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  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

Authors:Diwas KC, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino Abstract Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

experiments in which participants waited in virtual queues, revealed that waiting in last place diminishes wait satisfaction while increasing the probabilities of switching and abandoning queues. After View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. For common seat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

with the sale deters CEOs from selling their equity. The effect of taxes remains significant even after controlling for other determinants of CEOs' sale of equity. We also find that taxable institutional investors and CEOs both respond to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

control and the growth of professional management seen in the United States. That debate continues. But this book does report compelling research that shows that, historically, family ownership and management in many countries has been a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

enough good information to continue? HS: The running of the experiments is actually part of the resource acquisition strategy. Starting with a belief and an idea, how does the entrepreneur prove a project's viability to potential backers?... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

way. Publisher's link: http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814434093 Forthcoming Journal of Public Economics No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery. By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

  Publications February 2015 Journal of Finance The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract—Using a field View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

further growth, and essentially the loss of control of the company by the board, which was even required to remake its composition. At Volkswagen, eerily similar things happened, this time with engineering practices and goals. This sad... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

were told that 1000:1 was the ratio of the retailer's CEO's salary to the average employee's salary. The other half were told that the ratio was much lower: an idealistic 5:1. A related experiment raised the low ratio to a more realistic... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

is not much historical data and experience for managers to draw upon when developing or applying metrics, and many economic benefits of e-commerce projects are seen as difficult to measure. Further, the pace of change in e-business and... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

are being given when they are charged with controlling and managing society's most precious resources. Fourth, it is critical to restore a goal of professionalization in business schools and create some kind of evergreen MBA. The reality... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

Ceranic Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology 97, no. 3 (2012) Abstract Does power corrupt a moral identity, or does it enable a moral identity to emerge? Drawing from the power literature, we propose that the psychological View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. Building on Antràs and Chor (2013), we describe a property-rights model of firm boundary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

in the family affairs of its most senior executives, family or not. Akfen Holding, founded 50 years after Koç in Ankara, holds a variety of construction, engineering and other firms related to infrastructure development. It has about 36,000 employees. The company is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

introducing a generation to the practice of personal computing and laying the foundation for the Information Age. Gates and Jobs turned their curiosity about electronics into a multi-billion dollar industry. From early experiments like... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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