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Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning
By: Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats
It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. And, in fact, we find evidence that when given a choice between practicing a task and reflecting on their previously accumulated practice, most people opt for the former. We argue in this paper that this preference is...
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Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services
The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased... View Details
- February 4, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: Individuality Is an Illusion
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Individuality Is an Illusion." The Atlantic (February 4, 2021).
- April 1995
- Article
Perceptions of Fairness in Interpersonal and Individual Choice Situations
By: M. H. Bazerman, S. B. White and G. F. Loewenstein
Bazerman, M. H., S. B. White, and G. F. Loewenstein. "Perceptions of Fairness in Interpersonal and Individual Choice Situations." Current Directions in Psychological Science 4, no. 2 (April 1995): 39–43.
- 2006
- Chapter
How Institutional Norms and Individual Preferences Legitimate Organizational Names
By: Mary Ann Glynn and Christopher Marquis
Keywords:
Organizational Culture;
Personal Characteristics;
Perspective;
Attitudes;
Prejudice and Bias
Glynn, Mary Ann, and Christopher Marquis. "How Institutional Norms and Individual Preferences Legitimate Organizational Names." In Artifacts and Organizations, edited by Anat Rafaeli and Michael Pratt, 223–239. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
- August 2002
- Article
Toward an Individual Customer Profitability Model: A Segment-Based Approach
By: B. Libai, D. Narayandas and C. Humby
Libai, B., D. Narayandas, and C. Humby. "Toward an Individual Customer Profitability Model: A Segment-Based Approach." Journal of Service Research 5, no. 1 (August 2002): 69–76.
- December 2010
- Article
Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We study adaptation to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and compare the long-run...
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Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 76, no. 3 (December 2010): 834–852.
- 2021
- Article
Purpose Before Profit: Unleashing Individual and Collective 'Human Magic'
By: Hubert Joly
Joly, Hubert. "Purpose Before Profit: Unleashing Individual and Collective 'Human Magic'." Strategy & Leadership 49, no. 4 (2021): 3–8.
- 2012
- Journal Article
EWNI: Efficient Anonymization of Vulnerable Individuals in Social Networks
By: Frank Nagle, Lisa Singh and Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis
- 04 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation
- 2024
- Article
Neyman Meets Causal Machine Learning: Experimental Evaluation of Individualized Treatment Rules
By: Michael Lingzhi Li and Kosuke Imai
A century ago, Neyman showed how to evaluate the efficacy of treatment using a randomized experiment under a minimal set of assumptions. This classical repeated sampling framework serves as a basis of routine experimental analyses conducted by today’s scientists across...
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Li, Michael Lingzhi, and Kosuke Imai. "Neyman Meets Causal Machine Learning: Experimental Evaluation of Individualized Treatment Rules." Journal of Causal Inference 12, no. 1 (2024).
- 11 Sep 2019
- Podcast
How carefully managed career restarts can benefit individuals and employers
Life events, personal interests, and a host of other factors lead people to step away from work. The key is how to handle reentry. Carol Fishman Cohen, HBS ‘85, draws on her own experience to consult and write about what it means to come back from a career break in...
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- April 2019
- Article
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures
People often feel malicious envy, a destructive interpersonal emotion, when they compare themselves to successful peers. Across three online experiments and a field experiment of entrepreneurs, we identify an interpersonal strategy that can mitigate feelings of...
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Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall. "Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148, no. 4 (April 2019): 667–687.
- October 2000 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*TRADE (B)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Harmeling
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Conflict of Interests;
Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Values and Beliefs;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Gender;
Diversity;
Financial Services Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Susan Harmeling. "Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*TRADE (B)." Harvard Business School Case 301-058, October 2000. (Revised January 2002.)
- April 2006
- Article
The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery
By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
Huckman, Robert S., and Gary P. Pisano. "The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 52, no. 4 (April 2006): 473–488.
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery
By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
Huckman, Robert S., and Gary P. Pisano. "The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery." January 2005.
- 01 Dec 1981
- Conference Presentation
Social Indicators of the Changing Relationship of Individuals and Organizations
By: R. M. Kanter
- 03 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures
Keywords:
by Matthew Lee & Julie Battilana
Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the U.S.
We measure the overall influence of contextual versus individual factors (e.g., voting rules and media as opposed to race and education) on voter behavior, and explore underlying mechanisms. Using a US-wide voter-level panel, 2008–2018, we examine voters who...
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