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  • 10 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote

McBoatface. Overruling the public’s wishes, NERC named the craft after British naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The public was outraged; newspaper editorials decried the lack of democracy, and citizens protested the unfairness of it all on social media. So much for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

rationalizes contracts that give depositors the right to obtain funds on demand even when depositors intend to use these funds for consumption in the future. This is explained by depositor overoptimism regarding their own ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

All in Good Time

image of a hard-driving entrepreneur who is on call around the clock doesn’t mesh well with the nonstop demands of family life. But that didn’t stop Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) from leaving a fast-track management position at Toys “R” Us... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; staffing agencies; parenthood; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

data for companies in 14 industries. The specific task assigned to the student is to use the balance sheet data along with their basic knowledge of the operating conditions and characteristics of these 14 industries to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    William A. Fairburn

    Fairburn revolutionized U.S. match manufacturing by using sesquisulphate to produce matches rather than white phosphorus, which had been publicly condemned for leading to poisoning. Under Fairburn, Diamond... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 26 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

    royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 08 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 8

    utility had made a public announcement it was accepting bids to implement a smart water network monitoring system, and Peleg wanted to discuss if and how aggressively TaKaDu should bid on the contract with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Jul 2013
    • News

    Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers

    In addition to traditional wine distribution in the United States, Cuffe made deals with several US airlines to carry Heritage Link wines. "Our first contract created 200 jobs on the ground," Cuffe says... View Details
    Keywords: wine; wine making; wine importing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
    • 12 Jun 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

    money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 03 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

    constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n = 31,160). By highlighting how... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 12, 2016

    Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore laws and regulations that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Feb 2012
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    First Look: February 7

      PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries'... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Jun 2013
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    First Look: June 4

    and organizations, leaving few left for newcomers and growth. In this context, some networks seek to sell the addresses they previously received-sales that can usefully transfer resources to the networks that most need them, but with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

    an additional factor: the degree of the top management team's (TMT) frame flexibility, i.e., their capability to cognitively expand an innovation's categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally resonant with the... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 07 Oct 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: October 7, 2008

    http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Oct 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

    both at a high level, based on objective criteria, and in accordance with company values, considered via managerial discretion. However, such plans could be counterproductive if enough participants (especially those who don’t win)... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 17 Nov 2009
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    First Look: Nov. 17

    individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users and also open collaborative... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 Nov 2016
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    November 22, 2016

    beliefs about a group depend on the characteristics of the reference group. Because stereotypes emphasize differences, they cause belief distortions, particularly when groups are similar. In line with our predictions, beliefs in the lab... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Feb 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: February 14

    markets have taken root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and the different perspectives for undertaking research with microdata from these labor platforms. Digital labor... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne