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- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Working PapersAn Optimal Lower Bound for Anonymous Scheduling Mechanisms Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, and Ron Lavi Abstract We consider the problem of designing truthful mechanisms to minimize the makespan on m unrelated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
conclude, after one century of banking crisis this is the best of times for Mexican banking. Publisher's link: http://www.library.hbs.edu/forms/purchaseform/ November 2014 Journal of Competition Law & Economics Leveraging Market Power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
investor's financial returns. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets brings together a series of Harvard Business School case studies on emerging markets. This book is an invaluable resource for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI) in developing countries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
organization profits. Order the book: http://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Calls-Twelve-Stories-Decisions/dp/142215811X From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival Authors:Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Sun Aware of the impact that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
each branch of the armed services must make. Army and Marine Corps officers operate in an inherently uncertain environment. They define the mission but then give subordinates the flexibility to adjust to realities on the ground. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
platforms-incumbent facing favorable expectations and entrant facing unfavorable expectations-and singlehoming on one side of the market, the incumbent always invests (weakly)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
Contrary to the view that non-core users and downward brand extensions pose a threat to the brand, this work investigates the conditions under which these non-core users enhance rather than dilute the brand image. A distinction between two types of non-core users based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
Apple boasts that more than one billion songs have been purchased from its iTunes music service. That sounds like a great number—until you consider that an estimated ten million users of Internet-based peer-to-peer (p2p) networks are... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
provide higher quality. When the cost of providing quality is not too high, firms use only one attribute to differentiate their products: they maximally differentiate on one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
shareholders, and other stakeholders. However, doing so will not always serve shareholders' interests. I leverage the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop some basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
limitations and constraints others have accepted, and set out to create new realities. This book is motivated by a simple observation: Leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, problem solving, business growth-and even personal development-almost View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
resisters in their networks did not necessarily know one another and so were unlikely to form a coalition. Change agents with cohesive networks, in which all individuals were connected, were better at instituting minor changes. Their... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
democracies. "Rodrik rejects the notion that efficient markets for capital, goods, and labor will always regulate themselves" Recent books by Dani Rodrik and Robert Kuttner generally support these notions. In his book, Straight... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
human physiology (typing is still difficult on a small keyboard), technology (battery life for a fully converged device might be in minutes, not hours), and human preference (would the iPod be as popular if it looked like a cell phone?).... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
useful change effort? What are the risks for the subordinate in dealing with a leader not always able to separate judgements regarding the quality of contrary ideas from those concerning personality traits of the person advancing them?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
can't or won't adjust, staying stuck on zoomed out is the lesser of two evils, Kanter says. "If I had to choose between getting too close to the details or getting too far out and losing the situation in the clouds, I would View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel