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- Multimedia (723)
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- 27 Nov 2018
- News
This misunderstood trait could transform make you a better boss
- 11 Jan 2017
- News
Research: Cracking a Joke at Work Can Make You Seem More Competent
- 18 Apr 2016
- News
Women Who Don't Negotiate Could Be Making a Smart Choice
- Article
Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others Across Demographic Differences
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid
In demographically diverse organizations, employees charged with socializing others—
socialization agents—must navigate a deep tension between the organization’s needs to
integrate individuals into a collective and individuals’ needs for recognition of their
unique...
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Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid. "Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others Across Demographic Differences." Academy of Management Journal 63, no. 2 (April 2020): 356–385.
- October 2002
- Article
Differences of Opinion and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
By: Karl B. Diether, Christopher J. Malloy and Anna Scherbina
We provide evidence that stocks with higher dispersion in analysts' earnings forecasts earn lower future returns than otherwise similar stocks. This effect is most pronounced in small stocks, and stocks that have performed poorly over the past year. Interpreting...
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Diether, Karl B., Christopher J. Malloy, and Anna Scherbina. "Differences of Opinion and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns." Journal of Finance 57, no. 5 (October 2002): 2113–2141.
- Working Paper
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships...
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Gompers, Paul A., William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. "How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22587, September 2016.
- April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Backchannelmedia: Making Television 'Clickable'
By: Sunil Gupta, Kavita Shukla and Zachary Scott Clayton
Backchannelmedia (BCM), a three-year-old start-up, intended to completely disrupt the world of advertising by transforming the way Americans watched television. BCM had developed a technology to make television "clickable," enabling viewers to interact with the content...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Marketing Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Competition
Gupta, Sunil, Kavita Shukla, and Zachary Scott Clayton. "Backchannelmedia: Making Television 'Clickable'." Harvard Business School Case 509-026, April 2009. (Revised August 2009.)
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
How to End a Conversation Without Making Up an Excuse
- November 10, 2020
- Article
Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems
By: Mjåset Christer, Umar Ikram, Navraj S. Nagra and Thomas W. Feeley
Health care systems across the world have increasingly embraced a value-based health care (VBHC) agenda. They do so for different reasons, using different foundations, and variations on the tools and tactics to effect their strategic goals. The role of governments,...
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Keywords:
Value-based Health Care;
Comparative Analysis;
Health Care and Treatment;
Value;
Global Range;
Performance Improvement
Christer, Mjåset, Umar Ikram, Navraj S. Nagra, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems." NEJM Catalyst (November 10, 2020).
- 2015
- Working Paper
Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences across Organizations
By: Jennifer Brown and Dylan Minor
We examine misconduct in financial services. We propose a theory in which experts extract surplus based on the value of their firm's brand and their own skills. Using sales complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded...
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Brown, Jennifer, and Dylan Minor. "Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences across Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-022, August 2015.
- December 2012
- Course Overview Note
Making a Success of your EC Independent Project: Good Practices for Students
By: Ian W. Mackenzie
Independent project (IP) work in the EC poses challenges over and above those encountered in the project components of RC FIELD. Based on the belief that the success of IPs can be greatly influenced by how well students select and scope their projects and then go about...
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- 20 Apr 2017
- News
The Weirdness of Juggling Many Different Roles at Work
- July 2005
- Case
Harvard Business School and the Making of a New Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana, Tarun Khanna and Daniel Penrice
Since its founding in 1908, Harvard Business School's mission has been to perform a much-needed service for American society by turning business management into a profession. One of the most important factors in the founding of HBS and the nation's other new business...
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Khurana, Rakesh, Tarun Khanna, and Daniel Penrice. "Harvard Business School and the Making of a New Profession." Harvard Business School Case 406-025, July 2005.
- December 2012
- Article
Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty
By: Max Bazerman and Francesca Gino
Early research and teaching on ethics focused on either a moral development perspective or philosophical approaches, and used a normative approach by focusing on the question of how people should act when resolving ethical dilemmas. In this paper, we briefly describe...
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Keywords:
Ethical Decision Making;
Corruption;
Unethical Behavior;
Behavioral Decision Research;
Behavior;
Ethics
Bazerman, Max, and Francesca Gino. "Behavioral Ethics: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Moral Judgment and Dishonesty." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 8 (December 2012): 85–104.
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
The Nobel Prize and the Making of a Heritage Brand
- May 18, 2012
- Article
Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss
By: David I Levine, Michael W. Toffel and Matthew S. Johnson
Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at little cost to employers and employees. We...
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Keywords:
Regulation;
Occupational Safety;
Evaluation;
Regression;
Matching;
Difference In Differences;
Safety;
Health;
Working Conditions;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competitive Advantage;
Performance;
Manufacturing Industry;
California
Levine, David I., Michael W. Toffel, and Matthew S. Johnson. "Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss." Science 336, no. 6083 (May 18, 2012): 907–911. (Online supplement (appendix). Featured in an article by the head of US OSHA, and in U.S. News & World Report and many other news outlets. Basis of U.S. Congressional testimony on promoting safe workplaces.)
- October 2019
- Article
Making Sense of Recommendations
By: Michael Yeomans, Anuj Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jon Kleinberg
Computer algorithms are increasingly being used to predict people's preferences and make recommendations. Although people frequently encounter these algorithms because they are cheap to scale, we do not know how they compare to human judgment. Here, we compare computer...
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Keywords:
Recommender Systems;
Artificial Intelligence;
Interpretability;
Information Technology;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Decision Making;
Attitudes
Yeomans, Michael, Anuj Shah, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Jon Kleinberg. "Making Sense of Recommendations." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 32, no. 4 (October 2019): 403–414.
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
professional networking conjures unctuous thoughts of pressing the flesh with potential employers, laughing at unfunny jokes, and pretending to enjoy ourselves. No wonder a recent study found that professional networking View Details
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by Carmen Nobel