First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
Is it better to start with the low-hanging fruit on your task list? ... Fixing meeting misery ... Do carbon tariffs work?
View ArticleWhat Jane Austen and Mel Brooks Can Teach Us About Finance
Mihir Desai links the fundamentals of finance to several centuries of literature, history, philosophy, music, visual arts, theater, and comedy to make the subject seem less mystifying—and more...
View ArticleTask Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term...
Employees facing increased workloads usually tackle easier tasks first. This study by Francesca Gino and colleagues tests the performance implications of such prioritization. Findings show that it...
View ArticleCatering Through Disclosure: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect
Aaron S. Yoon studies firms’ use of disclosure to build investor confidence when they operate in a market where the institutions that support the supply of credible information are weak. He finds that...
View ArticleThe Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market
How information is generated by market participants, shared, and incorporated into prices is one of the key questions for understanding how financial markets operate. This study by Marco Di Maggio and...
View ArticleOp-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
A new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance, says Bill George.
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
The creative habits of ordinary people ... Pursuing innovation at Polaroid ... Do we know how to improve bad working conditions?
View ArticleWhy Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
Analysis by John Beshears and colleagues finds that “nudges” can be a cost-effective way for governments to get their citizens to do the right thiong.
View ArticleOrganizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global...
Suppliers face increasing pressure from the institutional environment as well as demands from buyers to improve working conditions. Yanhua Z. Bird, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel analyze the...
View ArticlePeople Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
People are irrationally motivated to complete arbitrary sets of tasks, donations, or purchases—and organizations can take advantage of that, according to new research by Kate Barasz, Leslie John,...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
Banning protections on M&A deals...Effectively measuring the patient experience...Considering the efficacy of 'quadratic voting.'
View ArticleIt’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Navigating complex relationships and understanding unwritten processes are among the many challenges of of transitioning a family-owned business to the next generation. Len Schlesinger, Michael Raiche,...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of Everyday Creativity
Teresa M. Amabile describes the most compelling research trends around creativity and innovation. It suggests that 1) creative behavior of ordinary individuals is likely to become more important to the...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
The surprising consequences of brand flirtation ... Is the Watson strategy working at IBM? ... What managers owe society.
View ArticleBusiness History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence
Among economic historians, the Great Divergence means the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The more recent Great Convergence is a...
View ArticleMachine Learning Methods for Strategy Research
Marketing, logistics, knowledge flow analysis, and other domains have become highly dependent on machine learning methods and tools. Mike Horia Teodorescu provides a survey of these methods and their...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
An engaged employee is a difference maker, yet the number of actively disengaged employees far exceeds the number of engaged ones, notes< James Heskett. What do you think is key to firing up the...
View ArticleThe Accounting Rookie Job Market: A Practitioner’s Guide
Aimed at accounting PhD students but potentially useful to other new academics and job seekers, Ethan Rouen's essay offers suggestions for the dissertation process and subsequent job search. The writer...
View ArticlePrivate Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis
Examining the activity of almost 500 PE-backed companies during the 2008 financial crisis, this study finds that during a time in which capital formation dropped dramatically, PE-backed companies...
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