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- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil
work as professionals in education, government, or public health the opportunity for advanced study at the University to help build a strong network of leaders committed to social change in Brazil. LORENTZEN Photo courtesy of Erling... View Details
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History - Entrepreneurship
Nevertheless – whether by dint of past experience, summer internship or just good fortune, there are usually at least 100 potential new ventures being explored in any given year. As it has grown, the Rock Center has earned a reputation as the top program for... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
“Initially, the pictures weren’t graphic enough. I kept saying, ‘I need rotting teeth!’” The in-your-face images indeed affected study participants. Not only did they reduce soda consumption, but many also reached for a healthier option... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success
Extension Field Station in Lake Placid, New York. “Mike was already working with grants from the state of New York to expand its maple industry,” Turner explains. “Senator Chuck Schumer was among those who believed this was the only... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
as a golf course—and repeated cycles of fertilization and pesticide applications—have stripped the soil of natural life, making it especially difficult to grow things here. “We have absolutely no topsoil left on this property,” Leiserowitz says. “It’s all subsoil. The... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
documents/opim/seminars/Steffenson_McElheran_JMP_011408.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Management Science (in press) Abstract We report on a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
field studies, researchers tend to think that workers submit resumes to open positions. In fact, scholars have learned a lot about discrimination in labor markets by sending resumes to job postings to see who gets called back and who... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
personal responsibility. Evidence of this problem is provided by a study of a large European telecoms company, which revealed that very little learning occurred from a set of large and small failures over a period of twenty years. Instead... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
to support these sets of well-meaning folks who are trying to do the right thing." Tufano was invited to describe his work for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: How did you get interested in studying different vehicles for savings?... View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Personality and Social Psychology , 2009). 2009 Michael I. Norton : Selected for the Marketing Science Institute's 2009 Young Scholar Program. The biennial MSI Young Scholar Program brings together some of the most promising scholars in marketing and closely related... View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
activity of the day. Many workers endure much lengthier commutes than the 76-minute roundtrip average; in fact, commutes are getting longer in general. One study found that the distance between employees’ homes and workplaces in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11
demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they deliver can actually improve. Studies in food service show how revealing customers to employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
motivation (Study 3) and greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior (Study 4). Finally, a field study constructively replicates these effects and demonstrates that individuals who work in more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Policy,” in which University of Michigan Professor Andrew J. Hoffman wrote, “One of the reasons (among many) that the public discourse on critical scientific issues of our day has become so confused is that too many academics, according to a 2014 View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking, operationalized as perspective-taking. In Study 1, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winner of the 2019 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School. 2018 Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2018 Crowell Memorial Prize For the Best Paper on Quantitative Investing from... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
cross-departmental collaboration mechanisms that enable improvement in the flow of materials across departmental boundaries. August 2013 Production and Operations Management The Effectiveness of Management-By-Walking-Around: A Randomized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne