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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
February 2018 Management Science Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women By: Baldiga, Nancy R., and Katherine Baldiga Coffman Abstract—Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one way to promote female... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
shouldn't wait for policy; they should act now to become early movers in leading these changes. Context Professor Porter, having conducted in-depth research and analysis on the U.S. health care market, discussed his conclusions on the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
sequence of actions can have different psychological effects due to the role of mutual agreement. Finally, we contribute to research on consumers’ shared experiences by suggesting a novel mechanism for committing to such experiences:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
that women often leave client service to work in industry where they experience better work/life quality but limit their ultimate career progression. Her team focuses on creating policies to influence the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
long-run competitive advantage.— Forest L. Reinhardt One method managers try is to differentiate their products, environmentally speaking, and transfer the additional costs to customers. Star-Kist Foods, a Heinz company, tried this with mixed success in the late '80s... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
Japanese policy were not successful, and the poor results elsewhere in the world are not surprising. We also point out in the book, however, some areas where Japanese policy was truly innovative like high standards for energy efficiency and policies to simulate View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
shareholder value. The GE board had deferred to Welch in a highly public selection process, which had favored the sales-focused Immelt over someone who could transform GE to prepare the company for the future, just as Welch had done in the View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
research outputs in a panel dataset spanning the careers of 3,862 academic life scientists. Using inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW) to account for the dynamics of self-selection into patenting, we find that patenting has a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Performance By: Li, Shelley Xin, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations empower frontline employees to experiment with different ways to meet diverse customer needs across different locations. We conducted a field View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
always want to hear that a person is struggling, nor do they necessarily reward risk taking, even though they might pay lip service to innovative initiative. The authors outline several steps that individuals can take to shake off fear and paralysis, including looking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
commensurable, which in turn is critical to enabling market exchange. For example, until the early 1990s, when 20th-century Indian art was generally characterized as "decorative art" in international art circles, it was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
gotten a death threat on his phone, using the N word, telling him to get out of town. He says he gets about 30 or 40 death threats a day in those days. So, it was a very, very rough time in Montgomery, Alabama. I went to Georgia Tech in the View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
School Case 806-073 Follows the growth of an entrepreneur from his early startup activities. As the company evolves from 1998 to 2005, looks at key decisions and turning points as AtHoc's strategy adapts in response to changing market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Property), lured by the prospect of exciting careers in a hot market. But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? I don't see risks that you would associate with a bubble.—Stephen... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
"The central African thunderstorms are amazing," Virts said. "They're so bright that the modules of the space station light up." He repeated the point for emphasis. "The thunderstorms are so bright that they light up the space station from... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
They began their research by searching through every patent filed by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office between 1977 and 2010. (They detail their findings in the working paper Codifying Prior Art and Patenting: Natural View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier and more satisfied employees at an Australian bank. In Experiment 2, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Ceranic Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology 97, no. 3 (2012) Abstract Does power corrupt a moral identity, or does it enable a moral identity to emerge? Drawing from the power literature, we propose that the psychological View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne