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- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Mott said "let's not forget the plethora of research that shows teams consistently outperform individuals. It is the modifying effect of the team, which also slows down the decision-making process, that produces a better result." Yadeed Lobo had other... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
leaders remain oblivious to an emerging threat or problem—a lack of attention that can plague even the most skilled executives. After European Commission regulators refused to approve General Electric's $42 billion acquisition of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Decision Processes Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making By: Gino, Francesca, and J.J. Lee Abstract—This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
which determines “horizontal market power,” and consumer inertia, which generates “dynamic market power,” creates a clearer picture of market power dynamics within a given market. This can inform companies in their use of price to attract customers, as well as assist... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
city government are seeking a development solution in the form of unique land use regulations and a resulting development strategy that weighs the financial, economic, aesthetic, and environmental impacts of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of labor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
for tomorrow: the knowledge-based spaces such as advertising, media, software, biotech, research, and genomics. The government doesn't really know how to grab onto some physical asset, because there are no interventionist rules and View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Over time, however, Japan's economy strengthened. Instead of then opening the economy and unleashing competition in the marketplace, the Japanese government continued limiting and regulating competition in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
PublicationsRegulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata Authors:Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun Publication:Economica (September 2011) Abstract We explore the effects of planning regulation on the UK retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
And new road construction is promising. "Increasingly, rural areas are becoming more and more central to growth," he said. "Build a road into a village and increasingly that road becomes connected to the Indian economy." Business View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
sales begin to plummet. Other local governments and India's federal food-safety regulator also consider bans. Nestlé must decide how to respond. Options include suing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
and attempt to develop frameworks for assessing the nature of this impact. It is equally important to identify the entrepreneurs and firms that have been ahead of governments and regulators in championing... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
regulation has aimed to increase competition among raters ever since the Enron debacle. "As researchers we feared that increased competition may have detrimental effects in this setting." In our e-mail Q&A, Becker discusses... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on corporate disclosure practices. Specifically, we examine regulations mandating the disclosure of environmental, social, and governance information in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
rods). I am sure that there are other good candidates in the US as well as in the EU and in Japan. The barriers to rapid progress in New Nuclear are not technical, not even economic. The barriers are in the outdated nuclear regulations... View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
such investments have already begun to percolate. Are these concerns warranted? If history is any guide, foreign investors in the United States have more to worry about than domestic regulators do. The singular fact about foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Several innovative regulatory programs are encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose, or "confess," the violations they find. Despite the "win-win" rhetoric surrounding these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
this is not what business does or should do, Henderson said. “If managers can support public institutions and provide public goods and make money, why aren't they?” "They say the answer is regulation or the answer is taxation,"... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Capital Regulation By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank capital regulation. First, wherever possible, multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
opportunity to differentiate the company and its products. It can also elicit positive reactions from government officials and regulators on important business issues. Q: It's clear that nonprofits get... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler