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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
balances the four drives while avoiding negative leadership and leaders who are missing the drive to bond. Order the Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470623845.html Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
on the macro and micro effects of this boom—on the markets, the environment, and the future of small-town North Dakota. Read on for thoughts from Senior Lecturer John Macomber, Wade Myers (MBA 1994), Barbara George (MBA 1980), Professor... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
observation that for patients who do not need to be intubated, proning—i.e. resting on the stomach—offers a gentler and effective treatment when paired with oxygen delivery. "We believe that improving access... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
nations, but the diseases' effects and potential impact on businesses and organizations is only recently coming into stark relief, particularly in Africa and Asia. Approximately 38 million adults and children in Africa and Asia (including... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
COVID-19 fatalities globally, while Australia and New Zealand have had relatively few deaths. The survey results are in line with reports that female-led countries like New Zealand and Germany responded swiftly and effectively to contain... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
a computer model of a potential mRNA-based vaccine. Twenty-five days after that, it produced the first dose of a treatment it hoped would protect against a disease that did not yet have a name. On February 24, after 17 days of analysis... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
groups: (1) a treatment group that receives all DrumNet services, (2) a treatment group that receives all DrumNet services except credit, or (3) a control group. After one year, DrumNet services led to an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
interests of the corporation. Contrary to popular belief, this does not mean maximizing shareholder value without regard for the effect on employees, customers, suppliers, the environment, or the communities in which the corporation does... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
whether, if business was a shaper of global capitalism, it was a force for good, or otherwise. I show that the heterogeneity of business enterprise renders this question challenging to answer, and perhaps misleading even to ask. In the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky (as measured by CDS spreads).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain circumstances, the in-store clinic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
new achievement are further escalated by the glamorized treatment they receive in today's media-centric world. The elements of celebrity—spectacle, "bests," charisma, and any form of novelty from the latest in consumption to a... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
Gilchrist, Duncan S., Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract— Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a discernible View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
business). Despite how Scott's restructuring was often portrayed in the news media, however, the treatment of the affected workers was by and large pretty humane. Moreover, Dunlap's compensation for the restructuring, while very large in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
effective and hazardous pesticides. Treated farmers also sow a significantly larger quantity of cumin, a lucrative but risky crop. Interestingly, use of the service is increasing in the level of farmer education, but education levels do... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details