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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
Frida Polli (MBA 2012) came to HBS as a neuroscientist in search of a business problem to solve, and she found it during the recruitment season. All of these companies and job-seekers searching for hints of a good fit in handshakes and CVs—it seemed so, well,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
SOMNCs extends the SOE literature, and the non-business internationalization argument, which helps explain how the SOE dimension of SOMNCs extends the MNC literature. Second, we analyze how the study of SOMNCs can help develop new insights of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
is why. Why is this country so driven by the attainment of wealth? If you go to other countries, there are people who work very hard, who have a nice standard of living, but they're not so focused on one thing. Q: What you're talking about raises complicated issues. Do... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
and operations theory suggests that the longer people wait, the less satisfied they become; we demonstrate that due to what we term the labor illusion, when websites engage in operational transparency by signaling that they are exerting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional affiliations have different effects on whether male and female faculty become "academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
results have implications for existing theories of financial constraints for entrepreneurs, as well as research looking at the effect of banking competition on the efficient allocation of capital. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
how and why diversifiable risk should be priced in VC deals even though investors are fully diversified. We then take our theory to a unique data set and show that while investors do earn zero alpha on average there is a strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May – June 2011
- Article
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness
By: Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Can groups become effective simply by assembling high status individual performers? Though an affirmative answer may seem straightforward on the surface, this answer becomes more complicated when group members benefit from collaborating on interdependent tasks.... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Equity; Theory; Human Resources; Integration; Body of Literature; Performance Effectiveness; Status and Position; Experience and Expertise
Groysberg, Boris, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness." Organization Science 22, no. 3 (May–June 2011): 722–737.
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
and then develop theories that will help predict behavior in the future. I don’t know that I had a clear hypothesis about this research question at the start. You hear so much said about how much people don’t like open offices, but... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
traditional endogenous growth theory and to new theoretical approaches that focus on variability in innovation outcomes within the firm size distribution. Using new data on 11,514 U.S. R&D firms active during the interwar and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
focus on professional identity—the BE component—we turned to the literature on adolescent and adult identity development. Our work was grounded in the constructive-developmental theory of Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan (The Evolving... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Policy - Business & Environment
documents showed sophisticated understanding of the relationship between increasing CO2 concentrations and increasing temperatures. 1990s In an attempt to prevent regulation, the fossil fuel industry initiated marketing campaigns in the 1990s to, in their words ,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
a syllabus and course outline, and using established educational theory in practical situations. Mom Hacks: 100+ Science-Backed Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Body, Raise Awesome Kids, and Be Unstoppable by Darria Long Gillespie Da Capo... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, interest is growing... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
company’s strategy, or you have a rival who could block your path to the C-suite. Listen Now! The Disruptive Voice Explores the theories of disruptive innovation with academics, researchers, and practitioners who have been inspired and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
that use approaches like game theory will be able to better predict an attack and determine what we can do to avoid them in the first place. But A.I. will only be as good as the people who develop it. Is bulletproof security achievable in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
California, leading scholars in economics, psychology, statistics, and decision theory grapple with strategic uncertainty and the question of how to make wise choices. The 23 papers in this collection—which include those of HBS authors... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others
By: Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Game Theory; Personal Characteristics
Di Tella, Rafael, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16645, December 2010.
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
multi-level model to explain how expertise dissensus affects team processes and outcomes. We further advance theory by investigating the effects of expertise dissensus on all dimensions of team effectiveness: team performance, team... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel