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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
The System What hasn't changed? The temptation of standard options, among other bait. Standard options remain the dominant pay pattern in American businesses today, he said. Most academics have never favored standard options and regard... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
patterns of behavior, not the other way around," writes Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti, an expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and operations. “The planning process we describe is going to surprise many... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
we found firm age to be positively associated with affect-based trust for partners of the same cultural ethnicity. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of this pattern of inter- and intra-cultural trust on international... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
continuously renew its strategy. This note identifies some patterns that distinguish companies whose renewal efforts made headway from firms whose efforts fell flat. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
observed about the resource allocation process in large, complex organizations applies when considering small, emerging firms. And related to that, I am exploring how resource allocation patterns shape strategy redirection efforts in new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Williams, who wrote the Academy-award-winning score for Jaws. It’s one of the most recognizable and influential scores in the world. In modern pop culture, great white sharks are inexorably tied to the terrifying two-note pattern of the... View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
for consumers to envision or articulate their needs. Even so, and despite budget pressures, smart marketers devote a portion of their market research to getting a handle on future changes in consumer behavior. Are consumers of your brand going to revert to previous... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital–backed startups. We show that from 1990 to 2016 women... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
development of an instructional program based on them. Perhaps most important, Groopman describes how and why doctors sometimes make tragic mistakes. These are mistakes that occur because of miscommunication (the failure to say "tell me again"); too heavy a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
individuals have the choice to enact a variety of communication styles. We test the differential impact of being “warm and friendly” versus “tough and firm” in a distributive negotiation, when first offers are held constant and concession View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
platform owners may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we analyze the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
explores long-run patterns in the strategies of international business in developing countries. There was a massive wave of Western multinational investment in the developing world during the first wave of globalization before the 1920s.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
specificity that drives down the degree of hierarchy in the electronics sector. Differences in transaction patterns in turn may result from the differences in the power level of underlying technologies, which affect product specificity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
incompetence. Warmth and competence judgments support systematic patterns of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions, including ambivalent prejudices. Past views of prejudice as a univalent antipathy have obscured the unique... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
wealth, has developed an endowment model that eschews direct investments. Instead, the Norwegians have evolved into a world-class portfolio investor that predominantly makes asset allocation decisions. For U.S. regulators, these patterns... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
from frustration with the existing supply, agreed the panelists. Entrepreneurship, in part, is the skill of connecting different patterns in order to create a product or service that's more useful and convenient, said Stephani Khurana... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
status, we find that groups benefited—up to a point—from having high status members, controlling for individual performance. With higher proportions of individual stars, however, the marginal benefit decreased before the slope of this curvilinear View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace