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- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Counterfactual simulations of our structural model show large gains from screening potential hires via psychometric measurement and training to improve managerial practices. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
capital. We examine productivity differentials between machine learning and older vintage technology based on interactions with two important human capital attributes: domain-specific expertise and vintage-specific human capital. Our experimental setting View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
to which citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs. Across two studies using laboratory and field data, increasing operational transparency improved citizens’ views of and increased engagement with government. In Study 1 (N=554), viewing a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Social Psychological & Personality Science Agent-based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists By: Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray Abstract—Agent-based modeling is a longstanding but underused method that allows...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
significantly. Both numerical simulations and a controlled experiment using regular and edited commercials provide evidence of the benefits of brand pulsing to ward off commercial avoidance. Implications for advertising management and...
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Martha Lagace
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Art Nature Business
a photograph of an actual flooded building, but rather of a table-top model the artist constructed that uses a special type of poured resin known as "E-2 Water" to create a simulation of a flooded space, which both challenges...
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- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used. Calibrated simulations using micro data from the United States show that optimal policy may simultaneously include substantial redistribution...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader (2013). The book focuses on CEO leadership in the global economy and the fast-changing IT-enabled pace of business. We extended the mechanism of Barton's living whiteboard to interludes in the book of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
criteria with which, as extensive evidence has shown, most people evaluate policy. In particular, if the classic principle of Equal Sacrifice augments the standard Utilitarian criterion, optimal tagging is limited. Calibrated simulations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
purchasing power parity terms and an income simulation based on a jointly estimated model of Indian earnings and participation in the workforce. The PPP methods indicate that the foregone income tax revenues associated with the...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
activities. New technology applications, for example, were instrumental in the rollout of FIELD in the MBA program. Computer-based modeling and simulation are used extensively in both MBA and Executive Education. The School must invest,...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
innovation? Through a formal simulation model, we show that an open approach to innovation allows the firm to discover combinations of product features that would be hard to envision under integration. However, when partners have...
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Martha Lagace
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
students to practice management skills in realistic simulated conversations. These will come in two forms. In 4 sessions, they will take place in class. Short vignettes will be distributed at the beginning of class, each based on a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
employees want to get together, either for fun or for collaboration. We have a program where you can sign up for speed-networking sessions—it sort of simulates watercooler talk—where you actually get randomly selected with another Veeva...
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- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
Telecom) must decide if launching Read&Go, an electronic newsstand built around an e-paper reader, would be successful. The case describes (1) Orange's strategy; (2) the company's new product development process; (3) e-paper technology, which View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13607...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
between the academic and the practical, case and theory, a curriculum that’s both broad and narrow in its focus. There was a competitive spirit in the classroom that simulates the way business is the WAC Written Analysis of Cases was not...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
recruiting?” And we’ve literally codified these relationships, and we run simulations around the organization, which allows us to do in a snap of our fingers what takes three months for most organizations to actually start to reconcile....
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- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
cheap and rapid iteration as cheap and rapid experimentation. The ability to run experiments cheaply and quickly is an important benefit when the cost of iteration is low. Simulation technologies, for example, allow automakers to run...
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin