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- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
and time), across cultures with differing tolerance for ambiguity in relationships (the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria), and is distinct from related constructs such as generosity, conscientiousness, fastidious, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an important unintended consequence: racial discrimination. In a field experiment on Airbnb, we find that requests from guests with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
entrepreneurial program procured donations that the academic-housed program often did not attract. Specimen recipients' distinct demands partly explain these procurement behaviors. Thus, organizational efforts to meet demands seem to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
intellectual property have something to gain. However, the estimates of distinct effects that I have seen suggest that the benefits are disproportionately large for patent holders. Q: What are the implications of your research for policy... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
form alone (human vs. dog) while animacy becomes an additional organizational priority in later face-processing regions: the lateral fusiform gyri (latFG) and right superior temporal sulcus. Additionally, patterns evoked by human faces were maximally View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
model also predicts that bubbles will be accompanied by high trading volume and that volume increases with past asset returns. We present empirical evidence that bears on some of the model’s distinctive predictions. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
renegotiated trade agreements (with an emphasis on bilateral agreements) mentioned by the new administration is still subject to debate. But the tone of utterances by those now in position to influence US trade policy is in distinct... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
result of circumstance and situation. Minor disagrees. “That’s the distinction I was trying to make here--that it is some type of individual characteristic that will predict not only productivity and some of these other behaviors, but... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
some circumstances, charities with identical objectives can differ by obtaining funds from distinct donor groups. The model then provides an interpretation for situations in which the number of charities rises while total donations are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
written a couple of chapters in other books on just this topic. Businesses can be powerful generators of social value because of their distinctive sets of competencies and resources. A major challenge facing business leaders is how to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
Abstract—Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns, which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
campaigns drew two distinct groups of candidates. While the career advancement campaign attracted a group that had more qualifications and was more technically knowledgeable, the community-focused candidates were deemed more reliable—more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
Lazzarini Abstract In this paper we document the extent and reach of state capitalism around the world and explore its economic implications. We focus on governmental provision of capital to corporations-either equity or debt-as a defining feature of state capitalism.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
smother innovation. Artful and industrial making are distinct approaches and each must be applied in the appropriate conditions. It's important to recognize that artful and industrial making are not mutually exclusive. Artful making... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
auto companies. Nissan and Toyota were already well established, and Honda had to find some way of breaking into the market. It adopted a distinctive strategy instead of copying its rivals. In the book, we note the striking number of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
and resources. Based on the work of pioneering sociologist Richard Hackman, regularly relaunching can increase the likelihood of success of a team by 30 percent or more. Blanding: You make a distinction between cognitive trust and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations can reduce competition among merging hospitals for inclusion in insurers' networks, leading to higher prices (or lower-quality care). Using data on hospital mergers from 1996 to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant information) and lying by commission (the active... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
regarding the causal links between entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth still call for explanation. It remains unclear, for instance, whether William Baumol's neat distinction between productive and unproductive... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
started developing them have ceased to exist as independent entities. In those cases in which the skills and capabilities that characterized new ecosystem domains were distinct enough to justify a truly focused strategy (for example,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien