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- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
systematically give lower scores to research proposals closer to their own areas of expertise and to highly novel research proposals. We interpret the empirical patterns in relation to a range of theoretical mechanisms and discuss...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
seem like a big gap, but the raw numbers are substantial. Of the 5.65 million mortgage applications studied, some 10 percent, about 565,000, were handled by minority loan officers. The average applicant was 41 years old with $94,000 in annual income and a View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
and behaviors—not just your words—communicate the need for change; How to keep fanning the flames of urgency even after your transformation effort has scored some early successes. Written in Kotter's signature no-nonsense style, this...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
capital encourages business development." They gave a ranking of close to 6 before the crisis and 1.3 in 2014. To make things worse, credit rating agencies imposed filters that automatically downgraded ratings of Greek corporations...
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by George Serafeim
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
Professor Ryan Buell and doctoral student Moon Soo Choi caught my eye recently. Their study of a credit card offering to almost 400,000 customers of Commonwealth Bank, Australia’s largest, found that a typical promotion mentioning only...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
continuously learning from others and reinventing themselves. Let’s explore those in turn: Adaptability. Like many industries, the NFL has seen rapid growth and evolution over the past 25 years. Multiple rounds of rule changes have occurred in efforts to gin up View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
advantage. Most of these retailers allowed consumers to buy on credit. Many, such as Marshall Field's, issued a store charge card to good customers. Charge cards and other possibilities for buying cosmetics on credit were particularly...
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- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
Before completing the personal survey, some participants took a test called "Phind the phishing emails," in which they viewed screen shots of email messages and identified them as "just spam" or "phishing"—the common cybercrime of masquerading as a trustworthy source...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and creativity primes promote individuals' motivation to think outside the box and that this increased motivation leads to unethical behavior. In four studies, we show that participants with...
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Sean Silverthorne