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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
considerable and remarkable strengths. I feel fortunate to have had his influence in my life.” The trade-off of public office is something Langford has witnessed firsthand—power comes with elected office at any level of government, but...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
some of our main values and make choices about society. Some of the biggest trade-offs we make are made when deciding tax policy. One of the things I've been disappointed about with the talk around this particular reform is that there...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
microfoundations, we find that increasing the number of potential matches not only has a positive effect due to larger choice, but also a negative effect due to competition between agents on the same side. Agents with heterogeneous outside options resolve the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
suggestions about improvement opportunities. Organizations face a trade-off with such suggestion-driven improvement programs. On one hand, the improvement literature recommends that managers focus organizational resources on surfacing a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Sharapova," consisting of Sharapova and her advisors at IMG, a leading sports, media, and entertainment agency. Contains rich data on the way in which IMG structures its sales process, and can serve to illustrate best practices and key View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
reduced margins and increased risks that come with entering a number of domains that already have established incumbents, and the trade-offs between maximizing shareholder return (for example through investments in full tariff power...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
renewal process. I was surprised when Kent Bowen approached me about doing a case. We were just a small manufacturer. I didn’t think what I did would be relevant in the classroom. But there were actually quite a few students interested in the practical decisions and...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
establish the product's technological trajectory. The resolution of the trade-off between the benefits of discovery and the costs of divergence determines the best approach to innovation. Can the Virtuous Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
trade-off between competitive price discovery and convenience. Evidence from eBay fits the theory: auctions are favored by less experienced sellers and for idiosyncratic products, and auction listings sell at a discount but with higher...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
made this business model profitable by making a conscious set of operating strategy choices (menu, meal design, service process, lay-out, reservation process) that reduce waste and inefficiency, while preserving quality. The case enables students to understand how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
internally between autonomous divisions must use some form of transfer prices and adjust the profit plans of the divisions involved. This module demonstrates the different ways of designing an internal transfer pricing system and explains View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
discover combinations of product features that would be hard to envision under integration. Open innovation, however, confines the ability of the firm to establish the product's technological trajectory. The resolution of the trade-off...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
research, 90 percent-plus of companies admit that. As you think about AI and the regulation of AI as it relates to hiring evaluation, what do you think the issues that people need to keep in mind, what are the trade-offs going to be...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Our findings illuminate the micro-foundations of innovation in firms by highlighting a trade-off between organizing patenting activity to maximize scope versus speed. Publisher's link:...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
leader in trying to set aside historical requirements for applicants and trying to shift more toward a phrase a lot of people use, “skills-based hiring.” Could you talk a little bit about the way you’re thinking about that trade-off and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
or trade-offs on some of these factors or dimensions. And then the other version would be that there’s not those trade-offs, but instead the ones that are weaker on this aspect could become stronger as well. So I’d love your reflection...
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risk and the use of different currencies. International capital flows imply additional policy challenges for countries as policy-makers face a difficult trade-off among three objectives: monetary policy autonomy, and stable fixed makers...
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