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New Research @
Boston University School of Management
Spring 2005
Focus On:
When Less is More: Reduced-Load Work, Career Advancement, & Life Balance An interview with Douglas T. Hall , Professor of Organizational Behavior; Faculty Director, Executive Development Roundtable
An interview with Douglas T. Hall , Professor of Organizational Behavior
Q: Your work looks at high-powered professionals who have chosen to work on a reduced load basis, following them over a significant time span. A: Yes, I’m now involved in the latter part of a study entitled “Crafting Lives that Work: A Six-Year Retrospective in the Careers & Lives of Professionals & Managers,” funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The goal has been to learn about the long-term experiences of professionals and managers who are working on, or have worked on, a reduced-load basis; and to explore how flexibility can benefit both high-level employees and their organizations.
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Quick Takes
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An Economic Answer for Spam
By Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor of Information Systems
Imagine an e-mail filter that takes no time to learn your preferences, never makes misidentifies spam, and is costless to use. Introducing a spam solution that can give you more value than even such a “perfect” filter... Read more
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U.S. Textile & Apparel Industries in a Post-Quota World
By David Weil, Associate Professor of Finance & Economics; with Fred Abernathy
Will the end of the global quota system leave the textile and apparel industries dangling by a thread? No, say these authors, and here's why the industries will continue to hang tough. Download article (pdf) Related news:
Prof. David Weil writes for the Washington Post about , the US Congress, and why the Americas' textile industries won't die when quotas do
The National Press Club invites Prof. David Weil to speak at their "Newsmaker" News Conference on "The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries in a Post-Quota World" (12/16/04)
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Books
Operations & Technology Management
William Kahn: Holding Fast: The Struggle to Create Resilient Caregiving Organizations , Brunner-Routledge, 2004
Janelle Heineke with M. Davis: Operations Management: Integrating Manufacturing and Services, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2004
Strategy & Policy
Anita McGahan, co-edited with J. Baum: Business Strategy Over the Industry Life Cycle, Elsevier, 2004
Articles/Chapters
Finance & Economics
Iain Cockburn: "State Street Meets the Human Genome Project: Intellectual Property and Bioinformatics," in Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries: Biotechnology and Software, ed. R. Hahn, Brookings Press, 2005
Iain Cockburn: "The Changing Structure of the Pharmaceutical Industry," Health Affairs 23 (1), 2004: 10-22
Information Systems
N. Venkatraman with H. Tanriverdi: "Reflecting Knowledge in Strategy Research: Conceptual Issues and Methodological Challenges," in Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, eds D. Ketchen Jr. & D. Bergh, Elsevier, 2004
N. Venkatraman with H. Tanriverdi: "Knowledge Relatedness and the Performance of Multi-Business Firms," Strategic Management Journal 26 (2), 2005: 97-119
Marshall Van Alstyne with N. Bulkley: "Why Information Should Influence Productivity," in The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, ed M. Castells, Edward Elgar, 2004
Paul Carlile: "Interpreting and negotiating knowledge across domains through artifacts," in Artifacts and Organizations, eds A. Rafaeli and M. Pratt, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 2004
Paul Carlile with L. Black & N. Repenning: "A Dynamic Theory of Expertise and Occupational Boundaries in New Technology Implementation: Building on Barley’s Study of CT-Scanning," Administrative Science Quarterly 49 (4), 2004
Marketing
Scott Swain and Frederic Brunel: "The Role of Product Form in Products’ Evoked Sets, Recognition, and Evaluation," Proceedings of the American Marketing Association, Winter 2005
Patrick Kaufmann with C. Brooks and D. Lichtenstein: "Travel Configuration on Trip Chain Store Choice," Journal of Consumer Research 31 (2), 2004: 241-248
Sucharita Chandran with V. Morwitz: “Effects of Participative Pricing on Consumers’ Cognitions and Actions: A Goal Theoretic Perspective," Journal of Consumer Research, 2004
Paul Berger with A. Gerstenfeld & A. Zeng: "How Many Suppliers Are Best: A Decision-Analysis Approach," OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science , 2004: 9-15
Operations & Technology Management
Sean Willems with S. Graves: "Supply Chain Design: Safety Stock Placement and Supply Chain Configuration," in Supply Chain Management: Design, Coordination and Operation, eds A. de Kok & S. Graves, North-Holland Publishing Company, 2004
Sean Willems with C. Billington, G. Callioni, B. Crane, J. D. Ruark, J. Unruh Rapp, & T. White: "Accelerating the Profitability of Hewlett-Packard’s Supply Chains," Interfaces 34 (1), 2004: 59-72
Strategy & Policy
Anita McGahan: "How Industries Change," Harvard Business Review , October 2004: 98-106
Candida Brush with Dr. P. Greene: "Women Entrepreneurs: An Explanatory Framework of Capital Types," in Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship, eds J.S. Butler and G. Kozmetsky, Praeger, 2004
Candida Brush with Dr. M. Hoehn-Weiss & Dr. R. Baron:
"Putting your Best Food Forward? Assessments of Entrepreneurial Social Competence from Two Perspectives," Journal of Private Equity 7 (4), 2004: 17-26
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