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Patrick Connolly
learned during my first year in a stimulating and challenging environment. The school's inductive learning model and its simultaneous emphasis on developing extemporaneous communication skills and deep technical knowledge have been...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Given this, researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust patterns in the data that...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
functional form of the underlying model that best represents the data. Thus researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust patterns in data, allowing the researcher to engage in inductive or abductive theory building. ML’s...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department consultant and later was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. In...
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Garry Emmons
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract The strategy-structure-performance paradigm has developed a central role within strategy research. However, recent critiques of the paradigm have called for research that uses more appropriate measures of strategy and structure, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30
harmonization decisions. The analysis is based on field studies in three jurisdictions: Canada, China, and India. Across these jurisdictions, I first describe unique elements of domestic political economies that are shaping IFRS policies. Then, I View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12
harmonization decisions. The analysis is based on a field study of three jurisdictions in particular: Canada, China, and India. Across these jurisdictions, I first describe unique elements of domestic political economies that are shaping IFRS policies. Then, I View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
accountability and span of control to motivate different levels of innovation and entrepreneurial behavior. Six propositions are derived inductively about when, why, and how managers make these choices. Download working paper:...
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Anna Secino
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
understanding. A focus on time allows us to synthesize and extend the evolutionary and positioning models of strategic search. Toward this end, we couple induction and deduction. The inductive part of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26
influences risk-taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism about risks for the self (Study 1), preferences for gambles versus...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
paper, I inductively find that rather than based on rapid, nonconscious impulse, as much of prior literature would suggest, what investors call their "gut feel" is an elaborate "intuiting process." This process serves...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
rhetoric and symbolic activities in the process of creating new markets. This study analyzes how entrepreneurial firms use these cultural strategies to position themselves in a nascent market category they are creating. Using an inductive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
based industries and about the legitimacy-seeking activities of entrepreneurs in an industry that is transported from one part of the world to another, making it novel only in a new, limited geographic region. In this exploratory and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
understanding of systemic inequities and to equip them to create an equitable society rather than accept the status quo. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and her MA and PhD from...
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- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by 69 interviews with leaders of emerging market firms with histories spanning generations, we combine induction...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
a sudden work on a pizza oven. She doesn’t care about pizza ovens. She cares about her amplifier. FirstBuild’s goal is turning out 12 new products each year. By May, nine months after the microfactory opened, it had 5 on the market, and one of them—Paragon, an View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
first describe unique elements of domestic political economies that are shaping IFRS policies. Then, I inductively isolate two principal dimensions that can be used to characterize the jurisdictions' IFRS responses: proximity to existing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
brashness, and her disarming way,” says LeFrak, who first met Russo in Paris four years ago when they were inducted into the Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World organization. “I can’t say that she is the most driven person I have...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
expropriated? You’re sure? Now tell me this story.’ We went through a series of data points to find the insights. Only when you understood the granular detail could you see the larger inductive thought. “I don’t want to decide anything...
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