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  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

  Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 6

for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should pay $4,500 more in tax than a short... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

2016 Random House The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change By: Anand, Bharat Abstract—Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

difference in the world. To that end, we search for opportunities to contribute to the study of leadership and the development of content for the MBA Program and various executive education offerings. Throughout our work, we seek to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

of content before the researchers saw them, but retained the addresses and positions of the recipients in order to track how the network was organized. Compared with more traditional research methods such as surveys, the data was... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

instructors and students to build a framework of analysis that enables them to understand the challenges of international trade and investment and master the opportunities they represent. This framework is based on a systematic evaluation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

on consumers knowing that firms know this. This creates a distinction between strategies of targeting and personalization. Third, the effectiveness of targeting in equilibrium may (far) exceed the information contained directly in the targeted message. Fourth,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7

discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element, the corporate foundation, constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

dispute and a trend analysis of over 400 total WTO disputes, I find that the WTO dispute settlement process is helping to legitimize the institution of free trade through its public display of rational authority and neutral expertise. At... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

to 2010 and how these have changed over time. The analysis finds pervasive deconcentration in virtually every area related to ICT, but it can explain only a small part of this trend. Deconcentration happens despite the role of lateral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional shareholders indicates that "dividend-averse" institutions are significantly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

to as "user-centered design." Yet, analysis of design-intensive manufacturers such as Alessi, Artemide and other leading Italian firms, show that their innovation process hardly starts from a close observation of user needs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

Himabindu Lakkaraju, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. The study is one of the first to explore the ethics of repositioning content to influence query results produced by LLM applications such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini,... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

  PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2002
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You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

product-market positions. In the late 1980s, the search for more dynamic, adaptive, and sustainable advantage led many to supplement their analysis of external competition with an internal-competency assessment. They recognized that... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

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