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- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: that the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. Amazon's entry reduces the shipping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
development projects in an Indian software services firm, we find that knowledge repository use has a positive effect on project efficiency but not on project quality. However, when we examine two moderators, geographic dispersion and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
of this bid attracted me to the cause. Under the leadership of Atlanta real-estate attorney Billy Payne, who is now ACOG's president and CEO, a small group of local people was determined to bring the Olympics here because they felt it would uplift the entire community... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up with Margaret Glover, she had just left her position as director of planning and information services for Clean Sites, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit involved in hazardous-waste cleanup, to become an environmental consultant.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
readable page-turner, for avid Sinatraphiles as well as more casual fans of his music and films. It examines the positive and negative forces that made Sinatra, Sinatra. Logra Tu Dream (Achieve Your Dream): How 50 Successful Latinos &... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
delivers a message of hope for a better world where no social mission is impossible. Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) Endeavor www.endeavor.org POSITIVE IMPACT: With help from Endeavor, Drillco Tools has become a leading designer and producer of mining... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaders, yet many professionals are too stressed to know where to start. Burton provides deep insights and easy practices based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive psychology to help professionals thrive in the “age of... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
different pricing components on purchase likelihood, we find that list prices have a strong influence on purchase outcomes, with a $1 increase in the list price having the same positive effect on purchase likelihood on average as a $0.77... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that managers don't have some control... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
most affected by proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership, lost value on that day. The value drop was 55 basis points for a 10 percentage point change in activist institution ownership. These results suggest that financial markets placed a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
retention rates over one-, two-, and three-year horizons. The documented relationship between the use of online banking and customer retention remains positive even after controlling for self-selection into the online channel. We also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
space. Similarly, Greg Gioia (MBA 2015) left Goldman Sachs for the chance to get close to the magic that Whitman and Katzenberg might make. He believes that Quibi, where he heads financial planning and analysis, may be one of the few companies in a View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
television divisions. "I'm responsible for nearly $2 billion in revenues," he says. Previously, Zelnick held prominent positions in the movie industry, including a stint as president of Twentieth Century Fox. He decided to try running a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
managers, gaining competitive advantage through advanced pricing technology is not as straightforward as it might seem. “It’s important to consider your relative position in the competitive landscape,” MacKay cautions. “If you have a... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
wanted to gauge how often people humblebrag when faced with the common interview question, "What's your biggest weakness?" Indeed, interviewees are often counseled to put a positive spin on the answer: "I'm overly eager to please my... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
impossible competition from the eventual world of smartphones. Fortunately, the team decided to focus Project Beacon on driver security and safety. Unknowingly, they were employing Christensen's now-famous "jobs-to-be-done" theory, which View Details
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
jury is still out on the restructuring, Gilson says Realogy is seeking opportunities to grow the business, and "operating improvements made during the restructuring have positioned the company to take full advantage of any recovery... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
America on the Mayflower. "So we come out with this overall conclusion that says that US innovation increases with letting in more immigrant scientists and engineers, primarily due to the contributions of these immigrant scientists and engineers," Kerr says. "But we... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
first meta-analysis to study the impact of contextual characteristics on the way market orientation affects innovation consequences. The study finds that market orientation components positively affect innovation consequences but that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
inversions are often not greeted with a positive price reaction. In short, the view that tax avoidance is simply a net transfer of value from the state to shareholders is complicated by the agency problem between shareholders and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen