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  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

looking for opportunities to be creative. I thought my future career would be in advertising, likely as a copywriter. Two undergraduate internships at large retail advertisers gave me enough exposure and experience to discover that, in... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

Returns By: Greenwood, Robin, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

  Working PapersSocial Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart Abstract Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

with the model's predictions, we find that whether a firm integrates upstream or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand for its final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

non-western participants are committing significant resources to winning in those markets.  The gulf between sophisticated African consumer preferences for products and services and resource and capacity... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

that those delivering the news can find comfort in debriefing the experience. Some managers find these helpful, while others prefer time alone to reflect or to do physical exercise. Stress relief and learning, though, are the two key... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital

all part of his pitch, but ultimately Memme let his actions showcase his value add. “I didn't sell myself because I’m not good at that,” said Memme. “Instead, I prefer to demonstrate my work ethic and was lucky to be able to do that with... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides rich new evidence and insights on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations over time. It shows the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

diverse units, employees, and constituencies. In this chapter, we describe how effective leaders customize their organization's measurement and management system to partner with their employees for strategy implementation. We also discuss... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

Business Research 60, no. 6 (June 2007): 640-648 Abstract This article extends the discussion of congruity or the preference by consumers for alternatives similar to themselves 1) by examining the effect in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

requirements or social norms, but because we are altruistic; we care intrinsically about the welfare of others. In this paper, we illustrate for these types of decisions how confusion may arise because the distinction between our personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice between three different fee structures: first, a "conventional" fee structure of a 1.5% management fee with 20% carried... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

show that optimal policy may simultaneously include substantial redistribution across income-earning abilities, as in the standard model, and reject three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel