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- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
Players Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Artificial Intelligence Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze two-terminal routing games with linear cost functions and with an unknown number of active... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
business functions over the past two decades, so credit derivative swaps are going to carry that transformation to a new level. As in any activity involving large numbers in both participants and size, there have been misuses and errors... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
differences materialized among nonnative speakers as a function of diverse linguistic and national backgrounds. I discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for status, achieved characteristics, and language in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
and mentorship, this obligation is mediated by affective closeness. Indirect reciprocity predicts that obligation is felt toward others simply as a function of their inclusion in one's network, implying that obligation increases with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
decision rights, and payoffs, we generate a large number of potential governance structures, including strategic divestitures, total divestitures, licensing agreements, and royalty agreements. For the broad range of parameter values and payoff View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
organization (i.e., economic, hierarchical, and power oriented) and institution (i.e., ideological, creative, and collectivist) and cohere around a set of relevant values. Extrapolating from this, we advance a theoretical framework of the process whereby leaders'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
and Toby Stuart Abstract The corporate staff is central in theories of the multi-business firm, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. In this paper, we examine the high-level role of two units of a corporate staff through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
sustainability, and top executive incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability metrics. Moreover, they are more likely to have organized procedures for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
principles of business model design and the functioning of markets for know-how. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611046-PDF-ENG mixi (B) Mikołaj Jan Piskorski and Mayuka YamazakiHarvard Business School Supplement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
Abstract The potential supply of biomass feedstocks in the U.S. and Canada is estimated using a static supply function approach. Estimated total biomass available at a price of $100 per metric ton is 568 million metric tons in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
same quality as for financial information. A further challenge is that the cultures of the finance function and those who work in sustainability are very different. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412054-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
imperialism, there is reason to believe that John Holt is not an isolated case of a company assuming this form. Holt and others function as intermediaries between global business, which rarely invests in small African markets and where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
different brands and categories at various stages of market development. Much of the controversy surrounding DTCA involves the question of whether advertising informs rather than persuades. Our present knowledge about the functions of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
While the risk functions of some organizations have a culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative scepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
cells and tissue to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage, or congenital defects. In late 2008 Tengion management faces a difficult dilemma. In light of the financial crises, the company needs to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
work on observable substitutability, we show that multi-division choice functions with flexible allotments enable stable and strategy-proof matching; these results illustrate the value of clearly mapping when stable and strategy-proof... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6
Sustainability companies. The boards of directors of High Sustainability companies are more likely to be formally responsible for sustainability, and top executive compensation incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
product and the activities associated with making and selling it. Selling becomes a function of individual "heroic" efforts, not a scalable platform for profitable growth. Equally important, this inhibits adaptive learning—a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such "core-periphery" structures evolve and become embedded in a firm's innovation routines has been shown to be a major factor in predicting survival, especially in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace