positive behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

Ert, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/1/2/117/ The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

innovation have increased so that we are shoving young people into positions of leading innovation in an ever-increasing pace. How are they going to learn? That's where the two overlap. SS: It used to be that you would learn skills and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Accepting this position would be a move back into mainstream media but also a career shift from line positions to a corporate staff role. The case profiles Fili-Krushel's media experiences, and her use of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

rates for 2,159 infant patients, but only after two years. In the shorter term, using these activities is associated with worse performance. By the third year, the positive impact of using deliberate learning activities is similar to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2014
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Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

a number of unintended consequences can overshadow these positive effects for the retailer. First, loyalty programs can negatively influence the consumer's price perception of retailers. This conclusion directly follows from the arguments... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC, struggling against apartheid.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

position is unreasonable, it may make little sense to be reasonable yourself. But if everyone routinely came to a dispute with a realistic starting position, the offers would be more or less aligned, and any negotiation that followed... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

large operating losses into positive operating margins, while achieving levels of patient care and satisfaction that were ranked best in their category. Having constructed the high-level strategy map and scorecard, leaders cascade the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

emerge, control and protect one or more strategic bottleneck, and prevent others from gaining control of any system-wide strategic bottleneck. I use this framework to understand how IBM initially succeeded with the PC platform and then lost its View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details