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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
use process mapping and time-driven activity-based costing to measure the costs of treating patients over a complete cycle of care for a specific medical condition. With valid outcome and cost information, managers and clinicians can...
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Sean Silverthorne
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By: Roberto Verganti
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection...
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- 18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18
Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the initial stage of socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Article The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology by Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter As the diffusion of...
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- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
within the organization. "Rather than being pulled by user requirements," he wrote recently, "design-driven innovation is pushed by a firm's vision about possible new product meanings and languages that could diffuse in...
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- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
where the persistence of macro series originates from endogenous technological change mechanisms such as endogenous research and development (R&D) and/or endogenous diffusion of technologies. This evidence includes new estimates of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
Africa had accounted for 33 percent of global liabilities. In the 1990s, they accounted for 11 percent.2 World trade barriers were reduced under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) signed in 1947. This View Details
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by Geoffrey Jones
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Business History - Faculty & Research
production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing its patent attorney system. In accordance with Lamoreaux and Sokoloff's...
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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced in the past. Despite recognition's centrality to strategic choice, we have limited knowledge of its nature and its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
across merchandizing, store operations, and segment owners, senior leadership at Best Buy saw to it that the entire organization embraced an outside-in approach. Q: How long does this process generally take? And what are the benchmarks of...
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- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
vaccination efforts. In contrast to the product-centric view employed to develop and distribute the vaccines, the shots-in-arms problem of convincing people to be vaccinated requires patient- or customer-centric solutions. [div class=infogram-embed...
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- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
knowledge, and expertise—the key resources required in the development and diffusion of innovation worldwide. So this increasingly important capability really is about using one's global presence to promote worldwide innovation and...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
the individual work activities that create intermediate products, services, and information. In essence then, the people who work in an organization that produces something are simultaneously engaged in collaborative production and delivery and are also engaged in a...
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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Management Journal, January 2020) was selected for inclusion in the 2019 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Frank Nagle: Received a Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative Grant with Karim Lakhani in 2020. Frank Nagle: Recipient of a Sloan Foundation...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
errors when making decisions. Fortunately, behavioral economics offers tools to help people reach better outcomes. By changing the environment in which choices are made, for example by changing the process used to select options from a...
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- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
services. “The process of creating those specialized inputs creates new knowledge, which eventually leads to more innovation,” Mills says. Supply chains have a large number of linkages to many different downstream industries. “They have...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For...
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- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
work on knowledge diffusion demonstrates that knowledge flows along these collaborative relationships, even years after they were formed," says Fleming. At the same time, the world of inventors "is getting smaller," he...
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