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- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
case is finally litigated, we may conclude that both involved criminal behavior. The comparison of loss of life and criminal activity between the two is so forced as to appear not only insensitive but also positively asinine. —Joe Hill View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
like MIT could not coalesce around DEC, as they did out in Silicon Valley with IBM and Stanford. Perhaps most importantly, our work and more recent work on knowledge diffusion demonstrates that knowledge flows along these collaborative... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
http://hbr.org/product/endeavor-miami-heats-up/an/814043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-050 MIT Mystery Hunt: The Answer Is Secondary The MIT Mystery Hunt is an annual puzzle-based scavenger hunt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Guilford Press, 2012 Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Order the book: http://www.icffr.org/Research/Research-Publications/ICFR-Publication---The-Making-of-Good-Financial-Re.aspx How 'Big Data' Is Different Authors: Thomas H. Davenport, Paul Barth, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management Author:Robert C.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
Increase Voter Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy, Pons and MIT PhD candidate Enrico Cantoni tested the impact of door-to-door candidate visits during 2014 municipal elections in Italy. “The motivation for the project,” Pons... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator is a partnership between the foundation, Harvard Business School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The alliance is working to eliminate... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a great performer at one company can replicate that performance at another," they... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
echoing Peter Glick's remarks on benevolent sexism as well as Amy Cuddy's on the stereotypical view of women as warm but incompetent. During the "Organizational Change" session, MIT Sloan School professor Katherine Kellogg (HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
monetary gains—but more risk-seeking towards positive experiences, such as eating desserts—as for monetary losses. These risk preferences for experiences are robust to different methods of elicitation. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective opportunity management eventually leads to loss of money,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
with Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf of MIT Sloan School of Management. The researchers focus on one of the most important technological shifts in recent years—the introduction of Amazon... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
advantage. To find out what works, Teixeira went directly to consumers, partnering with the MIT Media Lab and Waltham, MA-based Affectiva, which has developed the first online facial tracking system for testing advertising. The research... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
for instance, a judge in California is not obligated to enforce the contract because it conflicts with California state law. "There's a saying out in California: You never stop hiring someone," says Marx (MBA '05, DBA '09), now an entrepreneurship professor at View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
Dates interface was actually a project out of the MIT Media Lab from its Sociable Media Group. "It was a nice tool," Frost says. "It allows for real-time interaction; it has a cute interface for people to converse, gesture,... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/can-a-strong-culture-be-too-strong/ar/1 January 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei Abstract—Multisided platforms such as eBay and Facebook create value by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
have documented the existence of user innovation back to the monks" —Carliss Baldwin After all, who knows better how to improve a product or fulfill a need than the person who will ultimately benefit? For the better part of a decade, working with Eric von Hippel... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
potentially serious drawback threatened to stand in the way of further progress. As HBS Dean Kim Clark, and his colleague, Professor Carliss Baldwin, write in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, Volume I (The MIT... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
that makes continual learning part of business as usual. Cases & Course MaterialsThe Broad Institute: Applying the Power of Genomics to Medicine Harvard Business School Case 608-114 In June 2003, Harvard University and MIT announced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:In Japan's Bubble, Deflation and Long-term Stagnation, edited by Koichi Hamada, Anil Kashyap, and Davis Weisntein. MIT Press, forthcoming Abstract Why was the 1990s a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace