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more productive." [New CEO] Greg Dyke virtually eliminated consultants at the BBC to force managers to think for themselves.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter Invensys's leadership team acted on this theory by adding new groups and roles,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

22 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel

14 Aug 1996
Keynote Speech

Business Ethics: From Principles to Practice - Closing the Ethics Gap." Seminar leader. "Executive Seminar sponsored by Universidad de San Andres, Department of Management

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Theory; Practice; Ethics

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1992
Book

Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis

By: A. E. Roth and M. Sotomayor

Keywords: Game Theory

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The Price of Anarchy of Self-Selection in Tullock Contests

By: Hau Chan, David C. Parkes and Karim R. Lakhani

Crowdsourcing platforms operate by offering their clients the ability to obtain cost-effective solutions for their problems through contests. The top contestants with the best solutions are rewarded, and the submitted solutions are provided to the clients. Within the... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing Contests; Game Theory

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1999
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Ethical Universals in Practice: An Analysis of Five Principles

By: M. C. Moldoveanu and H. H. Stevenson

Keywords: Ethics; Practice; Theory

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Personal Investing: Advice, Theory, and Evidence

By: Z. Bodie and D. B. Crane

Keywords: Investment; Theory

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11 Mar 2015
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Curbing Adult Student Attrition: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Raj Chande, Michael Luca, Michael Sanders, Xian-Zhi Soon, Oana Borcan, Netta Barak-Corren, Elizabeth Linos, Elspeth Kirkman & Sean Robinson; Education

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

Summing Up The patience of our readers is being taxed. But some nevertheless took the time to voice opinions about whether we are, in general, becoming more impatient. The general conclusion is that we are. And they lament the phenomenon. As one reader put it, "We... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Oct 2008
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Nameless + Harmless = Blameless: When Seemingly Irrelevant Factors Influence Judgment of (Un)ethical Behavior

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu & Max H. Bazerman

08 May 2006
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

No one likes to waste time standing in line. So why don't more people try to bribe their way to the front? Should companies allow some customers to move to the front of the line for a hefty fee? Is there a market for time? Felix Oberholzer-Gee began to ponder this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne