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- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
executive might get caught up in comparing the graphics capabilities and audio quality of various options, when in fact the only factors of importance to users are the size, weight, and security features. Worse yet, even if they narrow down the list of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
predictions. Specifically, abnormal returns to two proxies for private information (insider purchases and analyst recommendation upgrades) are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are obtained for subsamples that further isolate the reduction in private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio industry by 2.5 times over the next five years, effectively pushing profitability for Pandora out of sight. Pandora was a "webcaster" that was based on the Music Genome Project, which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
firms in an industry adhere to. For example, the dominant design in automobiles today has a gasoline engine, four wheels with rubber tires, a steering wheel, a closed body, and automatic transmission. Designers may change the attributes... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of non-conforming behavior, which cannot be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
describe it, has worked well for certain things in the industry, but not so well for others. What are some of the attributes of the anatomy and how has it contributed to performance shortfall? A: Let's take one: the market for know-how. I... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
no check box for the attributes we really want to know most about, he says, such as, is this a kind person? "So people search based on income, ethnicity, religion—these things are important and they are all decent predictors of... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
policy debate. Positive aggregate 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
(B) Dorothy LeonardHarvard Business School Supplement 912-406 Professor Gupta has imposed two new policies on his class midway through the term: 1) no use of the Internet to locate additional information on the company in the case; 2) an increase in the percentage of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Organizations Authors:Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan Rivkin Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Theorists argue that an organization's high-level choices, such as its organizational design or the attributes of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
reviews—with the strategy. Case Study: Sport-Man Inc. We illustrate many of the alignment issues with a disguised case study, Sport-Man Inc. (SMI). The company founded in 1925 to manufacture and market men's work boots. Its early success was View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
explores the determinants of observed analyst-firm pairings. We adopt an analyst/brokerage house perspective that allows us to examine not only firm-level characteristics as in prior research but also attributes of the analyst and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
don’t also have great talent vertically, at the owner, general manager and coaching positions, you will not achieve the results you want. In the NFL, 68.2 percent of the variance in team performance can be attributed to leadership.... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that determine whether and how marketplaces create value. Explains common causes of market failure and presents a framework for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
attributable to poor decision making by high-affinity syndicates after the investment is made. These results suggest that "birds-of-a-feather-flock-together" effects in collaboration can be costly. December 2014 American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Finding it difficult to avoid the second debate, the paper examines the extent to which prevailing accounts of corporate purpose (e.g., shareholder primacy, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship) support attributing responsibilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows that adjustments View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
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
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
characteristics enhances investment performance, collaborating for affinity-based characteristics dramatically reduces the probability of investment success. A variety of tests show that the cost of affinity is not driven by selection into inferior deals; the effect is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne