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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Workers By: Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor Abstract—While there has been a lot of research on finding and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers who are harmful to organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
the supply of capital create the need for increased upfront financing, but this protection lowers the real option value of the new venture. In equilibrium, financing risk disproportionately impacts innovative ventures with the greatest real option value. We propose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
Novices sometimes veer to one extreme or the other, delivering the hard news without the compassion, perhaps to demonstrate their toughness or ability to handle the task, or succumbing to a burst of sympathy that causes them to cushion... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
“Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance.” Less obviously, the drives to comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
ground running as a board member. I think it must’ve been extremely difficult for people like Tosh to get an understanding of the business and to build relationships with all of the people and really to be an effective member of the team,... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
“Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance.” Less obviously, the drives to comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
forthcoming World Happiness Report Happiness and Prosocial Behavior: An Evaluation of the Evidence By: Aknin, Lara B., A.V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Abstract— Humans are an extremely prosocial species. Compared... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
contrasts the tradition-bound Old World wine industry with the market-oriented New World producers in the battle for the Chinese wine market in 2015. China’s wine consumption growth presented a large and fast-growing export target that was View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
is extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant, or when the cost of processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
think, “How can we help each other?” You’d expect someone like this to be very transactional, with a very high sensitivity to perception of current events, with a very high sensitivity to perceived financial prices, if not the inner workings of the financial market,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Agenda Setting Authors: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Abstract We examine a multi-issue dynamic decision-making process that involves endogenous commitment. Our primary focus is on actions that impact delay, an extreme form of lack of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
when the ECB's Governing Council reconvened on April 10, 2008. Given both the market turmoil and the evident inflationary pressure, members of the ECB's Governing Council would have to weigh the available data extremely carefully as they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
offensive. Coppa was awarded Bronze Stars for his service in both Afghanistan and Iraq. We moved out of Kuwait on March 21. It was extremely hot and dirty. Everyone understood the position that they were in — you know you’ve got to get... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
of orders suddenly dropped close to zero—many customers had double- and triple-ordered due to shortages caused by the oil price extremes of that decade. I learned two things: (1) a backlog of orders can be illusionary and (2) if your... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
actually far riskier than originally advertised. We examine how the process of securitization allowed trillions of dollars of risky assets to be transformed into securities that were widely considered to be safe. We highlight two features of structured finance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
one end are the Altruistic Motives aimed at benefiting others rather than the partners themselves. At the other extreme are the Utilitarian Motives that focus on the benefit to the partner rather than others.1 In either case, there is the... View Details
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this generation of AI could destroy human society. Others have said that it could create a global utopia by solving intractable problems like climate change, ending the need for humans to work for a living and bringing the cost of energy to zero. Why are normally... View Details