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- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
positively as it should have, Yu observes. While noting other issues may have contributed as well, "The answer the CFO provided had no substance, and the language itself was almost impossible to understand. If the answer is formed in such a way that the capital... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
of influence. With this in mind, the paper seeks to achieve five objectives: (1) Define the domain of psychological influence as consisting of those tactics which do not require the influencer to change the economic or structural aspects of the bargaining situation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
of knowledge, but in practice that doesn't happen much at all. Some scientists, however, are pushing back and many say they need to rethink how they conduct science. Q: What are the risks of opening problems to outsiders? A: For firms, the first View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
markets—and how market design made things better. Thickness:A classic example of a thickness problem is the process of helping nephrology patients in need of kidney transplants. In 2006, some 5,000 patients in the United States either... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. Inspection accuracy is critical to inspections being a useful input to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Galinsky Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
Boston. Elberse is remaining mum on celebrities planning to attend the next session in order to protect their privacy. Participants sign up to learn strategies for launching creative products, managing talent, coping with advances in... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
in order to capture value in the by-product market ("full+ conversion"), or only convert part of its waste into by-product so as not to flood the by-product market ("partial conversion"). As waste is now a useful input... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
worldwide for exquisite design of consumer electronics products, strives to better integrate software design into its traditional physical product design processes to meet the demands of a post-iPod world. Details the Bang & Olufsen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
behavioral self-control (i.e., prosocial decision-making; Experiments 4 and 5). Furthermore, Experiments 3a, 3b, 4, and 5 provided evidence for the psychological process underlying the effectiveness of rituals: heightened feelings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
lines in order to illuminate the ways that U.S. states take advantage of federal ambiguity and are able to shape corporate practices to their benefit. We specifically examine how patterns of bank acquisitions are shaped by the crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. I focused on understanding the processes by which CEOs were selected—in particular the phenomenon of outsider CEO succession. In the conclusion I wrote a bit about the role of... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the fields we have worked in, this is the field where the notion that quality is free is the most powerful. One of the central themes of our book is that the way to drive down costs in healthcare is to drive up quality. That is the dynamic we have to harness. And in... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
realm of politics and history, the disconnect between what students have to learn in order to graduate, and what they know to be true, grows greater every day. This is why, in 2012, when students in Hong Kong were faced with the prospect... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with only a modest net impact on employment. The creative destruction response mainly involves a more rapid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne