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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
may increase the rate of individual learning from customer-specific experience for a focal task. Finally, we find that the level of experience with a customer for the entire outsourcing firm also yields learning and that the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
Recreational marijuana is legal in 18 states. Scant attention has been paid, however, to the profound impact that federal legalization would have on the cannabis market. Essentially, it would squeeze out the illicit cannabis market, along... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities of acquired companies, became one of its principal... View Details
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
"waterfall" method in which each step of the process is completed in turn by a separate worker. By sharing mistakes across the process, the customer and project team members benefit individually and collectively from increased... View Details
- 2010
- Casebook
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture
By: Laura Alfaro
All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010.
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
at it. Thanks to the work of researchers like Sucher and Gupta, we are learning how to build the trust necessary to engage those employees. This work suggests that trust can be engineered, at least at the organizational level. If that’s the case, it raises a question... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
show the next time he sold and defended the project. By contrast, the leader of the Fusion team, whom we call James, was ineffective on many counts. He micromanaged the work by narrowly defining assignments, constantly inquiring about View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether shifting focus onto time can salvage individuals' ethicality. We found that implicitly activating the construct of time, rather than money,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
espouse their point of view. Lobbying for that through a coalition such as the Council for Institutional Investors (CII) can help. We are a nation of laws. And we can have individual freedoms because we enforce our laws. If we reduce the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
religion—an increasing number of people are abandoning their faith. As commitment wanes, religious involvement may become detrimental to well-being, and individuals may be better off seeking new affiliations. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
interviewed more than 100 people as we prepared to write the book. We’ve learned so much from every one of them, and we’re using some of their stories in the book to help our readers connect the findings from research in social sciences to the experiences of these... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
back to McClelland's original work, and eventually thinking more deeply about the "high-need-for-achievement professional" and how helpless these individuals behaved when trying to change dysfunctional behavior. DeLong, a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
You can also follow individual minority creators over time and see ups and downs in their rates of success,” Kerr says. Certain groups feel it more The heaviest impact was felt by groups that found... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove many of these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
strategy, it's essential to regularly reevaluate individual and team goals to ensure that each still maps to those of the company. — "How will it satisfy stakeholders?" How important is it to your boss, your team, and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
increasing diversity and inclusion, encouraging everyone to bring their individuality and unvarnished opinions with them is a good start. Gino, who studies innovative leadership and wrote a 2018 book on successful rulebreakers, Rebel... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall Abstract—People often feel malicious envy, a destructive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman