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- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
the ability to achieve a goal, which in turn translates into higher rates of learning. We test the resulting model experimentally, using a mixed-method design that combines two laboratory experiments with a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
impact on design evolution. Specifically, we show that i) tightly-coupled components are "harder to kill," in that they have a greater likelihood of survival in subsequent versions of a design; ii) tightly-coupled components are "harder to...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement
Practices) manufacturing suite and a GLP (Good Laboratory Practices) laboratory. In parallel, the company established its own quality system to support products from this new facility. In March of 2022, Vaxess produced the first human...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
near the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago, she dreamed of being a physicist. Instead, she has focused her career on executing “pro climate business solutions.” As the COO of Fermata Energy since March 2022, Claire...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the organizational and procedural remedies NASA and the Jet...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
and what the School teaches, and to whom. How can HBS best complement and contribute to the work of the University’s world-renowned laboratories as well as to cutting-edge, science-based firms in Boston and beyond? Can the School itself...
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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier demand for government intervention. We argue that this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49214 Working Papers Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract— A firm's costs are typically tightly guarded secrets. However, across a field study...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
recursion, interaction, and subjective construal between the self concept and the social system. In two lab experiments and a field experiment in a global consulting firm, we tested the hypotheses by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
undeniable ethical failure, people experience ethical dissonance between their moral values and their behavioral misconduct. Our findings indicate that to reduce ethical dissonance, individuals use a double-distancing mechanism. Using an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research....
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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, managers should experiment with operational transparency—the deliberate design of windows into and out of the organization's operations...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
depleted of their self-regulatory resources are more likely to "impulsively cheat" than individuals whose self-regulatory resources are intact. We report results from four experiments that describe this relationship. Individuals...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
when it was followed by a negative consequence. In addition, they judged the behavior as more blameworthy and to be punished more harshly. Participants' ethical judgments mediated their judgments of both blame and punishment. The results of the second View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior industry experience shapes a set of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
Professor of Business Administration, and colleagues Dr. Eva Guinan and Jin Paik more about the study and results. They are referred to as the LISH team below. Martha Lagace: How did you learn about the problem and connect with like-minded medical colleagues? LISH...
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