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- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
describes the efforts of Beiersdorf, a worldwide leader in the cosmetics and skin care industries, to generate and commercialize new R&D through open innovation using external crowds and "netnographic" analysis. Beiersdorf, best known for its consumer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
Different Stakeholders? Authors:Michael Pirson and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Organization Science 22, no. 4 (2011) Abstract Prior research on organizational trust has not rigorously examined the context specificity of trust nor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
769-774 Abstract An examination of the role of research in business. The authors argue that scholars producing research in business fields are subject to stricter research standards due to the fact that they must produce work that is both View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
practices; and there is scant empirical evidence that any of these approaches really work (Pfeffer & Fong, 2002; Mintzberg, 2004). In short, the current state of leadership education lacks the intellectual rigor and institutional...
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- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
purchases of Australian land and real estate. As a foreign-owned company, AACo was likely to face more rigorous screenings and oversight as it grew. How could Dissanayake best manage Tavistock's investment in this new political and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
Abstract—Management-By-Walking-Around (MBWA) is a widely adopted technique in hospitals that involves senior managers directly observing frontline work. However, few studies have rigorously examined its impact on organizational outcomes....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
and New Methods Authors:Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The corporate governance literature of the past decade has focused on identifying drivers of superior or deficient corporate governance. One of the most rigorous...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016
traditional high schools. Superintendent Larry Mussoline, having for several years worked to incorporate technology into student learning, hoped that Ivy Academy would deepen student learning, provide more rigorous courses, introduce more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
time, we align these cases with a rigorous theoretical framework that clarifies the circumstances under which government intervention in the market can improve outcomes. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
implement a rigorous analytical framework for empirically evaluating the relative performance of firm-level expected-return proxies (ERPs). We show that superior proxies should closely track true expected returns both cross sectionally...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
& Education 6, no. 3 (September 2007): 345-365 Abstract As professional schools, business schools aspire to couple research rigor with managerial relevance. There has been, however, a concern that business schools are increasingly...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Comunale Abstract— This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
bad person through interviews and so on. And I think I started out at FreeMarkets with too much confidence in that area. So as a result, my team and I have made some mistakes in hiring. We have been humbled and realize that, boy, it's not easy. So we've become more...
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- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
teamwork and patient outcomes remain empirical questions in need of rigorous study. Objective: To identify and review survey instruments used to assess dimensions of teamwork, so as to facilitate high quality research on this topic....
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
take it from a traditional supplemental publishing company to a competitive player in the educational technology space. Waldron and the CA team-through innovations in curricular design, investments in technology, and a rigorous...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
overoptimistic assumptions embedded in that research. The bigger problem is that not all investors are able to rigorously study financial statement analysis and valuation, and given constraints on time, there will always be a demand for...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
They include some of the country's largest cities, including Boston, Chicago, Memphis, and San Francisco. Based on a rigorous selection process, the Harvard team invited the districts because each had a performance-improvement strategy...
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- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
discount the risk. Such an approach can be catastrophic. Firms that do a good job of dealing with ambiguous threats do not improvise during a crisis; rather, they apply a rigorous set of detection and response capabilities that they have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
ideas about improvement opportunities. However, the hypothesized link between WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we...
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Sean Silverthorne