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- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
personalized "happiness" recommendations to employees, and he was considering other ways to automate the model to bring it to scale. He was confident that the new technology had the power to transform employee happiness and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax policy. As recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds Abstract—Background: Routine annual...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
books, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, maintains that too much economic theory, formed by "Econs," is based on the behavior of homo economicus (economic man, someone with the knowledge and inclination to optimize solutions...
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by Jim Heskett
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the by-product. Optimization of a by-product...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
predictions. Specifically, abnormal returns to two proxies for private information (insider purchases and analyst recommendation upgrades) are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are obtained for subsamples that further...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
sell-side analysts employed at state-owned brokerages issued relatively optimistic earnings forecasts and stock recommendations during these periods. This relative optimism is particularly pronounced in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge previous View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of analyst research. We find evidence that analysts outperform on their stock View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
maybe they don’t. Why don’t we collaborate on an experiment testing their impact?” That was music to Donaker’s ears. Yelp had run experiments to optimize advertisements and had consultants try to figure out the impact of ads. But in the...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
the code, which increases quality and value creation. Opened modules, however, are available for others to use free of charge. We derive the set of possibly optimal business models when the modules of the firm and the open source...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim offer an introduction to the best methods for consuming data. In this excerpt, Davenport and Kim discuss multiple ways to tell a story with data, "the best way to communicate results to nonanalytical people." The authors...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
the detrimental effects of each trigger. We conclude by discussing implications and recommendations for organizational scholars to take a more integrative approach to developing and evaluating theory about unethical behavior. Learning...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
employees are asked to input their desired annual income in retirement. If they are not sure, the recommended target to maintain one's standard of living is around 70 percent of your annual income earned in the last few years of your work...
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- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Fund's Ethics Council. According to a spokesperson of Norway's Finance Ministry, "The recommendation to exclude Wal-Mart cites serious and systematic violations of human rights and labor rights." Before making its View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
decrease, allowing the club to increase the number of memberships it offers. Q: What do you think of price-optimization software? Can software effectively gauge the market and maximize profit margins? What would you recommend to business...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
shouldn't wait for policy; they should act now to become early movers in leading these changes. Context Professor Porter, having conducted in-depth research and analysis on the U.S. health care market, discussed his conclusions on the industry's problems and View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names. The changes appear non-random across brokerage firms, analysts, and tickers, and have a significant impact on the overall distribution of View Details
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Martha Lagace