Scholars have long been interested in tracking "knowledge spillovers," the way technical and intellectual advances spread among communities of researchers and innovators. And a significant body of work has shown that distance ...
Social Sciences
Jul 5, 2013
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Many consumers who shop online prefer to return items to brick-and-mortar stores rather than mail them back. In a new study, researchers assessed a new practice called return partnership, in which online retailers partner ...
Economics & Business
Apr 12, 2024
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Friends out for a drink have hatched many a bright idea, but these insights (or what feel like insights at the time) don't usually end up published in academic journals. For researchers Jackie Silverman and Alixandra Barasch, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2024
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Many online platforms (e.g., Huffpost, Wikipedia) host user-generated content (UGC) and content developed by professional reporters.
Economics & Business
Dec 12, 2023
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Nearly a decade ago, Fei Gao predicted in his research that having online shoppers pick up their purchases at a local store could help retailers head off the so-called "retail apocalypse"—the notion that online shopping ...
Economics & Business
Nov 2, 2023
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In today's online world, third parties collect and store your browsing data at staggering rates. Third parties benefit greatly from this information, but do you get fair returns for sharing your data online?
Economics & Business
Sep 27, 2023
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Love and encouragement from others can make us feel our best. But can it also help us perform our best? By taking advantage of a unique situation in the world of football, economist Patricio Dalton and colleagues were able ...
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2023
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A recent collaborative study conducted by accounting and finance scholars highlights the pivotal role played by the M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) market in assessing the worth of technological assets.
Economics & Business
Sep 5, 2023
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What if you could measure effort and not just performance? What if you could determine if one person's effort in a workplace improved everyone's effort? What if you could determine if team efforts improved individual effort? ...
Social Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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New research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ESMT Berlin uncovers the factors influencing the job choices of talented STEM Ph.D.s, showing how and why startups can hire high ability scientists and ...
Social Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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