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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
factor: the degree of the top management team’s (TMT) frame flexibility, i.e., their capability to perceptually expand an innovation’s categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally resonant with the organization’s...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that identifies the entire capital structure for 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 1998 and 2009 and that covers over 71,000 different...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
managers may be trying to categorize their firms as small firms when investors favor small firms. Purchase the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13762 Allocating Marketing Resources Authors:Sunil Gupta and Thomas J....
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
real benefits. I would categorize real benefits of these programs into four different buckets: Reward your existing, loyal customers, without incurring a major cost by doing so. Positively affect the behaviors of not-so-loyal (worst)...
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- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Diamond Horseshoe," theater-impresario Randy Weiner created "The Queen of the Night," a hybrid performance that combines food, opera, circus arts, and dance. While "The Queen of the Night" is the latest in a string of productions View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
have investment opportunities, you're not only going to get—but you're also going to want—foreign investments so that your country can grow faster. We generally categorize different types of foreign investment into portfolio and direct...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
barriers that TOTO faces in gaining adoption of an innovation. It also explores the role of product categorization in driving consumer behavior—in contrast to the U.S., toilets in Japan are considered a high-tech consumer electronic...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
Walmart: Segmenting Social Impact This case provides a sample of Walmart's social engagement activities and asks students to categorize each as philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, or creating shared value. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
announcement effects, and future returns, we find empirical support for the predictions in both time-series and firm-level data. Given the strong cross-sectional relationship between capitalization and nominal share price, an interpretation of the results is that...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
categorize as trust or litigate. Since I am an engineer and not a lawyer, I fall into the trust camp, but there are obviously minimal legal defenses that you absolutely have to build. If things become overly litigious, however, it really...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
continued success thereafter. Addressing ourselves to concepts in the management literature, we argue that strategy realized by the appeal of subordinates to the historical precedent of their superiors defies categorization as deliberate...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
develop a folding bicycle with the look and feel of a traditional bike," Tripsas remarks. "But if you mention a folding bicycle, most people conjure up an image of a small-wheeled, oddly shaped vehicle that they wouldn't View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
is comprised of an extensive collection of Harvard Business School cases devoted to information technology. Learning (Not) to Talk About Race: When Older Children Underperform in Social Categorization Authors:Evan P. Apfelbaum, Kristin...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
workload and patient length of stay (LOS) and its "spillover" effects across patient types. Patients are categorized as medical or surgical, and the effects of same-type patient workload (occupancy) on LOS are analyzed. The...
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Anna Secino
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
commensurable, which in turn is critical to enabling market exchange. For example, until the early 1990s, when 20th-century Indian art was generally characterized as "decorative art" in international art circles, it was View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
to outcomes. We assessed the learning curve for a new cardiac surgical center using precursor events (incidents or circumstances required for the occurrence of adverse outcomes). Methods: Intraoperative precursor events were recorded prospectively during major adult...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
effects on productivity a priori, inhibiting effective capacity management in high load systems. We categorize load into in-process inventory (congestion) and incoming inventory, decomposing the latter into its levels of bottleneck (BN)...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
firm can capture from innovation. Building on a number of case studies, this paper presents a simple framework for categorizing different collaborative modes. The framework is based on the notion that there are two critical dimensions...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
own roles accordingly. Categorizing IT in this manner can help leaders determine which technologies to invest in and how they can assist organizations in making the most of them. When More Power Makes You Worse Off: Turning a Profit in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
none of the passivity displayed by mass media audiences. This paper categorizes five roles for the interactive consumer and draws implications for marketing practice. It concludes that the balance of power over marketplace meaning-making...
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Martha Lagace