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  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

PapersThe Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making Authors:Pablo, F. Casas-Arce, Asís Martínez-Jerez, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of providing forward-looking metrics on employee decision making. We use View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

Tarun Khanna, and Ashutosh Varshney Publication:Economic & Political Weekly Abstract It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

unusual organizational design. Examination of the different organizational designs, trade-offs associated with each organizational architecture as well as the accompanying implementation problems. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

  Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

So what, pray tell, is that great new model? Ink-stained wretches shill the notion that journalism can only succeed as a “business” if something or somebody else subsidizes it. They note the example of Bloomberg L.P., the financial data... View Details
Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

order. This paper considers the operational implications of “discretionary task ordering,” defined as the task sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2019
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Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

investors’ technical EiRs and/or network. When I was CTO at DigitalOcean, it was amazing to have someone like Martin Casado at a16z, our lead investor, to bounce ideas off of and even help us with some tricky architecture decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

I. Norton Abstract—This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Apr 2007
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Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

where the product can be delivered directly online such as software, travel agencies, or media. Indeed, the digitalization of content paired with widespread adoption of broadband Internet is driving a major shift toward digital distribution. ITunes, set up as a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

Schumpeter well. Perhaps more so than with any other economist, it is Schumpeter’s language, concepts, and intellectual architecture that business schools and businesspeople use today to define and understand what they do. Indeed, McCraw... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Modularity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company founders, facing the high ambiguity inherent in very early phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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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 for learning in the course of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

imminent new product and pricing plans, as well as its existing brand power, could greatly hamper AMD's growth and thwart its new initiatives—which included opening up its architecture for end users to customize and recast its brand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace