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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Quarterly Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation....
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- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Alesina, one of the most influential political economists, and I explored these questions before he passed away in 2020. Our work was published recently in the Journal of Economic Literature. We found that anti-immigration arguments tend...
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by Marco Tabellini
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
multiple identities as a result. The outcomes of relational pluralism can include greater flexibility in building network ties, more stable exchange relationships, and the ability to adopt tailored innovations. We develop a typology of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
the book? How did your writing of the book unfold? Kanter: There were a couple of things that led to Men and Women of the Corporation. First of all, almost as soon as I began working in a faculty position in the late 1960s, I wanted to...
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by Robin J. Ely
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
professor Linda A. Hill. And leaders at the forefront of top companies in the future, she believes, already know that the key to competitive advantage is their own ability as leaders to nurture and harness the "collective genius," of people who View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
of damage caps on settlements, the propensity of men and women to initiate negotiations, and the readiness of each gender to volunteer for, and work on “nonpromotable tasks.” Linda won this award, however, not only for her path‐breaking...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20et%20al%202013.pdf 2006 American Economic Review A Note on Fairness and Redistribution By: Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra Abstract—In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)-henceforth, AA-argued that a preference...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.)...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
identical resumes. Using a novel control condition, we document that this discrimination is not specific to gender and is instead driven by beliefs. Employers are simply less willing to hire a worker from a group that performs worse on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the former and disapprove of action in the latter, despite identical consequences. The difference is often explained in terms of the intention principle—whether the consequences are intended or incidental. Our results suggest that when...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
the early years of the 20th century, as much as any business in America, is marked by dramatic changes in the context in which CEOs had the opportunity to forge their identity and the fortunes of their companies," the authors write...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provider—a comparatively costless and therefore puzzlingly rare decision that could supply redundancy and resilience in the event of an attack or service outage affecting one provider. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations (revised) Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations struggle to...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
emerging markets sample. Also, the more-levered large firms are more vulnerable to exchange rate shocks than smaller firms with comparable levels of leverage. While this result holds for the average country in our sample, there is substantial cross-country...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
items in your category—think drywall for example." For retailers looking for immediate advice, the book details three courses of action to help them. As the threats are not identical across all retail segments, step one is to assess their...
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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
fact that despite careful attention to the importance of neighborhood priority, Boston’s implementation of its 50-50 reserve–open seat split was nearly identical to the outcome of a counterfactual system without any reserves. Transparency...
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Carmen Nobel