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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library
description, and that in our roles as library practitioners we are not neutral. Due to the extent of the collections and the variable approaches to description that staff have used over time for remediating legacy description, we may... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
ability to create value. Creating superior performance with strategies optimized for adaptation (adjusting to differences), aggregation (overcoming differences), and arbitrage (exploiting differences), and for compound objectives.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
operational measures of social enterprise success. Finally, we identify present trends along both dimensions that contribute to changing the research infrastructure for empirical social enterprise research. Originality/value: Our analysis highlights the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is supported by a business model... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
activist investor Third Point Management. The activist had criticized Dow’s recent performance and advocated that the company split itself to maximize its potential. The activist also proposed two director... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
found many firms mistakenly applied an "outsourcing" mindset to collaboration efforts which, in turn, led to three critical errors: First, they focused solely on lower costs, failing to consider the broader strategic role of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
community influences on organizations; sheds new light on the temporal dynamics of both endogenous and exogenous punctuating events; and provides more nuanced understanding of corporate-community relations. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
Be That Way." His band was uptight playing in that historic venue before a society audience dressed in tuxedos and evening gowns. Goodman himself was unable to get his musicians to swing, but drummer Gene Krupa galvanized them with a drum solo so wild that jazz View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
objective fluency scores from the language change recipients at five points over a period of two years. Using variable and person-centered exploratory analyses, our results suggest that recipients’ negative affective responses to the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Social Performance (CSP)? A: Corporate Social Performance is a term used to describe "strategic" behavior by a firm. When a firm engages in environmental or other... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
“Many of these jobs are in high demand,” says Fuller, “which means that apprenticeships play a critical role in training workers for the jobs of the future and providing businesses with a ready-made talent pipeline.” The second report... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
Certainly, it is legitimate to worry that long-run but nonetheless critically important research once performed by organizations such as IBM and Bell Labs will be trimmed, and that no one will take the... View Details
- Web
Video Management Policy | About
proposed. The approach to selecting camera locations include: Primary building entries, main lobbies, outdoor areas, parking lots, viewing high-value or high-risk assets, loading dock areas, technology operations spaces, or other areas of vulnerability or View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Andrew Grochal on His Path to CarGurus
those with customers, then communicate these new enhancements to the sales team, and track performance after each roll-out. What’s your favorite part of working at CarGurus?The growth and fast-paced nature of everything we do here. I... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
for the course was later published, and Paul asked me to become his research assistant. Working with him was critical to me, because he was one of the few economists at the time whose work really integrated sophisticated mathematics and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
for optimal results. He recommends that four core categories be considered when planning these adjustments: customer definition, critical performance variables, creative tension, and commitment to the... View Details