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- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
suggest that the mere provision of information on peer health behaviors can have perverse effects on one's health behavior." To learn more, see Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health by Leslie John and Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
organizations face in designing and implementing effective digital platforms that support a range of functions and stakeholders. “We talked about what it really means to transition to digital operations,” says Carrolo, the General Manager... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
heterogeneity in consumer sophistication could explain the prevalence and persistence of misconduct at such firms. Misconduct is concentrated at firms with retail customers and in counties with low education, elderly populations, and high... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Abstract We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, where trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions By: Liang, Hao, Christopher Marquis, and Sunny Li Sun Abstract—We examine the heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous doctors, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
creative problem-solving task. In the second experiment, conducted using virtual teams, we show that pre-team relational self-affirmation leads to heightened feelings of social worth, which in turn explains the effect of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
brand loyalty. We argue that UBBs are effective because consumers react positively when they see the underdog aspects of their own lives being reflected in branded products. Four studies demonstrate that the UBB View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
providers are beginning to offer unique services, creating the facilities and organizations to effectively deliver them, and gathering the data to show superior performance and to continue to improve. Public policy can help accelerate... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Oasys Water: Balancing Strategic Partnerships & Financing Decisions Oasys Water had developed a proprietary water treatment technology based on an innovative forward osmosis process that could remove dissolved solids from water more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
several automated dashboards. “We see that over 90 percent of our patients have a statistically significant improvement in their symptoms when they complete a program. That is truly best in class. It’s proof that we need tailored solutions for women that more View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
categories are far from homogeneous and substantial variation exists between consumers in the same category. So tailor-made loyalty systems go way beyond these heterogeneous customer groupings by offering propositions at an individual... View Details
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
society, and that the increasing incidence of “air rage” can be understood through the lens of inequality. Research on inequality typically examines the effects of relatively fixed, macrostructural forms of inequality, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
spillover effect to the private sector. The authors studied what happened after municipal governments in California adopted policies that required public (but not private) building renovations and new construction to build "green," which... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016
cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes; moreover, in contrast to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of all supplies of oxygen and medical equipment; support for the private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than 1 million households; and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon