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- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
behavior versus a sporadic one,” Ascarza says. “That could be very valuable for managers, who can then make sure that [firms] engage with customers the right way—to make sure that they actually develop these expectations View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
prepared to make a snap judgment; collecting and analyzing the data across two firms took nearly a year. But by offering them my initial observations about team behaviors View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
end." Christoph Vaagt had an interesting view: "If the value of a firm being sold depends on the people who work for it A retention bonus is a sure sign of a bad deal." Others questioned the effectiveness of retention... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
Hildreth had one day in Berkeley. “We went to lunch and started arguing about moral philosophy,” says Hildreth, who had previously worked as a manager at a global accounting firm for eight years. “When you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Misconduct: The Effect of Gradual Degradation on the Failure to Notice Others' Unethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Four laboratory studies show that people are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
remembered the Emperor. People's lives have been shattered by these huge upheavals in German history, yet they also have moved on. Businesses too have been destroyed and have come back. A good many of the top German View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
professional relationships may "bridge" the asymmetric information. This bridge may be particularly strong if both firms were financed by the same venture capital firm. Third, geographic proximity may also reduce the asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
developed countries. Large emerging economies with little inward FDI include India and Turkey, despite the relaxation over the last two decades of the restrictions imposed on foreign firms between 1950 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Law of Business Organization Authors:William T. Allen, Reinier Kraakman, and Guhan Subramanian Publication:2nd ed. Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2007 Abstract In Commentary and Cases on the Law of Business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
This study empirically examines firms' post-merger behavior using an institutional theory framework. While mergers can serve as a strategic tool for firms to reconfigure their product View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
this disconnect: The different approaches the disciplines take to translating real-world behavior into the laboratory create a ''gap in abstraction,'' which contributes to crucial differences in philosophy about the roles of deception... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
challenges in meeting the needs of the internal organization, large partners, and small up-and-coming firms. SAP executives, in this case, have to make a decision if a relatively small startup View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace