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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
employed by the hospitals in which they work. The resulting social interactions between these individuals and groups within hospitals provide a fruitful setting for examining issues that are of relevance to organizations in a broader... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
competence, transparency, and identification) will be relevant to which stakeholder type. We test the predictions of our framework using original survey data from 1,298 respondents across four stakeholder groups from four different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
Lerner: This is an excellent question. It is clear that corporations over the past two decades, and particularly in recent years, have been seeking to transform their central research facilities from "ivory towers" into places where the research is much more... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
worked on a manufacturing project in this one. He knew other Ernst & Young teams had, however, so he searched the electronic knowledge management repository for relevant knowledge. For help with the sales process, he found and used... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
costs to firms of changing strategy. The costs associated with strategy modifications, which we term “repositioning costs,” are particularly relevant to competitive interactions involving major changes to business strategies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days each month at the company. And they... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
puzzling and frustrating when I had the sense that our team failed to make the most of everyone's input. As a project manager I had made sure we held a kickoff meeting in the beginning of each new assignment to acknowledge all members' View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.— should be informed and modified by two classes of potentially relevant cross-border factors, the general and the negotiation-specific.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
actually might drive behaviors like we're seeing here," Anteby says. "Occupations are powerful groups. And to me that's the most interesting implication of [this study]. Here's a weird instance—whole body donations-—where we would never expect occupations to... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
million. "Going public was a great way to get acquired," Kuemmerle said, while noting that an argument could also be made for staying private. "Being listed on the stock exchange does mark a company's value, but in this case it was a low mark."... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
not have been true.” How the findings are relevant for businesses In fact, we tend to make all kinds of inferences about other people based on a variety of life choices they make, including where they live, whom they marry, the work they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
TripAdvisor. Brand Trump has been extended to other categories, from steaks, to education, to apparel. Not all of these ventures have succeeded. Few guests see the competencies of a good hotelier as relevant to designing distinctive... View Details
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
objectively (be) willing to learn continuously . Not be afraid to fail accept responsibility for failures as a team leader and accept credit for success as a team." Regarding the use of teams in the innovation process, Vimi Jain suggested that "(Innovation) Teams are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
research question. The researcher could defensibly write three different papers based on the three different research questions, and fail to report all the dependent measures in each paper—instead just reporting measures that were View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
team.) Team members could click on each occupation ("Architectural Drafters," for example) to review information from a database developed for the U.S. Department of Labor. The database, O*NET, describes hundreds of occupations and breaks out the most View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
of the "ease with which relevant examples come to mind"). In his words, the diagnostic process is even "compromised by positive or negative feelings we have toward another person." Putting it bluntly, research has... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
e-commerce is really about," said Job, "is reducing the gap between thought and action, between when you know something and when you do something about it." Third, he said, is a relevant brand that gives people confidence... View Details
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
Wright hope their research will encourage a new focus as policy-makers examine affected markets. "Regulators haven't recognized the structural similarities across these contexts," Wright says. "Our paper shows that some of the solutions for credit cards are View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
suggests that exclusive preferential placement disproportionately impacts traffic to top sites most likely relevant to users' requests. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2251294 Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research examining the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace