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- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
model, the company would sell sequencers at a higher price to those entities that already purchased sequencers, primarily major research labs and pharmaceutical firms, but position its machine as a faster alternative to existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
a differentially higher response to these benefits. The results, robust to numerous alternative hypotheses and specifications, suggest IFRS adoption is self-reinforcing, which, in turn, has implications for the consequences of IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
is not always possible and suggests an alternative approach. First, when teams discuss what we call "hot topics," substantive disagreements (task conflict) tend to trigger negative attributions about others' motives or abilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
should be a blessing in negotiation, of course. But picking the best possible deal takes careful planning. The set of techniques outlined here will put you on the right path. Beyond Batnas According to basic negotiation theory, Jim's BATNA—his best View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
follow if the core business is losing money. The distractions of managing a failing business complicate the challenges of succeeding in a new one. Therefore, pursue the hybrid alternative before the core business deteriorates to crisis... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
discussed. How should they respond to the disaster in the short-term? How can they assure customers they can handle future disruptions differently? And from the OEMs' perspective, do they need to change their product design to allow for the incorporation of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
Jones Abstract—This working paper suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
currency bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country accumulates reserves in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
from Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA) property, IPS implies individual behavior that is counterintuitive in the context of choice among similar alternatives. But models that alleviate the concerns raised by IIA, such as generalized extreme... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
cycles of growth followed by downturns. Policy instability grew as civilian-led governments alternated with de facto military governments. Eventually Chile, and to some extent Argentina, opened their economies to new wave of globalization... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
alternatives to expand its presence in online advertising, especially text-based pay-per-click advertising. Google dominates, and it is unclear how Microsoft can grow, despite considerable technical and financial resources. Microsoft... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
relocated to a larger store and is experiencing losses for the first time. Sales and costs have increased along with the breakeven point. Changes in pricing and promotion must be explored. Alternative actions to return to profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
conclude that the new function of replication has somehow supplanted the old function of arbitrage. Arbitrage and replication are distinct functions, and their cross-border potential varies from context to context. And more broadly, arbitrage is just one of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-063 Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018 No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower variability in the importance of their posts. We find evidence of two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
expertise of South African generic drug manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare are shown to be ameliorating misguided policy decisions by the South African government; communications campaigns, operational synergies, alternative distribution... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
an alternative to other investments," she says. Perhaps most telling is that large institutional investors, known for their caution, have been increasing their asset allocations to commercial property holdings. Until recently, says... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
certain circumstances; and they tend to be physically and psychologically distant from the companies’ activities. Joseph Bower and Lynn Paine examine the agency-based model’s foundations and flaws and its implications for companies before proposing an View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty