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Data Analysis, Communication, and Control
Welsch, Roy E. - 2021
The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …
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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India
Bertrand, Marianne - 2010
in India for quot;lower-castequot; groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759394
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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946489
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Following Through on Good Intentions : The Power of Planning Prompts
Milkman, Katherine L. - 2012
We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals' responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial appointments. At four companies, all employees due for a colonoscopy were randomly assigned to receive either a control mailing or a treatment mailing. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107727
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Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending
Levine, Ross - 2019
We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank … evaluate the impact of within bank communication costs on small business loans. Consistent with Stein's (2002) model of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869574
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Can Simple Informational Nudges Increase Employee Participation in a 401(K) Plan?
Clark, Robert L. - 2015
We report results from a field experiment in which a randomized subset of newly hired workers at a large financial institution received a flyer containing information about the employer's 401(k) plan and the value of contributions compounding over a career. Younger workers who received the flyer...
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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Sandvik, Jason; Saouma, Richard E.; Seegert, Nathan; … - 2022
What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism
Andreoni, James - 2010
communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between … recipients had been able to ask, even when they were silent. We conclude that communication dramatically influences altruistic …
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Trading, Communication and the Response of Price to New Information
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
The dynamic behavior of security prices is studied in a setting where two agents trade strategically and learn over time from market prices. The model introduces an information structure which is intended to capture the notion that information is difficult to interpret. Strategic interaction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139449
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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization
Bloom, Nicholas - 2012
Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and … "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment …' lower level agents. Conversely, technologies reducing communication costs substitute agent's knowledge for directions from …
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