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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their conversion rates. This result holds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small welfare costs. All View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Lee Fleming: The classroom discussions remind me of early classes in the first-year required curriculum. The MBAs make up about 40 percent of the class and are in their last term at HBS—obviously, they can... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
New York: Springer Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business By: Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau Abstract—This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
apparel and footwear, when City Year requested fifty pairs of boots for its youth service corps program. "In the philanthropic relationship," Austin observes, "each side benefits modestly. The NPO receives funding, goods, or services,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Heinz, of the famous food company; Marshall Field, the Chicago retailer; Estée Lauder, who created one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world; Howard Schultz, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
horizon and a significant common ownership of companies within the same industry or supply chain. Two types of investors satisfy both criteria. First, large, mostly passive... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
attractive to inventors irrespective of its non-compete policies, which have been in effect since 1872. In both landmass and population, California is disproportionately large compared with most other... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
interview, Ely discusses the origins of the research, her experiences aboard an oil platform, and how this research can improve safety at other job sites. Sarah Jane Gilbert: How do you define masculine... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Review (forthcoming) Abstract Companies in Victorian Britain operated in a laissez-faire legal environment from the perspective of outside investors, implying that such investors were not protected by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Pomeranz says. To study them, the researchers formed groups of microentrepreneurs in Chile that were modeled on self-help groups like Weight Watchers to explore how participants could motivate each other to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
for the first time, define and limit. Second, companies that create systemic risk should bear the cost of insuring against it, just as commercial banks pay into an FDIC insurance pool. And the government... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
renegotiations. Our results indicate that institutional managers that participate in loan renegotiations consequently trade in stock of the same company and outperform other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of any organization." Carol Holding associated brand value with sustainability: "As brand value will soon be included in a company's valuation ... we can more than ever monetize sustainable... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business-Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs-offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs on leadership, strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
entertainment player, but it changed the viewing habits of millions of watchers. In this Cold Call Podcast, Anita Elberse discusses her case study on the impact of this... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman