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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Working PapersEconomic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Abstract This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
sensitive to the solicited person’s gender, with women responding more than men. These results shed light on the factors that drive employees’ engagement in organizational tasks, beyond regular duties, and provide insights on how to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (2010) Abstract This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
corporate) now needed to understand how and why they were doing so and to make sure that those edits were being made in a constructive manner. In a disagreement between human and machine, Belk allowed humans...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences. Creating Value through...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
other factor for the great influence it has enjoyed in American society—have changed significantly from the era when the earliest schools were founded up until the present day. Thus the institution that came to be the major influence on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
diversification and lower costs. So-called index funds became so popular that just before his death Bogle warned that their ubiquity could have a problematic effect on stock markets. Nevertheless, they were a primary factor leading to...
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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
Greek companies to simulate growth in the economy, another mechanism to do this could have been foreign direct investment (FDI). Again, the news was not good, with no positive trends shown. Only the Greek government is to blame for this fiasco. While many View Details
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by George Serafeim
- 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20
Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance Authors: Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Andy J. Yap Publication: Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Humans and other animals express power through open,...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806121 EMC Corp.: Proposed Acquisition of VMware 806-153 This case involves the decision by the CEO of EMC Corp. whether to acquire VMware, a small Californian software firm that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors in shaping firms' decisions to adopt specific organizational practices, above and beyond their technical efficiency. Similarly, institutional theory emphasizes legitimation processes and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries, U.S. Behavioral...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
a science standpoint. Manned missions are at least an order of magnitude more expensive than unmanned missions. The big problem is that we weigh too much—it's enormously expensive to help a human escape Earth's gravity. So we have to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
deployment to a challenging context is associated with human capital development. Managers initially deployed to more challenging contexts were not, however, more likely to break into the upper echelons of the organization. Publisher's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
your negotiation or decision. Unless someone has given you specific, credible information that time truly is of the essence, avoid succumbing to pressure tactics. Strategy 3: Partition the negotiation across multiple sessions. Human...
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by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
to post on the site any government data that does not have national security or privacy concerns. That's a lot of data. Anything that can be put online should be put online." Pros And Cons In class, participants who had read the case pointed to a wealth of...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to rethink which factors made the difference between constructive...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
Behavior and Human Decision Processes Abstract The present research investigated the dual role of cognition as either an enabler of moral reasoning or self-interested motivated reasoning for endorsing sweatshop labor. Experiment 1A showed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided matching markets. It shows...
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Martha Lagace