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- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
ideation and idea evaluation. Perceptions of insufficient experimentation with new ways of working also predicted participation. Conclusion: The contest enabled frontline staff to share input and assess input shared by other staff. Our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via nonpecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on Productivity... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
their friends. Then they make a few more for friends of their friends, and charge for them. Thus user-manufacturers are born. Because of their low-scale production methods and connections in the community, they have a competitive... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
and task specific information. We test and find support for our hypotheses using experimental methods that permit causal inferences and examination of underlying mechanisms. Our study contributes to... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
Nordgren, Maarten W. Bos, and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 47, no. 2 (2011) Abstract Two studies address the debate over whether conscious or unconscious mental processes best handle complex... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the bounds within which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
that area. The real question is, when are these different methods appropriate, and under what circumstances? In international development there's been a lot of experimentation that hasn't quite made its way... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France, conducted with French professors Céline Braconnier and Jean-Yves Dormagen, the researchers examined the difficulties citizens had in registering to vote in the French presidential... View Details
- 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28
Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
researcher-collected data, the Internet opens exceptional possibilities both by increasing the amount of information available for researchers to gather and by lowering researchers' costs of collecting information. In this paper, I explore the Internet's new datasets,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is lacking. In this paper, we develop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016
is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader's innovation tool kit with a simple and proven View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate loans for 2003–2013 to identify bank-specific shocks for each year using methods from the matched employer-employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
effects, we use experimental methods to demonstrate that participants who imagined shopping with their own bags are more likely to spontaneously consider purchasing chips or dessert items and indicate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
and David Drake Abstract—In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior-the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior-the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
into consumer psychology. To reach this goal, we first briefly outline several methods that are part of the consumer neuroscience toolkit and how they are currently used. We then provide an overview of the research that has laid the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015
violation and distrust, even when the terms of the managers' economic contracts are fulfilled. We examine whether managers whose psychological contracts are breached seek redress by building additional budgetary slack into their budget requests. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
PublicationsHow Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret P. Pierson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
rate. Our results suggest that low pay rates are, in and of themselves, unlikely to promote dishonesty. Instead, it is the salience of upward social comparisons that encourages the poorly compensated to cheat. September 2013 Empirical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne