Systems Integration - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

approaches that redesign specific incentives, tasks, and decisions to reduce temptations to cheat in the environment. This paper explores how these approaches can change behavior. We argue that integrating both approaches while avoiding... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

ideas. This isn't traditional benchmarking, since managers don't simply copy something they see elsewhere. Rather, they take pieces of practice or technology that they find and recombine them in novel ways to solve customer problems. The CEMEX team that developed the... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

while more equal ones dislike competitive groups and do not necessarily respect them as competent. Unequal societies may need ambivalence for system stability: income inequality compensates groups with partially positive social images.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Many of these shortcomings can be attributed to the Bank's inability or unwillingness to fully integrate accountability to affected peoples into incentive structures for staff. In addition, there has been little improvement in terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

they hoped Doug Clark, a biomechanist, and his Invention Factory team would bring a scientific approach toward building the next generation of Timberland products and ideas. The team had to convince those in the mainstream business to accept their new ideas and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

acknowledged that the difficulties faced in RE are multifarious, recent research has primarily focused on limited factors. This ongoing research project addresses this limitation by integrating the fields of social and organizational... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

The new capabilities and vast quantities of data that smart, connected products offer are redefining the activities of the core functions of companies—sometimes radically. As software and cloud-based operating systems become View Details

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