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Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
Published:October 19, 2011Author:Garry Emmons On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are...
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Getting the Marketing Mix Right
Published:October 20, 2011Author:Dina Gerdeman Businesses rely on solid marketing strategies to boost sales—yet the tools used to evaluate these strategies often provide misleading results, leaving...
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Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information
Published:October 21, 2011Paper Released:September 2011Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus, and George Serafeim Executive Summary: During the past two decades, there have been many ideas for...
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The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
Published:October 24, 2011Author:Michael Blanding In recent years, consumer review sites including Yelp, Citysearch, and TripAdvisor have become the first stop for recommendations on everything from...
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Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
Published:October 25, 2011Author:Carmen Nobel In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight...
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Fixing CEO bonus plans CEO bonus compensation usually begins and ends around some form of equity scheme, which can motivate executives to manipulate results in any given quarter. "Annual bonus plans...
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Horrible Boss Workarounds
Published:October 27, 2011Author:Carmen Nobel On film, few characters are more obviously villainous than the extremely bad boss. There's Star Wars' Darth Vader (who manages a disrespectful underling...
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Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney...
Published:October 28, 2011Paper Released:October 2011Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Executive Summary: For many people who suffer end-stage renal disease, a kidney...
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The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Published:October 31, 2011Author:Carmen Nobel Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one...
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India's lower caste entrepreneurs While India's lower castes have won greater political representation, they have not realized as much entrepreneurial success, according to preliminary data published...
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The Ultimate Question in Management
Published:November 3, 2011Author:James Heskett The publication this month of The Ultimate Question 2.0 (revised from an earlier edition) provides us with an opportunity to ask ourselves just what is...
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Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses
Published:November 3, 2011Paper Released:September 2011Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz Executive Summary: Every device connected to the Internet—from PCs to tablets, printers to cash...
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Multi-Sided Platforms
Published:November 4, 2011Paper Released:October 2011Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright Executive Summary: Research in multi-sided platforms (MSPs) studies how payment networks bring together...
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The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
Published:November 7, 2011Author:Sean Silverthorne A British merchant's long-forgotten seventeenth-century book may not only fuel a radical rethinking about how modern economies developed in Europe...
View ArticleThe Ties that Bind: Railroad Gauge Standards, Collusion, and Internal Trade...
Daniel P. Gross studies the conversion of 13,000 miles of railroad track to standard gauge in the southern United States in 1886 as a large-scale natural experiment in technology standards adoption...
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Harvard Business School professors weigh in on how Donald Trump’s nearly 50 years of experience in building a global corporate empire (and zero years of political experience) might shape his approach...
View ArticleOvercoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
Why are some firms able to persistently survive challenging, uncertain, and underdeveloped business environments? Research by Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna.
View ArticleDisruptive Innovation: Intellectual History and Future Paths
While the concept of disruptive innovation is widely used in practice, empirical management research has not kept pace. Clayton M. Christensen, Rory McDonald, Elizabeth J. Altman, and Jonathan Palmer...
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Do public companies compromise their future with too many shareholder payouts? ... The growth of Chinese philanthropy ... Measuring the true costs and value of health care.
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