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- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this information with buyers, focusing on attributes of the buyers seeking this information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
mechanism whereby price partitioning affects a consumer's perception of the secondary (i.e., non-focal) benefits derived from a transaction. Four experiments support the hypothesis that a partitioned price increases the amount of attention paid to secondary View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
shipping model, according to Ngwe. Ngwe attributes the higher purchase totals to customers overshooting the minimum balance needed to qualify for free shipping, due to the extra time and effort required to hit it exactly. "Shoppers... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures the number of patient deaths... View Details
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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
medium and long-term horizon? What are the likely advantages and challenges that will emerge as the country aims to further cement its role as a global hub? For the individual companies we visit throughout the course, how do Singapore’s policies and View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
entrepreneurs, now VC and CEO advisers) believe the four traits in the title (or HSGL) are critical for entrepreneurs. From their work with hundreds of business builders around the globe, they found that every one of their subjects possesses these View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
25-year-old company that sells fashion jewelry and home accessories to 450 retail accounts, discussed some of the challenges she has faced as a woman in business. Friedlander attributed her success to a "constant state of being creatively... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall's three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
social impact framing that emphasizes a venture’s social-environmental welfare benefits, which research has shown to elicit stereotypically feminine attributions of warmth, diminishes these penalties. We initially investigate this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the effect of workplace conditions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
for its milk glass, which it made more of and for a longer period of time than any other company. But it was once recognized as a glassware innovator, pioneering several kinds of glass that are now usually attributed to other companies.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
school, but before college, would help students build self-awareness, learn about the world, and develop grit. In turn, GCY felt these attributes laid the foundation for success in college and beyond. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
waking thoughts (Studies 2 and 3). The meaningfulness attributed to specific dreams, however, was moderated by the extent to which the content of those dreams accorded with participants' preexisting beliefs—from the theories they endorsed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
followed by two more successful investments. His knack for sound investments convinced him to raise his first $15 million fund and to found Floodgate in 2006. That first fund has been followed by four more successful funds. Maples View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
system as three independent but overlapping subsystems: business, ownership, and family. Any individual in a family business system falls in one of the seven sectors created by the three circles. It is tempting to attribute disagreements... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979 is attributed primarily to a shift in monetary policy towards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
would ask, "What are you doing, Tony?" And, always a mischievous type who often made light of the culture, he would take delight in replying, "Nothing." Why do we work too hard and, at times, thoughtlessly? Edward Hare View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
requirements are essential for newspapers going forward. It turns out that few companies exemplify these attributes better than Bezos's Amazon. And it's hard to think of another digital CEO who is better at managing across these three... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
keen exhibitors are to free up screens on which to show it, how much space foreign journalists allocate to reviewing it, and so on. As conventional wisdom suggests, the key drivers of success in the U.S. also apply to foreign markets. Marketers need to find a mix of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
and reorders. He also focuses on the skills and attributes of the successful entrepreneur, including a separate chapter on what he calls "numeracy": the ability to understand and use numbers to help one's business. Included in the book is... View Details