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  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

faced with ethical dilemmas. The first study tested the hypothesis that a naturally creative person is predisposed to dishonest behavior. (The week before the experiment, the participants, 71 university... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

voting. Moss offers a simple analogy: Imagine you want to test a theory that punches cause stomachaches. If you examine the data and find that some people get punched without getting stomachaches, and that others get stomachaches without... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

which made it to the “refinement” stage, including Regan’s. “The hypothesis that we are testing is that if a complex legal brief is viewed firstly as a bundle of tasks to be integrated to create a customer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

  Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

through the cracks.” Fixing By Walking Around The program the researchers tested was modeled on Allan Frankel's "Leadership WalkRounds," which has been shown to improve safety in various medical facilities. His View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

time. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235126 Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

person in need, which, in turn, increased intentions to help. Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis Authors:Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Annual Review of Financial Economics 3 (December 2011)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

products can get from a hit's popularity. Economic Links and Predictable Returns Authors:Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper finds evidence of return predictability across economically linked firms. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

global cash flows: to achieve resource independence from other state actors. In the context of state-owned entities, the power-use hypothesis of standard resource dependence theory can be used to analyze the dependence of SOEs on other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

outsiders? We study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

humblebragging garners negative impressions because the strategy seems insincere, compared with pure bragging or pure complaining. They tested the hypothesis in a series of five studies, detailed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

factor keeping people home. This hypothesis was tested when lockdown orders expired, and restaurants started reopening late spring. Sales nationally rebounded by 31 percent in May and 27 percent in June as... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage
  • 02 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

quarterly and generally with less scrutiny from higher-ups. The researchers wanted to test their hypothesis that casino hosts in loosely monitored, more hands-off management structures were more successful... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

the employee onboarding process, Gino says. The researchers hypothesized that companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

local standards in the 2003-2008 period? We test the hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network effects from the extant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four studies, participants practiced novel rituals at home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne