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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
are harder to replace than those with lower coupling. The measures of coupling that best explain differences in IT agility include all indirect dependencies between software applications (i.e., they include coupling and dependency...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
benefits are often indirect and not immediately felt. One benefit of increased labor is improved quality. The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of labor on profitability through its impact on quality. I examine both...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
simultaneously manage the seemingly contradictory dualities of the job: integrating direct decision-making with indirect levers like strategy and culture, balancing internal and external constituencies, proactively pursuing an agenda...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
but some probably should not. In making their location decisions, some managers failed to understand hidden costs of offshoring, such as indirect costs of hiring and retention, supervision, and intellectual-property protection. We also...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that increasing product variety and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects corporate policy choices. Download the paper...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account both direct and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
For example, figure out flexible work schedules so employees spend less time jammed in traffic. Allow work-travelers to book direct flights—even if they cost a little more than indirect trips. Encourage employees to reward one another...
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direct and indirect investments that generated positive environmental and social impacts alongside healthy financial returns and had already invested in PEG’s Series A round the previous year. Should BHI commit to the Series B round? Key...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
from the Class of 1977 interviewed for this article, Fox came to the restaurant industry by an indirect path, but now finds himself completely immersed in its unique complexities and rewards. The National Restaurant Association projects...
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Hanna, Julia
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and have higher dividend yields. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) attended high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, going on to Harvard College as a scholarship student. He didn’t love his undergraduate experience, and struggled to find meaning in...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Demographic Changes By: Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino Abstract—This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
profits than the two-sided platform mode when the chicken-and-egg problem due to indirect network effects for the two-sided platform mode is more severe and when the degree of complementarity/substitutability among sellers' products is...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
or she provides through direct payments, it is also critical to incorporate the indirect value generated through the customer’s social influence. In this note we develop a framework for measuring and quantifying the social value that a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
aired (to an extent often absent even in today’s energy conversation). Energy Future also has this pertinent warning: “A large, sudden increase in oil prices would have serious indirect effects. It would exacerbate inflation, place...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Responsible Mining. Assessment of four necessary conditions for SDG contributions (goal alignment, rule strength, uptake patterns, indirect effects) suggest weak contributions to date. First, only the weakest versions of standards are...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
show that the more you reassure others that you'll protect their privacy, the more guarded and apt to lie they become. So be nonchalant when discussing sensitive topics. Cultivate leaks. People often reveal information unwittingly, so listen carefully for any slips and...
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Sean Silverthorne