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- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
that this deterrence effect is stronger for smaller companies and in institutional contexts featuring stronger activist pressures and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Examining the decisions of 2,043 firms headquartered in 42... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
inherent in the methodology. "We didn't know if a person was a first-generation immigrant; he or she could be second-generation," he says. "Then you get into things such as name changes due to marriage or, more problematic, names like Lee, which could be Chinese but... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
well-documented tendencies to be overconfident and to act on overly optimistic assessments (Thompson 2001). Interestingly, many people know that they have these tendencies, but fail to notice them in the context of a specific decision.... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
principles in a way that matches the context of the particular company, industry, and supply chain. EE: How would you summarize the program's takeaway value to participants? Or stated another way, how will this learning experience benefit... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
Science and Innovation Task Shifting in Surgery: Lessons from an Indian Heart Hospital By: Gupta, Budhaditya, Robert S. Huckman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—We present a case study that illustrates task shifting, the transfer of activities from senior to junior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
growth dilemmas facing Manish Sabharwal, co-founder, TeamLease Services Pvt. Ltd. TeamLease is a human resource outsourcing and temp staffing company located in India, which has grown rapidly from 2002 to 2009. Set in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
context in which they operate; to determine which CSR initiatives they should address; and to find the most effective ways of doing so. Perceiving social responsibility as an opportunity rather than as damage control or a PR campaign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
its network of food banks. It considers the promises and pitfalls of using market-based allocation in the context of a centralized artificial currency market and evaluates the importance of different design components in making the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
stochastic dynamic program to study when the value of concealment is positive or negative. We show that when consumers are myopic, the value of concealment is always positive. In contrast, we show that when consumers are strategic, the value of concealment is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the role of individual differences and social context in hypodescent, the process of assigning multiracials the status of their relatively disadvantaged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
significant advantage over other potential buyers. Taken as a whole, these findings suggest that the Delaware courts should generally permit go-shops as a means of satisfying a sell-side board's Revlon duties, but should pay close attention to their precise structure,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
This, in turn, had an impact on De Beers' reputation and consumer confidence in the diamond as a product that represented integrity, love, and commitment. In 2000, De Beers' sustainability depends on the ability of its leaders to shift the paradigm of both the firm and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
demand which underpin the link between the three characteristics of the inventory system: inventory levels, orders placed and actual demand faced. The perceptions framework is based on forecasting with Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) time series... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
by traditional models of decision making under uncertainty and highlight the importance of increasing the salience of unfavorable information in uncertain contexts to promote unbiased decision making. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
emotion regulation-mainly suppression and reappraisal-will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally charged contexts and that this effect will be mediated by the decision maker's decreased deontological inclinations. In Study 1, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
contexts navigated without great foresight. Instead, entrepreneurs can arrive at innovative ideas through the collaborative integration of a disparate set of local problems and solutions. By illuminating the goal formation process in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
attention has been given to how managers can effectively allocate work across tasks and time to improve workers' performance. In this paper, we use the learning curve framework to investigate how productivity varies within task and within time (i.e., over the course of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
explored in the context of advising a prospective investor with particular emphasis on why LLCs are increasingly "go-to" entities. The potential effect of choice of organization on litigation outcomes is illustrated using the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
roots to the present day, and examines the growth of Whole Foods Market in the context of the broader growth of the organic industry. Also investigates John Mackey's role as a founder and leader of the largest natural-foods retailer in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
conflict. But they will occur in a context of underlying trust, understanding, and partnership that has already been established. Effective managers use their networks to pursue plans and goals in four key ways. Do You Use Your Network to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace