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- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
people with different backgrounds for a portion of their work. Giving people a common task, especially a meaningful one, so that they depend on one another to accomplish it, is a proven method. It’s why I’m such a strong believer in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
rentals, their "dynamic inconsistency" is attenuated. We interpret our results as evidence that myopia has a meaningful impact on decisions in the field and that people learn about their myopia with experience, allowing them to...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
patient, few actually engage them in meaningful ways to help with prevention and wellness, shared decision making, provider choice, expectation setting ,and compliance. The problem is that practical skills such as cost accounting and...
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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
task forces' progress at various junctures to IBM's Worldwide Management Council. Gerstner and Childs followed up with the task force sponsors to ensure that the groups were gathering meaningful information and connecting it to the...
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by David A. Thomas
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
six visionary entrepreneurs through more than 250 years of history. All six built strong, meaningful brands and launched companies, often literally from scratch, which have endured to this day. The six include Josiah Wedgwood, the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
addition, we explore possible second-order effects, examining whether “liking” brands might cause consumers’ friends to view that brand more favorably. When consumers see that a friend has “liked” a brand, they are less likely to buy the brand relative to a more View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
with old ideas and patient with new ideas. That’s true. When we start trying a new program or service, it’s not going to roll out perfectly. We do have to give it a meaningful chance. And if it works after some learning, some trying,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
structures and systems, moving beyond macroeconomic, economy-wide, or single-factor microeconomic explanations of prosperity and development. But the analysis also reveals meaningful differences between the two: Most fundamentally, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
spending on groceries. Controlling for customer-fixed effects and other relevant variables, we find that grocery spending increases by $1.59 with the use of a $10-off coupon. In addition, even though the receipt of a $10-off coupon does not correspond to a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
stocks held by these funds have lower volatility, and flows out of these funds have smaller spillover effects on other funds holding the same securities. Our results provide evidence of meaningful fire sale externalities in the mutual...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
from its main competitors such as multinational Danone in that it is a 270-person workers' cooperative with 60 percent of its membership made up of mentally disabled individuals. Since its establishment in 1982, the organization has aimed to integrate the mentally...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
meaningful standard. In the same week that Everest was being littered with trash by one group while another band of hikers was organizing to pick it up, a different kind of record was being broken. Golfer Annika Sorenstam had beaten out...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and perceptions that is critical to performance) than making progress in meaningful work. If a person is motivated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered four major types of actions that reduce View Details
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
revealed eight key factors to prevent Olympic sites from becoming white elephants from the viewpoints of venue sustainability and Olympic legacy: removal of specific equipment like a track after the Olympic Games; reducing capacity after the Olympic Games; continuous...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
growth requires. This article explores six common mistakes that executives make in this arena: 1) Failing to provide the right kind of oversight. The CEO should spend meaningful time with the team and with potential customers; 2) Not...
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Anna Secino