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  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

by-product produced is exactly the amount that can be produced using the entire waste stream). The operational synergy in the joint production process is manifested as one of two subsidies: the by-product is subsidized by the disposal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

result higher cost of capital. However, this result is not mitigated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Overall, our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives depend in a non-trivial way on the proportion of high-quality users in the overall population... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

call, Masha knew he would be returning home. Ndidi and Mezuo Nwuneli Cofounders, AACE Food Processing & Distribution Ltd. In a country where 90 percent of processed food comes from imported ingredients, AACE... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

diversification strategies. The article concludes by suggesting a research agenda for dynamic capabilities. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53220 Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice and Foreign Production View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

the process of decoupling. Decoupling is the separation of two or more activities ordinarily done in conjunction by consumers-think of watching TV shows and sitting through the ads. These new digital disruptors allow consumers to benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

Dean Light, the only participant who appeared on all three panels, gave an overview of the market events leading up to the crisis and outlined a three-part process for dealing with it. Using the metaphor of an emergency room, Light... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2013
  • News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

firms to develop software to complement the firm's devices. But the problem wasn't with one or two design decisions—it was likely more deeply rooted in its processes and culture, a pattern I've seen affect many successful firms. They... View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

feedback influence order quantities. We find that the portion of mismatch cost due to adjustment behavior exceeds the portion of mismatch cost due to level behavior in three out of four conditions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

Brain Sciences Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs By: Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

debilitating effects of interpersonal fear on collective learning processes. Q: How do you define learning? How does learning promote performance? A: I define learning as a process: A process of action, reflection, and new (often... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

  Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Your Own Medicine

to the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), only one of 5,000 to 10,000 experimental compounds make it to FDA approval, and just 2 of the 10 that get that approval produce enough revenue to exceed the View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption decision; thus, we cannot... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

where the cost of merchandise is roughly equivalent to in-store prices, Jay Light underscores the significant cost differentials inherent in online trading. "The online consumer can execute a trade for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

Publisher's Link: http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/MF10-16.pdf Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior Authors:F., M. Schweitzer Gino, N. Mead, and D. Ariely Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne