builds on that work. It illustrates several classes of practical measures that negotiators can use to advance their own interests by focusing on the other side's Level II... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
alternative measures of trade costs, address potential reverse causality, and explore regional patterns. CEO Personality and Firm Policies By: Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina Abstract—Based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
Persistence By: Gallani, Susanna Abstract—Organizations often introduce temporary incentive programs with a view of establishing long lasting behaviors. Monetary payoffs are awarded upon achievement of team goals, which measure the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
to have packaged and measured the relationships in a way that made sense to a lot of people. Q: Many companies approach creating a good customer experience as a discrete action: a customer satisfaction program, for example. But your books... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
government-owned or privately held companies than men. Female executives are on average better-educated than male executives, the one variable that noticeably widened the gender gap after controlling for the 85 factors. (To put it another way: The most View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
institute for the past five years. Measurable Success Some measures of PELP's success to date are quantifiable. PELP's summer institute, a... View Details