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Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Building Web 3 Businesses Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Spring2025 Q3 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) Natalia Rigol Benjamin N. Roth Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom...
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- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
unusual organizational design. Examination of the different organizational designs, trade-offs associated with each organizational architecture as well as the accompanying implementation problems. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
order. This paper considers the operational implications of “discretionary task ordering,” defined as the task sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter well. Perhaps more so than with any other economist, it is Schumpeter’s language, concepts, and intellectual architecture that business schools and businesspeople use today to define and understand what they do. Indeed, McCraw...
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- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
I. Norton Abstract—This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
it), the development cycle is significantly shorter. Proponents of OSS claim that if this demand-side learning (as we call it) is sufficiently strong, OSS will oust traditional software. In addition, software engineers claim that the better View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Modularity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
where the product can be delivered directly online such as software, travel agencies, or media. Indeed, the digitalization of content paired with widespread adoption of broadband Internet is driving a major shift toward digital distribution. ITunes, set up as a...
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- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
coevolutionary model of technological frames and the technology life cycle to explain sources of variation in the era of ferment, conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
imminent new product and pricing plans, as well as its existing brand power, could greatly hamper AMD's growth and thwart its new initiatives—which included opening up its architecture for end users to customize and recast its brand...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early twentieth century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company founders, facing the high ambiguity inherent in very early phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
in the past and now influence clinical trials and participate in regulatory decision-making. Yet these developments are far from universal and are taking very different forms around the world. Building on data showing that pharmaceutical...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
digital world," elaborates Upton, a Technology and Operations Management professor with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. The current initiative began with the refitting of the School with an open architecture using Internet-based...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the potential benefits of variation in team member experience by alleviating coordination problems that such variation may create. We use several years of detailed project- and individual-level View Details
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Martha Lagace