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- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
scientists Michael Norton and Francesca Gino found that rituals alleviate and reduce grief after a devastating emotional loss—even among people who don’t inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. In short, people who performed...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
competitive markets—and the importance of realizing when a policy is what creates intense market competition in the first place. "If regulators care about the efficacy of these policies, they should be oversampling their inspections...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
what should we believe? Have we, as managers, been led down the garden path of the efficacy of customer loyalty management efforts? Would we, in fact, be better off concentrating our efforts on other initiatives? Is Treacy exaggerating...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
each patient panel as well as the efficacy of the treatment. “Our results suggest that the lack of representation in clinical trials leads Black patients to miss out on the latest drugs and medical treatments.” For the drugs that were...
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- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
information regarding diagnosis and prognosis, predict treatment efficacy or toxicity, serve as markers of disease progression, and serve as auxiliary endpoints for clinical trials. Some have multiple uses, while others have a specialized...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
capabilities, such as conducting detailed quantitative analyses; connections, such as peer networks and team-based affiliations; confidence, such as learning-based efficacy (or confidence in my ability to learn); and cognition, such as...
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by Mallory Stark
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
initiatives are fulfilling their desired objectives. By being able to more rigorously evaluate compliance programs with data and empirical analysis, prosecutors and courts will be able to more readily discern “window-dressing,” and firm managers will be able to better...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
"reorganizing" and "incentives" is usually the primary prescription if and when strategists even discuss sales. On the other side, there is a vast amount of anecdotal advice, mainly from consultants and trainers who believe in the universal View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor Treating fields, for the treatment of cancerous tumors. The therapy has shown significant View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
effectively, fulfilling those responsibilities, in a complex situation. Decisions facing the company include how to sustain credible research on the drug's efficacy and safety, how to increase manufacturing capacity to meet expected...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
from the CEO—a process entailing the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation (RPE). We evaluate the efficacy of firms' chosen RPE benchmarks and document that, relative to a normative benchmark, index-based...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
have attracted substantial consumer interest. Other large merchants can also handle their own offers; the Groupon-style brand and infrastructure are most valuable to smaller firms. Q: Explain how the efficacy of Groupon will change in the...
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- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on...
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by Jim Heskett
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from social comparison and overconfidence reduce the efficacy of individual performance-based compensation, building...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
measures' informativeness about managerial effort and talent depends critically on the judicious selection of peer firms as performance benchmarks. By evaluating the efficacy of firms' chosen relative TSR benchmarks in performance-based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
can increase, decrease, or remain unchanged due to a carbon tariff. Therefore a carbon tariff's general benefit is not protectionism disguised as climate policy, as some argue. Rather, a carbon tariff improves the efficacy of emissions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
and confusion confound the four phenomena so that the efficacy and potential power of each is seriously diminished. We show that defining integrity as honoring one's word, as we have defined "honoring one's word," 1) provides an...
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Martha Lagace