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- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
article they describe how to properly design and execute A/B and other controlled tests, ensure their integrity, interpret results, and avoid pitfalls. They argue that if a company sets up the right infrastructure and software, it will be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
demonstrates that SFP always enables truth to speak to power safely, and in a majority of cases enables senior teams to transform silent barriers into strengths, realign their organization's design and strategic management process with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
Thomas and John J. Gabarro. The Action Plan was originally designed as part of a facilitated session but can also be used in conjunction with the book. The Action Plan guides individuals through an examination of the critical areas of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
unethical. In four experiments, participants wore purportedly fake or authentically branded sunglasses. Those wearing fake sunglasses cheated more across multiple tasks than did participants wearing authentic sunglasses, both when they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge creation and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
and efficiency), based on structural characteristics of the task and team. We also distinguish between a team's mean use of stored knowledge and the concentration of knowledge use in a team. Using objective data from several hundred... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
First, Study 1 shows that chronic matchmaking is associated with higher well-being. Studies 2 and 3 show that matching others on the basis of how well they will get along leads to a greater increase in happiness and is more intrinsically rewarding than other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the family-owned company grew over the decades, moving from wooden toys to plastic "bricks," the building blocks of its construction sets. The products are designed around play themes such... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9
a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper explores the conditions under which firms participate in this endeavor. Building on theories of how social activists inspire... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Abstract—Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
do exactly what they're told and disregard every other consideration. While a human would have understood that the sites' designers wanted to maximize quality as measured by clicks, the algorithms maximized clicks at the expense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of, among other things: product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and future industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry by use of a technique... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's business model three years ago, and the company was at a critical juncture. NOW offered a program—called NOWaccount—that provided working capital to small businesses by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of masculine-image concerns and to behave instead in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50668 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must develop a new variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne