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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
flash of creative insight, an Aha! moment in the mind of a genius. People apparently prefer to believe in the rugged individualism of discovery, perhaps because they rarely get to see the sausage-making process behind every breakthrough... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
entirely subsumed by the homogenized global. Convergence and homogenization was stronger in aspirations than in preferences for particular products or scents, which remained more persistently local, despite the spread of global brand... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
response to an ad-sponsored rival often entails business model reconfigurations. We also find that when there is an ad-sponsored entrant, the incumbent is more likely to prefer to compete through the subscription-based or the ad-sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
respect and understanding. The result? A healthy, productive bond that enables you both to excel. Gabarro and Kotter provide valuable guidelines for building this essential relationship—including strategies for determining how your boss View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
individual's behavior across different situations and over time (in the language of rational choice, character can be thought of as a stable system of preferences that informs the tradeoffs and choices an individual is likely to make in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
about entrepreneurship as an opportunity. As young faculty colleagues, he and Stevenson had become friends. “Howard was a curious, interesting, independent kind of guy,” says McArthur. “He preferred to pursue what interested him,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
had done. Instead, what Gluck did was take the world’s most prestigious and self-confident consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, and revolutionize it. Gluck joined The Firm (McKinsey preferred upper-case designation for itself) in 1967... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of default typical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
through the 1960s. Combining Equal Sacrifice with Utilitarianism better represents the preferences that people hold in the population at large, according to Weinzierl, and makes the theory's recommendations align much better with the... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
our credit card or for users who choose not to connect a card and would prefer to answer questions instead. How do we make those estimates more accurate or how do we account for things like the fact that a grocery bill should be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
still true today: eBay enables users to trade with other people without regard to time and distance. It makes inefficient markets efficient. What kind of communications devices do you use? I may be the last person on earth who does not have a BlackBerry. I View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appropriate required rates of return as a function of investor risk preferences and the underlying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
free-reign of bargaining power with no check upon it. In reality, courts cannot implement agreements costlessly, and parties often prefer to use "non-cooperative" implementation. We present a bargaining model which incorporates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
competition. Employees were given three months to find a job in HP and were helped to do so. If they could not find an equivalent level job, they were offered a lower level job. If they preferred not to take that job, they were given... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
Yet for a number of reasons their research rarely permeates into wider literatures. Q: Why does business history research remain in a silo? A: I think there are at least three reasons. First, business historians often write big books on big issues, whilst the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
beneficial for society. This theme was later replaced by preference for disciplinary knowledge, and finally by a market logic that regards business education as a marketable commodity rather than a professional education. It has been an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
the field about customer preferences for new products. Second, they learned how to function as a team to bring out the best in everyone (something they practiced in FIELD 1). Third, they learned a bit of humility by discovering that ideas... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they prefer to work for... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Danielle Abstract—Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne