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- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
the people providing it, you cannot evaluate what they say or interpret its implications. Do You Use Your Network to Link The Work of Your Group and the Rest of the Organization? [ ] Here you troubleshoot problems: speak for, protect, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
attention of claimants and respondents. The model allows us to interpret our empirical facts in equilibrium and to quantify the effects of changes to the current arbitrator selection process on consumer outcomes. Competition between... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
accounting standards. Most of these changes took place between 1996 and 2001, and had a significant impact in the structure and interpretation of financial information of banks. This document explains the major changes on bank accounting,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
immigrants with that of more recent, non-European immigrants to the US, they conclude that the pace of immigrant assimilation today is similar to what prevailed 100 years ago. When interpreting evidence from the past, it is important to... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
faced a uniquely challenging combination of home and host country political risk. This article reviews the company's responses to these adverse circumstances, challenging the prevailing literature that interprets so-called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
performance response to added contestants varies non-monotonically across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one's future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
rules, we find that outside specialists are most effective at excluding the responsible affiliates, which we interpret as a benefit of specialization. However, in-house staff are more successful at identifying and excluding affiliates... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Users will learn how to produce and interpret demand curves and calculate the price elasticity of demand. The concepts of revenue, costs, contribution margin, gross margin, and net income will be introduced to inform profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
merger or acquisition is called "consideration." Consideration can be in the form of cash, shares, or a combination of the two. Lays out the basic mechanics of equity consideration. Derives formulas for the Deal NPV of an all-equity deal and shows how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to perform these functions. For clear violations of applicable rules, we find that outside specialists are most effective at excluding the responsible affiliates, which we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
skepticism'). Fostering alternative calculative cultures, strategically involved CROs interpreted the 'business partner' role of their function in different ways. Some risk functions aspired for an influential expert voice in key business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
traditional prejudices concerning skin color, as well as gender roles, into warped aspirational values. From a local perspective, different interpretations were possible. In India, the use of fairness creams was seen as providing one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
letter aloud to him. The black activist strongly urged the chief executive to keep it to himself. If he sent it, Douglass said, the missive would be interpreted “as a complete surrender of your anti-slavery policy, and do you serious... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
behavioral hazard, providing a theoretical foundation for value-based insurance design and a way to interpret behavioral "nudges." Once behavioral hazard is taken into account, health insurance can do more than just provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
show that empirical findings linking governance, incentives, and performance, which are typically observed in isolation, can instead be interpreted within a simple unified matching framework. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
spent with insiders is correlated with profits; time spent with outsiders is not. A possible interpretation is that spending time with outsiders might be more beneficial to the CEO than to the firm. To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and interpreting the results of time equations. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis and make proposals about how a similar crisis might be stopped in the future. The goal of the case is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Then you have the self-improvement people who can’t read and interpret the science, and some of it’s wrong. Where it is really exciting now is the seam between science and self-improvement, and that’s what I’m working on. In the course... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters