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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
development, much like the move into dog food and supplements. Non-nutritional products are growing at a very high rate and now account for roughly half of SmartPak’s revenues. A retail location in Natick, Massachusetts, doubles as a kind of View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
beliefs about a group depend on the characteristics of the reference group. Because stereotypes emphasize differences, they cause belief distortions, particularly when groups are similar. In line with our predictions, beliefs in the lab... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
Technology Venture Immersion and Launch Lab I/II, guided me to achieve the proper mindset to start my own company. As I saw others fearlessly jump into their own ideas, I realized I really needed three key things to start a company: high... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that combines measures of vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
but also as a lab for many basic questions in finance. For example, multinationals must design repatriation policies for their subsidiaries around the world. Their incentives in doing so bear a striking resemblance to how firms design... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease progression. Next, collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
exchanges, McKenney says. The Institute’s founders consider the SIP an “innovation in progress,” a way to test theories about how best to bring timely research insights to those both on and off campus. “They were testing, iterating,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
discussed the question with Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), who had just launched Whitespace, a venture lab and startup incubator. The women then recruited fellow first-year MBAs Mike Chang (MBA 2014), Jessica Beck (MBA 2015), and Okalo Ikhena... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Abstract Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in financial instrument fair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
such as telecommunications and financial services are replacing the consumer goods industry as the testing ground of marketing innovation. To keep pace with these dramatic shifts in the business world, says Quelch, "marketing researchers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
the model before tackling the more competitive cities that the traveler-oriented services are blanketing. Testing a few big markets periodically will help confirm whether the return is greater by sticking to small and medium in the near... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Sigman Abstract—We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
make my R&D lab more productive?' Fleming says a better question to ponder is, 'How can I commercialize from this web of connected engineers?' Sara Grant: Can you describe your latest research for our readers regarding small worlds... View Details
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From Concept to Product | Baker Library
“which is the right experiment to test an hypothesis, and beyond that the intuitive sense for directing a chain of hypotheses and experiments into a course that leads to a precious new material that has never existed before,” director of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage View Details
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
incentives for them to work on a solution. And when I was thinking systematically about where else I could look, I discovered a company, InnoCentive.com, that took problems in R&D labs and broadcast them to outsiders. So the study was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Specifically, we test how individuals who have a responsibility to punish transgressions behave when confronted with the social norm of preferential treatment on people's birthdays. We first establish the existence of this social norm... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
serial entrepreneur, the New Mexico native ran his first business as an undergrad at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s. Selling medical lab tools from his dorm room and making deals using an old-school,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad... View Details