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- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
issue. For instance, a car owner who finds a great mechanic through Openbay may just call the mechanic directly the next time her car needs a repair, rather than book a repair through the system. And a dog... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Warikoo presents "The Diversity Rationale: A Mechanism for Inclusion or the Master’s Tool?" at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium: The Master's Tools: Exposing, Rejecting, & Appropriating Natasha Warikoo presents "The Diversity Rationale:... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
There is a temptation to explain the wide variety of approaches as a characteristic of the early stage of development in which the genre resides. Based on the evidence of three case studies, this paper explores the mechanisms that guide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
nature of the wearables market. Q: Any closing thoughts? A: If you think about the traditional watch industry, Apple's competition is not the Swiss. Since the 1990s, Swiss watch manufacturers have repositioned mechanical watches as status... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
amounts of internal energy go to 'making the quarter return' rather than serving the customer and building the future. Why did quarter returns develop in the first place?" Bill Hubbell added, "The market has many mechanisms to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
virtual-reality headset with 3D spatial sound design, invites the audience on a journey of self-discovery. “We think that showing people something they’ve never seen before is the best mechanism to inspire awe or wonder, or to expand... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
poll. This spring, the second annual poll garnered an impressive 92 percent response rate among first-year students. Moret was first drawn to student affairs at Louisiana State University, where he had been admitted on a music scholarship and ultimately studied View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
holders for your stock because they do not trade much. Getting back to Japan, the stock splits can be thought of a form of float manipulation. By limiting the number of shares on the market, and making it difficult to sell, prices can only go up. A similar View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part of a research team were more engaged and satisfied with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
some time in training before they can legally sell their services. These requirements are meant to screen out low quality providers. So fundamentally, occupational licensing exists to increase consumer trust in service providers, just like online reputation View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
shuttle disaster to explore the relationship between data visualization, effective communication, and decision-making. Students review and analyze excerpts from the 13 charts engineers presented to NASA executives the night before the launch about past launch... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
more coordinated regulatory approach to oversight of financial services. Industry should be included and at the table to ensure that they have a consistent mechanism to provide feedback and advice on how any new regulation will hurt or... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
by standard economic models, this paper shows that an additional mechanism is relevant: the use of risk as an excuse not to give. In a laboratory study, participants evaluate risky payoffs for themselves and risky payoffs for a charity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
knowledge, mechanical comprehension, and assembling objects. They were asked to guess their total number of correct answers, as well as how their performance compared to others. A woman who actually had the same score as a man estimated... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
explore the mechanisms underlying the relationship between managerial discretion and future performance. Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016 By: Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent Pons Abstract—... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based principle. Though the Amazon View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
repairs, in addition to billing for repairs to the personal vehicles of district employees, for a total of $785,195 from 2005 to 2017. The mechanic and his wife—neither employees of the district—also received full health benefits from... View Details