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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Disabilities by Laure Wang (MBA 1997) Self-published This book is a guide for everyone—caregivers, therapists, and people with physical disabilities—based on Wang’s experiences, and can serve as a handbook of etiquette for the treatment... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
of rapid technological change. Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael Di Tella Publication:CATO Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011) Abstract We describe the evolution of selective aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
interests of the corporation. Contrary to popular belief, this does not mean maximizing shareholder value without regard for the effect on employees, customers, suppliers, the environment, or the communities in which the corporation does... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
property rights institutions that restrain the state can be more important as they provide the foundation for contractual institutions. In short, the ability to contract effectively between private parties is meaningless unless you can be... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
but I stand as 10,000." We stand on the shoulders of giants and are reaching back for those who come behind us. Lieutenant Commander Alison Wagner (MBA '19) To me, feminism is synonymous with advocacy—advocating for equal rights and View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
effective and hazardous pesticides. Treated farmers also sow a significantly larger quantity of cumin, a lucrative but risky crop. Interestingly, use of the service is increasing in the level of farmer education, but education levels do... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
working hard didn't increase their number of hours; and lower-skilled workers didn't work more at all. The application of formal cash incentives worked in a different way than the sorting effect. The absolute effect of cash incentives was... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
business). Despite how Scott's restructuring was often portrayed in the news media, however, the treatment of the affected workers was by and large pretty humane. Moreover, Dunlap's compensation for the restructuring, while very large in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
2009 Abstract This casebook provides an organized treatment of the major challenges associated with managing large-scale disaster events, including discussion of systematic methods of organizing disaster response, preparing in advance for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
a concurrent change in electronic transaction standards allowed hospitals to document a larger number of diagnoses per claim, which had the effect of reducing risk-adjusted patient readmission rates. Prior studies of the HRRP relied upon... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization. Using vivid stories of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Chad Sparber looked at changes in applications to U.S. colleges before and after the reduction in the annual quota of H-1B visas that took effect in 2003. (The H-1B visa is the United States’ largest visa for skilled temporary work.) Even... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Washington State) and by participants with responsibility to enforce rules in an experimental lab setting. We also show that this effect is driven by psychological reactance. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
noncognitive, interpersonal skills during adolescence. Long-run administrative data shows that negotiation training significantly improved educational outcomes over the next three years. The training had greater effects than two... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
production quantities of the two products based on the characteristics of both markets. We find that increasing disposal cost increases the cost of the primary product, but decreases the cost of the by-product. A second-order effect of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. As the ability to analyze a patient's... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, disproportionately discouraging marginalized citizens. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six View Details