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- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
high-reliability organizations give rise to a distinctive way of thinking—workers direct attention at failure (rather than success) and are concerned with reliability (rather than efficiency)—leading to better outcomes. The concept of...
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- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
the predictions of the neoclassical model; and (3) public debt flows are negatively correlated with growth only if government debt is financed by another sovereign and not by private lenders. Our results show that the failure to consider...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
The Italian lira? The British pound? The French franc? Or all three? The result could determine the success or failure of the project for a single European currency. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709026-PDF-ENG
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
"dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? Two experiments demonstrated conversational blindness—listeners' surprising failure to notice such dodges—and explored the interpersonal...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
story of creative destruction, the most pronounced impact was a massive increase in churning among new entrants. We argue that creative destruction requires many business failures along with the few great successes. The successes are very...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
their behavior eroded gradually, over time, rather than in one abrupt shift. We refer to this phenomenon as the slippery slope effect. Our studies also demonstrate that at least part of this effect can be attributed to implicit biases that result in a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 3 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of...
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Martha Lagace