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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
key components for taking care of yourself after performing a necessary evil.” It is important to note, however, that we did not gather data about outcomes in this study, so we cannot conclude that any particular method of handling the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a “strategy formulation game,” in which such strategy endogenously...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Abstract—Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
role of firms as facilitators of globalization during the nineteenth century and more recently and as preservers of it when governments sought to close it down in the interwar years. However the ability of firms to shape the world was always constrained, especially by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008
foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 4 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes By: McGinn, Kathleen L., Mayra Ruiz Castro, and Elizabeth Long Lingo Abstract—Analyses relying on two international surveys from over 100,000 men and women across 29 countries...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016
Lee, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010, contained a number of provisions with potential to directly or indirectly affect cancer care. Value for patients was widely discussed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
probably partly allowed the industry to survive. Periods of idleness might coexist with intense overtime. During these times, outcomes that might appear minor—such as these homers—help sustain organizational effectiveness and the capacity...
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- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to precisely quantify the difference between how people enact warm versus tough communication styles. We find that the two styles differ primarily in length and their expressions of politeness (Study 1). Negotiators with a tough communication style achieved better...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
organization—a single understanding of its mission in the world and its place in the marketplace. While the elements of intimacy, interactivity, and inclusion serve to open up that conversation, the element of intentionality serves to "close the loop" on it. Among the...
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Re: Boris Groysberg
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
privately owned health care provider in Sweden serving both public and private paying patients. In contrast to most providers in the country, GHP organized around specific service lines where it saw the potential to provide the most...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
programs as a win-win-win scenario: compliance improves, regulators conserve enforcement resources, and firms save money. But this outcome can only be achieved if the self-regulatory activities of corporations can effectively substitute...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
candidates. We find that increasing the political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not...
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Anna Secino
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
is a powerful distinction to be drawn between two potentially profitable cross-border functions that firms can perform: arbitrage, which involves capitalizing on differences or distance between countries, and replication, which involves...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
choices to optimally guide the other choices." This definition captures the idea of strategy as the core of an intended course of action that is potentially flexible and adaptive. It coincides with the equilibrium View Details
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
for geographically distant participants, where the potential for improving alignment is greater. Lastly, we find some evidence that participants’ resource-constraints (potentially affecting unfairness concerns) impact View Details
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Sean Silverthorne