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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
benchmark setting, the marketplace mode is preferred if and only if the variance of local information exceeds the squared value of spillovers from marketing activities across products. We explore several generalizations, showing how the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
accountable to each other and comfortable speaking up, but there was significant variance depending on position, with higher-ranked employees, like physicians, generally feeling safer to speak their minds...
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,...
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- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
among your customers as you could ever hope to generate within your own boundaries. Accept the reality that they collectively know more than you do about whatever it is your company makes, that technology has almost completely...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
predict changes in the number of overall establishments and restaurants in County Business Patterns. Contemporaneous and lagged Yelp data can generate an algorithm that is able to explain 29.2% of the residual View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
Selling is changing, but broad generalizations and false dichotomies about ecommerce, big data, and other trends—hallmarks of current sales advice—are keeping business leaders from making sound decisions, says Frank Cespedes, author of a...
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by Kristen Senz
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
other hand, the age of companies does seem to matter, with older companies in general growing more slowly than newer firms. Next, the team looked at the issue of persistence—that is, how likely companies are to sustain their growth over...
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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining performance. A longitudinal study of multicultural MBA study teams found that in the early stage of team formation, teams with a low average level of, but moderate degree of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
algorithms developed for the same setting. More broadly, our paper contributes to the literature on the multi-armed bandit problem with resource constraints, since our algorithm applies directly to this setting when the inventory constraint is interpreted as a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
innovations that can be freely adopted by many firms. Firm-level volatility is affected primarily by the Schumpeterian dynamics associated with the development of R&D innovations. On the other hand, the variance of aggregate...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
within and across organizations. Despite its straightforwardness, this framework has generated debates concerning the definition of exploration and exploitation and their measurement, antecedents, and consequences. We critically review...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
governance; market participants and security analysts were, until the beginning of the 2000s but not subsequently, more positively surprised by the earning announcements of good-governance firms; and, although governance indices no longer View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Experimental Psychology: General The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts By: Morewedge, Carey K., Colleen E. Giblin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Much human thought arises unbidden, spontaneously intruding upon consciousness....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
Manufacturers generally classify products in terms of broad product lines, developing a single marketing strategy and production plan for each line. That makes sense for marketing, but it's a mistake for production. Different SKUs...
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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform updates and generating ideas and initiatives to monetize the use community. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
“combined leadership explained a remarkably high proportion of the success or failure of each team.” Just four leadership variables–quarterback, coach, general manager, and owner–explained 68.2 percent of View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
innovations generate heterogeneous innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and how the firm size distribution...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
generally not thwarted diffuse public interests in reducing emissions. Rather, it is differences in the broad public perception of need that explain most of the variance in emissions reduction we observe...
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Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
markets, such as the one for patents, generally create profit opportunities for intermediaries. We begin with an overview of the problems that arise in patent markets, and how traditional institutions like patent brokers, patent pools,...
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Sean Silverthorne