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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Globalization and state formation constitute one another. In the process of engaging these issues, historians of American capitalism have reimagined both the spatial divisions common to Americanists and the temporal frame of American...
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Manufacturing
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Competing on a Common Platform
Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development...
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- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
Reading: Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Financial Services...
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by Michael Blanding
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of...
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
minimize temporal distance—that is, largely on a North-South axis,” the paper says. Read the paper: The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time. Jasmina...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
stringency and diligent recollection of moral rules. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf The Ethical Mirage: A Temporal Explanation as to Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are (revised) Authors:Ann E....
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
the socially constructed nature of helping behavior. That is, the parties must establish and maintain a helping frame for their interaction, especially when help-givers are high-status external leaders. Second, the model specifies that the rhythms of deep help—the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
2017, well before the COVID-19 pandemic increased remote work. “Two individuals have the same job and are doing the exact same kind of work. The only thing that changed is the temporal distance.” First, the team explored how being in...
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by Michael Blanding
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
socially constructed nature of helping behavior. That is, the parties must establish and maintain a helping frame for their interaction, especially when help-givers are high-status external leaders. Second, the model specifies that the rhythms of deep help—the duration...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-006.pdf Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation Authors:Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Kristina A. Diekmann, Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007
microstructure level; and third, evolution is a temporal phenomenon, in that the conditions at time t affect the nature of the design at time t+1, hence exploring this phenomenon requires longitudinal data. In this paper, we tackle these...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
oft-discussed issue of temporal shortsightedness—the very human tendency to focus on present-day concerns without considering how our actions will affect the future. But there's also ideological myopia—a failure to realize that...
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- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
are consistent with the hypothesis that firms controlled by large shareholders with excess control rights choose public debt financing over bank debt as a way of avoiding scrutiny and insulating themselves from bank monitoring. Multivoxel Patterns in Face-sensitive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 24
cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita GDP, income inequality, and other factors. Countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption. We suggest that this surprising association may be accounted...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
We Are: A Temporal Explanation Authors:A.E. Tenbrunsel, K.A. Diekmann, K.A. Wade-Benzoni, and M.H. Bazerman Publication:In Research in Organizational Behavior, edited by B. M. Staw and Arthur P. Brief, in press Abstract This paper...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
Consistent with Temporal Construal Theory, we find that future-implemented choices are construed at a higher level than immediately-implemented choice, and that this construal difference mediates the increased support for the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
increased their communication if teammates were also actively participating. Additionally, team performance is uniquely driven by the level of emergent interdependence, as indexed by the diversity of topics discussed and the temporal...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008
larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and robbery, as opposed to other kinds of crime like arson, assault, homicide, and rape. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are focused at the beginning of...
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Martha Lagace