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  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

quickly than inflation; restriction of access and services; standards of care that lag behind accepted benchmarks; frequent treatment errors; wide variations in practice patterns; slow adoption of best practices; and slow diffusion of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

regulatory policy-making is shared in the EU, but is primarily the responsibility of local governments in the U.S. Thus, in some important areas, regulatory policy-making is more centralised in the EU. The most important role local governments play in the regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2007
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Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

get their positions. How are they socialized into their positions, and what are the consequences for organizations and society? I was also interested in theoretical questions about how new institutions emerge and diffuse in society. My... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006

pressures. Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Humanizing Victims Predicts Intergroup Helping Authors:Amy J. C. Cuddy, Mindi Rock, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

diffusion of this practice, which led to greater understanding among a broader set of actors and consumers, the process may not have been as successful, since the development of a market category depends on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2012
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LEED-ing by Example

Simcoe, an assistant professor at Boston University, adds that such policies might also resolve a type of coordination problem often seen in the diffusion of technology standards, such as the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface or a new... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

products to have adverse events reports. These data may inform proposals for review of high-risk devices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52136 in press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

economics, in business education over the other behavioral disciplines. We document the key role of these institutions in diffusing "Chicago-style" economic approaches-offering support for deregulatory policies and popularizing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2290658 May 2015 Oxford University Press Entrepreneurial Creativity: The Role of Learning Processes and Work Environment Supports. By: Kanter, Rosabeth M. Abstract— No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational networks, and filtered by organizational characteristics, influence the adoption of practices that are more customized (tailored) or less customized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and investments in green building expertise by local suppliers. These findings suggest that government procurement policies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006

they also aid in the diffusion of creative knowledge to other firms through personnel and knowledge transfer. The trick, then, is to manage innovation in ways that exploit the opportunities while minimizing the risks. Purchase article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

process is to help diffuse stringent local standards through more centralised regulations, a dynamic that has recently become more important in the EU than in the U.S. Book:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

explore the role of organizational identity in the adoption of new sustainability practices, focusing on how identity functions as a driver of (or sometimes a drag on) adoption. Drawing on illustrations from the U.S. hotel industry, we examine how sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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