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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
event: gaining endorsement of the startup's technology standard, openly developing the startup's technology within the community (but not necessarily gaining endorsement), simply attending physical meetings of the community, and having...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
physically together during periods of temporary colocation and encourage asynchronous communication and knowledge codification. It is also important to plan for virtual watercoolers to foster informal social interactions in remote...
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- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
paper identifies performance pressure as a critical barrier to effective knowledge utilization. Performance pressure creates threat rigidity effects in teams, meaning that they default to using the expertise of high-status members while...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
cutting-edge research, this book illustrates how to identify and overcome the barriers that regularly stand in the way of change. Build Better Brains: A Leader’s Guide to the World of Neuroscience By Martina Muttke (AMP 179, 2010)...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
learning from parallel R&D projects in the setting of drug development. Leveraging the biopharmaceutical industry's unique characteristics to overcome barriers to measuring the project-level response to competitor news, I employ a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
original response, no one can decide in advance what that response should be. So the role of a leader of innovation is not to set a vision and motivate others to follow it. It's to create a community that is willing and able to innovate....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
in their own way. Five barriers in particular tend to keep promising managers from becoming exceptional leaders: people overemphasize personal goals, protect their public image, turn their competitors into two-dimensional enemies, go it...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
that determines whether two functions or firms can align their planning is how much each party knows about the other's beliefs about demand. Thus, in this paper's setting, improved communication can induce alignment even if no economic...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of scale generally have higher View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
ability individuals can be constrained from commensurate employment opportunities due to their geographic location. In the face of physical, informational, and social barriers to migration, firms with nation-wide hiring practices can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese negotiators can be at once warm hosts and...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
budgets. These include affirmative budgeting (full influence), consultative budgeting (moderate influence), and authoritative budgeting (low influence). When organizations communicate that employees will be involved in budgeting,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
year. Being so remote, it really led to many of my friends struggling to find internships and jobs while they were in school. My dad was in construction. My mom was a secretary. I went to community college for two years to pay my way...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
turnover and limited opportunity confronting the more than 4 in 10 American workers in low-wage jobs. We’ll talk about the disconnect between workers and employers, barriers to advancement, and importantly, how to break the cycle. Welcome...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
skill or adding a credential, although there are a lot of barriers to people doing that. There are issues also of people’s life circumstances changing. A significant percentage of hidden workers are active caregivers for kids, for...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
have on-demand workers as integral to important projects. They’re unused to structuring work that way. We wanted to understand how companies were accommodating this, what barriers were they bumping into, how different levels in the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
profiles that different companies have.” So, for example, retail firms are very good at removing barriers to entry in hiring—they hire people without degrees, they hire people without experience, they give them skills, and people find...
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