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- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
novelty into a broad range of video entertainment and information content. TikTok today has the same quirky feel that YouTube once had. It is small revenue-wise, compared to YouTube. Although it does not report financials, plausible... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
817-145 Street League Skateboarding In 2013, Street League Skateboarding, a professional skateboarding league founded in 2010, just concluded its annual Street League World Tour. The growing action-sports property had purchased time on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Alarmed business and civic leaders coalesced around a loose-knit group that congregated annually as the Itasca Project. In 2009, these leaders launched the Itasca Jobs Task Force, and its 2010 report set in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
attaining quotas; and (3) quarterly bonuses help improve performance of the weak performers by serving as pacers to keep the sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
reports involving high-risk cardiovascular devices by linking regulatory review times for all 106 new, high-risk cardiovascular devices approved from 2000 to 2009 to subsequent adverse event reports. Reports... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
competitors. He also contends that downturns can provide a little flexibility because the pressure to deliver short-term financial results is lessened. When all companies are reporting poor results, acting to make your company look a... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Historically, assembling a dataset might involve delving through annual reports or archives that had not previously been organized into a format ready for research: in some cases, surveying stores,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
trust has always been important to consumers, in times of crisis, consumers’ desire to patronize trusted brands increases, with 60 percent of consumers reporting that they were finding themselves turning toward brands that they are... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
traditional agents. Realizing the narrow appeal of its initial model, Redfin had made significant changes to its strategy while maintaining some key distinctive choices. As of 2016, Redfin served in more than 80 markets throughout the U.S., employed over 700 full-time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
heightened uncertainty? While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early report of these emerging approaches, over the past... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
incentivized boards of directors may have played a role in protecting the interests of outside investors. Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:NBER Macroeconomics Annual (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
A tiny nudge can motivate big change. (Source: dziewul) Most governments aren’t subtle when they want citizens to do something. The United States spends close to $1 billion annually on advertising--trying to convince citizens to do... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
"inauthentic," "anxious," "uncomfortable," and "satisfied." Of the 165 lawyers responding, 62 were junior partners and 21 senior partners. The researchers measured the responses against each respondent's annual job performance, in terms... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team-the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers. Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
make matters worse, Park's two best analysts both requested significant raises after their annual reviews. Both women expressed their belief that they were earning substantially less than analysts at comparable firms and probably less... View Details
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
recent TNS study reported the leading activities of Internet users as: used a search engine to find information (81 percent); looked up the news (76 percent); used online banking (74 percent); looked up the weather (65 percent);... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
crisis successfully, growing 8.7% annually in 2010. Most of the unemployed workers had returned to work, often demonstrating for higher wages or better working conditions. Wen, however, was really focused on his new development... View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
annual salary offer of $115,000 is unfair on its own. They might be perfectly happy with that salary if it weren't for the information that it's below average." And it's not just a matter of money. In several studies of social comparison... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
items caught my eye recently. The first was the report from the Home Depot annual meeting contrasting this year's investor-friendlier tone set by the company's new CEO, Frank Blake, with last year's, led by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett