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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the championship match. Was the answer a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those differences View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

productivity and performance has been largely hidden or unnoticed or even ignored by economists and others. The philosophical discourse, and common usage as reflected in dictionary definitions, leave an overlap and confusion among the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

"Me-To-You Mindset" initiative that encourages partners to look at the world through their clients' eyes. At the end of the case Hever is reflecting on a proposal he submitted for providing CDC services to one of the largest UK... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

attention, overconfidence, and identity commitments-that affected the firm's ability to learn, attend to, reflect on, and dynamically respond to information and changes in its environment. Our longitudinal research reveals a downside of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

experience higher future growth in return-on-assets (ROA) with analysts failing to fully reflect this information in their earnings forecasts. Return prediction, growth in ROA, and analyst forecast errors are concentrated among firms with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications for the use of time versus money primes in discouraging or promoting dishonesty are discussed.  ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

with his young family. In October 2009, as they prepare for their departure to India, he reflects on how to spend his time there and whether and how to pursue the several business opportunities that have already emerged. The opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

challenge. The case helps students examine the implicit assumptions managers make in organizing work inside a factory. These assumptions reflect theories of worker behavior and motivation in combination with managers' beliefs of what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

they sample only a few songs. One possibility is that the current patterns of file sharing reflect consumer preferences. Consumers do not know the quality of new music and sampling one or two songs is good enough to assess quality and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

find that diversified firms increased in value relative to single-segment firms during the crisis, a result that is not driven by the endogeneity of either financing constraints or firms' diversification choices. We also find that the increase did not simply View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

day-to-day basis within individual projects. NASA did not take steps to ensure that the need to learn at the program level was reflected in the design of each mission. Hence managers focused only on optimizing their own projects, rather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

earns an average risk-adjusted return of 4.68% per year. Firms with central boards also experience higher future growth in return-on-assets (ROA) with analysts failing to fully reflect this information in their earnings forecasts. Return... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This highly readable and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

strengthened. These changes may reflect the growing role for the euro as a reserve currency in the international financial system. The risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

should immediately reflect their priorities for their daily lives. Silverthorne: Given how ingrained group conflict is, is divisiveness and thus decline inevitable—or is there hope? Kanter: A classic social science experiment at a boys’... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

banks. The ideas are reflected in remarks by managers, whether or not the actual terms are used. In many respects, they have become generic, which I suppose is the ultimate mark of usefulness. In all fairness, they are the product of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

extension to their worldwide businesses. These fears were exaggerated, but reflected alarm about the unpredictable ways in which the U.S.'s unique legislation was enforced. Secondly, there was a widespread belief that the U.S. market was... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

each distribution over the feasible subsets. Our rules can be interpreted as distance minimization-selecting the order closest to the population's preferences, using a metric on the orders that reflects the distribution over the possible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

judge the long-term rather than short-term regrets of others, anticipate their own regret at the distant rather than near future, and reflect on their regret regarding an actual past decision that they made in the distant rather than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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