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- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Jon and Lawrence saw this chaotic space as fertile ground for entrepreneurship. But the routes these entrepreneurs chose to take were different. "Killing Craigslist" explores the business Jon and Lawrence built to improve the online rental View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
when it was followed by a negative consequence. In addition, they judged the behavior as more blameworthy and to be punished more harshly. Participants' ethical judgments mediated their judgments of both blame and punishment. The results of the second View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
accruing earnings for a charity instead of themselves, more targeting behavior and a more sluggish response to incentives should result. Results from an additional experiment add support to this explanation. When individuals select into...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer Publication:Natural Experiments in History, edited by Jared Diamond and James Robinson. Harvard University Press, forthcoming No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that user responses and attitudes towards TOC are influenced not only by the technical features of the system and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
security company, with classmate Matthew Prince (MBA 2009), five years ago. For Zatlyn, who oversees user experience at CloudFlare, the trend is encouraging: “I don’t want to discourage women from getting...
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April White
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
low-wage workers or those who had been advanced explain their experience of employment. What help was effective from employers? What were employers actually doing in their view, versus areas where the employers might be either fooling...
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- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
with other historical examples, suggesting that the key to understanding technology diffusion lies not only in explaining the number of different users but also in explaining the number of different uses. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who experience an economic shock have less need to reduce consumption, and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar to Apple Health). The...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
audit the way their process works. I hope also that considerably more effort is put in to understanding the user experience of a job applicant in responding to a request over long descriptions that are very...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
United States around 1900, and the initial "wow" factor that visitors experience when entering these buildings is often a partial reaction to the scope and beauty of their architecture. There is nothing like walking into the Field Museum...
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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
with tools for identifying and solving these problems, engage their employees and suppliers in their improvement efforts. Q: Your book notes that typical stores experience staff turnover of 100 percent each year. How do you see successful...
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- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
simulated whether DPD or NEAD chains would produce more transplants when chain segment length was limited to three transplants and reported that DPD performed at least as well as NEAD chains. As this contrasts with the experience of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
up and helping them find the actionable steps that pull on the best of what the innovation sector knows at the moment. The goal is to give them tools in their pocket that they didn't have before. For entrepreneurs at the early stage, I help them think about who their...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
entrepreneurs primed Enan for a career in venture capital. So did her experience at the EAEF, which invested in early ventures that are now household names, like Fawry, cofounded by Magda Habib. "I'd always heard about Magda and how she...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
related to per capita income. We also find that economic conditions affect conflict dynamics, as poorer countries are likely to experience longer and more intense spells of fighting after the onset of conflict. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
told General Medina. He was a CFA with experience in international business, and now he had spent four years in one of the most taxing leadership positions imaginable. But he needed General Medina to support his petition to end active...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Neurosmith. In many ways, Abercrombie was at the right place at the right time. The price of computer chips was plummeting, making it possible to deliver a lot of learning at an affordable price. After researching how children learn, View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
adopt integrated reporting? A: The experience of the German chemical company BASF provides an excellent model to follow. Understand stakeholder information needs—that is, answer the questions, What information do stakeholders need? What...
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by Martha Lagace