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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer's career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that instead created a global brand. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (21,651)...
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by Staff
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices. We model the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
volitional (experiments 2A and 2B) and are driven by decreases in trustworthiness engendered by decisions to hide (experiments 3A and 3B). Moreover, hiders do not intuit these negative consequences: given the choice to withhold or reveal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
"November Agreement." Since then, Michael has found an angel investor and has worked non-stop on the business, while one co-founder was off enjoying the winter break with his family and the other worked on lucrative consulting View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
firm financed the Miami port tunnel, paying a French construction company that used a German tunnel-boring machine, and another French company won the contract to operate Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subways and trains....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about global supply chains. We’ll also consider whether the US is on the brink of a domestic manufacturing renaissance and the hard choices that would entail. We’ll also parse the workforce and educational implications of artificial...
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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
information, we hypothesized that complex decisions can best be made by engaging in periods of both conscious and unconscious thought. In both studies we found that the sequential integration of conscious and unconscious thought solved complex View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
that helps him or her to fully understand the consequences of shoplifting and to make better choices in the future. The expense (about $320) is borne by the offender, although financial assistance is available to those who qualify. “Cost...
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- 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007
leadership position against aggressive competition in a rapidly shifting and uncertain technological environment. Traces the evolution and transformation of the company and highlights the difficult choices Thomson faces in an...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
crisis. From what’s been reported by the press, the crises in the past, he’s been able to bluster through. There may be different crises here, where it’s not a question of, say, talking firmly to your bankers. For the most part, it looks like he’s always had the View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
competitive imitation. Make it tough for rivals to copy your product-to-platform strategy: consider creating proprietary standards, using exclusivity contracts and erecting other barriers to competition. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the investor-VC contract is set before the VC finds any investments, we show that it is the entrepreneur who must compensate the venture capitalist for any extra risk in the project even...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Fall2023 Q1Q2 3.0 Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry General Management Michael S. Kaufman,Andy Pforzheimer Spring2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General...
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- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment. A negative value of concealment is possible and represents the event that rationally acting consumers respond to the additional uncertainty by purchasing fewer products. We develop a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument for the intermediary, thereby...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
requirements provided a major stimulus for the emergence of local firms in Germany and Spain. U.S. firms were unable to develop internationally competitive products partly because of a rush to capture lucrative contracts dependent on...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
choices upon graduation. This is particularly true for younger students, women, those from outside the United States, and students whose early career paths have not enabled them to reduce their undergraduate loans. Consequently, the...
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