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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Leadership and Change. She is also a Visiting Scholar with the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative, researching the influence of African American business leaders at HBS and beyond. Laura is a faculty affiliate of the Center for...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
She decides to sleep on it. Come morning, Foalea is charged with leading a team of peers to turn one of these kernels of an idea into a business—in one day. This is Startup Lockdown, a small student-created, student-driven program that...
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- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
narratives and frames that influence the perception of green building; and future directions for the theory and practice of sustainable construction. The essays offer uniquely multidisciplinary insights into the transformative potential...
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Anna Secino
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
had two critical consequences. First, it has endangered democracy by giving the wealthy few enormous influence over who is elected to positions of power and what they decide. Second, it has further endangered democracies by fomenting...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Dharmapala Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on entrepreneurial self-organization, self-management, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
deeds well as compared to performing bad deeds poorly. Moreover, the results illuminate how the characteristics of an unethical behavior can interact to influence the emulation and diffusion of that behavior. Publisher's link:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
called Say that allows retail investors, for instance, to ask questions at quarterly earnings meetings (something that was historically reserved for the analysts). And now some of our peers are also embracing this opportunity to give...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
comparison to its peer institutions, the World Bank has been relatively responsive to calls for greater accountability. This report examines accountability mechanisms at three basic levels in the institution: (1) project, (2) policy, and...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
competitiveness fundamentals to productivity and prosperity outcomes. On these indicators Sweden is compared to a peer group of other advanced EU and OECD countries. The Scorecard finds Sweden's competitiveness to be solid overall,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when their relative value is higher. Indeed, financial rewards are effective at motivating the poorest agents, and non-financial rewards are more effective...
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Carmen Nobel
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
School of Business at Duke University. She is also an Affiliate of the Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity. Professor Rosette studies diversity and negotiations in organizational settings. In her primary area of research, she explores social and contextual...
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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
seats (e.g., freshman senators) and find a strong impact of seat location networks on voting. Further, we show that connections between firms and politicians influence congressional votes on bills that affect these firms. These network...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
right industry and time to start new ventures. Entrepreneurs with demonstrated market timing skill are also more likely to outperform industry peers in their subsequent ventures. This is consistent with the view that if suppliers and...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that user responses and attitudes towards TOC are influenced not only by the technical features of the system and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
is capital intensive and when it is difficult for headquarters to identify the value-maximizing investment strategy for the business unit. In evaluating the performance of profit centers, rate-of-return measures like ROA are likely to be effective when unit managers do...
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Martha Lagace