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- 2017
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Refugees Misdirected: How Information, Misinformation and Rumors Shape Refugees’ Access to Fundamental Rights
By: Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli and Katerina Linos
The global refugee regime represents one of the few generous commitments governments offer to outsiders. Indeed, few persons fleeing armed conflict actually claim international protection upon first arriving in Europe, even though the benefits of legal protection are...
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Carlson, Melissa, Laura Jakli, and Katerina Linos. "Refugees Misdirected: How Information, Misinformation and Rumors Shape Refugees’ Access to Fundamental Rights." Virginia Journal of International Law 57, no. 3 (2017): 539–574.
Eugene F. Soltes
Eugene Soltes is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where his work focuses on corporate integrity and risk management. His research utilizes data analytics to identify organizational cultures and compliance systems that can effectively... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
particularly in the vaccine space, had begun to attract the attention of much larger pharmaceutical companies. While there was much appeal to working with these companies, these relationships could also challenge Crucell's independence. This issue is highlighted by the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2017
- News
Why Finance Needs More Humanity, and Why Humanity Needs Finance
Should Your Company Sell on Amazon? Reach Comes at a Price—Harvard Business Review
Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers.
In this article, the authors present a... View Details
In this article, the authors present a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams. This new program from established authors Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
conclusions about the universality of gender stereotype content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49830 in press Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Should You Sleep on It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep...
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- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
decades about how and why people make the moral decisions they do. In this review, we explain how intuition, affect, physiology, and identity support and inform more deliberative reasoning process in the construction and enactment of...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Managers’ Heuristics Affect R&D Performance Volatility? A Simulation Informed by the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Research Summary
Managing in an Information Age
Lynda M. Applegate's research focuses on the influence of information technology on markets and organizations. Her findings on the evolution of electronic commerce and on the role of information technology as an enabler of flexible and adaptive ...
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- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
that wrong," says Lineback, himself a former executive. "They think authority defines them. I've had bosses who had to resort to saying, 'I'm the boss!' And when you get to that point, you've lost it." In the following...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 2010
- Working Paper
Employee Selection as a Control System
By: Dennis Campbell
Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study...
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Accounting;
Decision Making;
Governance Controls;
Employees;
Selection and Staffing;
Management Systems;
Financial Services Industry
Campbell, Dennis. "Employee Selection as a Control System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-021, August 2010. (Revised September 2010, April 2012.)
- 25 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?
- 24 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items
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by Edward J. Riedl & Suraj Srinivasan
- TeachingInterests
Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning
As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to aid decision makers in high-stakes settings such as healthcare and criminal justice, it is important to ensure that the decision makers correctly understand and consequent trust the functionality of these... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
outlines concrete steps that managers at all levels can take to spark positive conflict and make sure that all views get a fair hearing, and he outlines as well a fair and open process for making more effective decisions. "Keeping conflict constructive helps to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization
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by Maria Guadalupe & Julie M. Wulf
- 2009
- Working Paper
Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?
By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten
In a sample of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more powerful countries being...
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Financial Reporting;
International Accounting;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Network Effects;
Standards;
Adoption
Ramanna, Karthik, and Ewa Sletten. "Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-102, March 2009.