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  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

research has consistently demonstrated the benefits of multicultural experience for individual-level creativity, its potential advantages for collective creativity in culturally diverse teams have yet to be explored. We predicted that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

long-run consumption and dividend growth should be highly persistent and predictable from stock prices. BKY's calibration does better in this respect by greatly increasing the persistence of volatility fluctuations and their impact on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

previously untested cheating-as-stress-reduction hypothesis, we predicted a dose-response relationship between cheating and reductions in cortisol and negative affect. Taken together, this research marks the first foray into the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

  PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility functions that permit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

choices.— Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler The accuracy of color on the Web is of particular concern to consumers. A Web-based survey conducted by InfoTrends Research Group indicated that 88 percent of consumers would prefer to shop at an... View Details
Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

total—were more likely to understate their earnings in the two quarters prior to the election. Such "downward earnings management," as it is known in accounting, seems to have been motivated by the desire of contributing firms to not taint View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system maintenance costs, and hence to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

fixed-pie perceptions by suggesting that disputants may prefer proposals that are perceived to be equally attractive to both parties (i.e., balanced) rather than one-sided, because balanced agreements are seen as more likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare post-choice satisfaction from choices made by mind wandering to reason based choices and randomly assigned outcomes. Participants chose a poster by mind wandering or deliberating-or were randomly assigned a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

searches.) Studies show that customers prefer waiting when the work being done is transparent—even when the waits are longer or the results are no better than those obtained with shorter waits. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

documents/opim/seminars/Steffenson_McElheran_JMP_011408.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Management Science (in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

stick with practicing medicine. This essay argues that physicians currently in practice could be equipped over time with the management skill necessary to develop and implement new models of primary care. A Choice Prediction Competition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

Returns By: Greenwood, Robin, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne