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- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
addresses they need. Neither are Web sites demanding IPv6, because Web sites want to be reached by users, and users only run IPv4. In fact, it's even worse than that. Moving to IPv6 too early brings extra costs. For one, there are the standard View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
http://kuznets.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/KesslerRoth_OrganDonationAndAllocation.pdf The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, L. Pierce, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants to show that awards can carry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
increase reported revenues, matching the third-party estimate when provided. Firms also increase reported costs by 96 cents for every dollar of revenue adjustment, resulting in minor increases in total tax collection. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
slaughter the animals some of whose parts ended up in Unilever's pies and sausages. Unilever made its own packaging, and transported its products on its own trucks and barges. It owned the distribution chain that delivered its frozen products to retailers. It ran its... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
2013, Lance Armstrong admitted in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey that he "doped" in each of his record seven consecutive Tour de France victories, confirming the findings a few months earlier by the U.S. Anti-Doping View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
is extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant, or when the cost of processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
got to allocate resources from the rich to the poor," it would perhaps be better received. We are just talking about a process. Our argument is not "Rob the rich to pay the poor." Because we are attempting to create societal value, but allocating View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
the next time your talks seem stalled for deal-related reasons: Is price truly the only issue? Can we unbundle different aspects of what looks like a single issue and give each side what it values most—at low cost to the other side? Are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
a successful family as it is in building a successful business. He disagrees strongly with the widely-cited concept known as agency theory, which essentially posits that people work in accordance to how you pay them, and that external... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
cause different individuals to pay different prices. Real estate is the most imperfect of all asset classes. A simple example that illustrates imperfections in the real estate market is the high level of transaction costs involved with... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
the benefits of managerial expertise may be offered for purely private gain and that this is equivalent to advancing societal interests. Having given rise to the notion of making managers "think and behave like owners" through equity-linked compensation,... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
always lead to the benefits the organizations had anticipated. For example, many organizations anticipated that fundraising would be easier once they were larger. In fact, fundraising did not necessarily become easier with organizational growth, yet significant new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
it was an advertising bro fest, but also a reflection of the cultural norms of the time. After all, the 1960s was the dawn of the golden age of advertising when agencies were evolving from product pitchers to storytellers. That first... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
with his latest brilliant inspiration. For decades, advertising agencies have thrived on, and in some ways fostered, the idea of advertising as a creative black box. “I think the story here is how the industry has evolved and adapted”... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
medicine. They do not know if they received good value for the money. Partially as a result of this lack of transparency, increases in employers’ health care costs have outstripped inflation and workers’ wage increases for decades.... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
contracts.” In fixed-price contracts, the supplier provides a product or service to the government at a fixed price. In cost-plus contracts, the supplier bills the government based on reported production costs and profit margin, making it... View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
convert inadvertent users to future customers, especially when there are potentially multiple alternative suppliers. Were there alternatives to explicit legal threats that could be used to increase compliance? Luo and Mortimer began working with a stock photo View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
release date. Doing so, however, would negate cost savings achieved by reusing film copies across staggered release dates. Studios could also limit a film's distribution to digital, not analog, screens, the copies tagged with electronic... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace