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New Research @
Boston University School of Management
Summer 2005
Focus On:
The Connected Home Project: Building the Home of the Future
An interview with John Henderson, Richard C. Shipley Professor of IS
Q: What is the background of the Connected Home Project? A: The Connected Home Project is an initiative, through the research center BU Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy (BUILDE), to study the home of the future. We’re running the project in partnership with the US military. The idea comes from thinking about organizations and people as an interconnection of networks, rather than single entities that transact at the border or edge. The question is, in a world that is highly connected, where will the center of gravity be, the locus for processes and services, such as those related to healthcare, education, business? Historically, the center of gravity has been institutions. Education happened in the school, healthcare, the hospital; business, the office. Of course OnStar is a vision that suggests today’s new center of gravity is the automobile. But we think it’s the home.
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Quick Takes
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Why do Institutional Plan Sponsors Fire Their Investment Managers?
By Jeffrey Heisler, Christopher R. Knittel, John J. Neumann, and Scott Stewart
How sophisticated are institutional investors in selecting fund managers? Not as sophisticated as they could be, these authors point out: Investors focus on the consistency of benchmark-relative performance, but don’t adjust for extremeness of style. Read more
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Mentoring and Developmental Networks in the New Career Context
By Dawn Chandler and Kathy Kram
How can we build more powerful networks? By changing the way we think about mentoring: from a single, long-term, hierarchical relationship to multiple, shorter-term relationships that comprise a developmental network. Download article (pdf)
Select New Faculty Publications
Books
Strategy & Policy
Sushil Vachani (editor): Transformations in Global Governance: Implications for Multinationals and other Stakeholders, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 (forthcoming)
Articles/Chapters
Accounting
Feng Gu : "Innovation, Future Earnings, and Market Efficiency," Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Fall 2005
Finance & Economics
David Weil with M. H. Smith: “Ratcheting Up: Evolution of Linked Technologies in a Supply Chain,” Industrial Relations, 43 (3), July 2005
Yrjo Koskinen with A.Bris and M. Nilsson: "The Real Effects of the Euro: Evidence from Corporate Investments," Review of Finance, 2005
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
Zvi Bodie : "Straight Talk About Government Pension Insurance," Milken Institute Review 7 (1), 2005: 38-45
Information Systems
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 E. Brynjolfsson: "Electronic Communities: Global Village or Cyberbalkans?," Management Science, 2005
Fernando Suarez: "Network Effects Revisited: The Role of Strong Ties on Technology Selection," Academy of Management Journal , May 2005
Lihui Lin with X.Geng & A. B. Whinston: "A Sender-Receiver Framework for Knowledge Transfer," MIS Quarterly, 2005 (forthcoming)
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
Organizational Behavior
Jennifer Howard-Grenville : Explaining Shades of Green: Why Do Companies Act Differently on Similar Environmental Issues?," Law and Social Inquiry, Fall 2005
Strategy & Policy
Sushil Vachani: "Problems of Foreign Subsidiaries of SMEs Compared with Large Companies," International Business Review, 14 (4), August 2005 (forthcoming)
Working Papers
Marketing
Frederic Brunel with A. Alon: "Rediscovering Consumer Word-of-Mouth: An Ethnomethodological Analysis of Word-of-Mouth Rhetorical Methods in an Online Community" Contact author for copy
Teaching Cases
Strategy & Policy
Tomas Kohn with N.L. Nelson: "Note on Writing Executive Summaries"
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