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- 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
the lab and into the field, analyzing companies' sales and pay data, and conducting experiments involving actual salespeople. The findings from this new wave of research support some current compensation practices but call others into question. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
PublicationsEngineers and the State in Modern China Author:William C. Kirby Publication:In Prospects for the Professions in China, edited by William P. Alford, William C. Kirby, and Kenneth Winston, 283-314. Routledge Studies in Civil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the same items, people believe that a preference View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? This little book is a roadmap View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
industries that tend to collocate with it across local markets. Our results suggest that the transmission of various different types of shocks through economic networks and industry interlinkages could have first-order implications for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
with whom we can examine our beliefs and share our lives. For the past thirty-five years, Bill George and Doug Baker have found the answer in True North Groups—small groups that gather regularly to explore members' greatest challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to assign new players to teams. This allows for a discussion of whether a similar system may be preferable to lottery-based or bidding-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that determine whether and how marketplaces create value. Explains common causes of market failure and presents a framework... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
efficiency, because some schools are strategic players that rank students in order of preference, while others order students based on large priority classes. Therefore it is desirable for a mechanism to produce stable matchings (to avoid... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
To create synergy, we require more than a concept and a strategy. The enterprise value proposition defines the strategy for value creation through alignment, but it doesn't describe how to achieve it. The alignment strategy must be... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
52-week high; conversely, bidder shareholders react increasingly negatively as the offer price is pulled upward toward that price. Merger waves occur when high recent returns on the stock market and on likely targets make it easier for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
localization and regionalization will be preferable to globalization. Key concepts include: Each panelist has led a remarkable transformation or innovation. In most cases, globalizing was driven by circumstance more than by some grand... View Details
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have lower leverage ratios than the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating social and economic value. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
resources should be redistributed and argues for a less progressive tax structure, just as we see in the current plan. Missing in action: debate Unfortunately, amid all the recent wrangling over rates and... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl