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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge There is a saying that every decision is political—not just in terms of ideology of left or right, but also in terms of...
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- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
Ceilings, Floors, and Imperfect Calibration Authors:F. Gino, Z. S. Sharek, and D. A. Moore Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research has claimed that people exaggerate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
right now in our research, but it appears that the distant ties are much more important than the clustering. Clustering has a negative influence, unless each cluster contains people with a variety of backgrounds. However, in addition to...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
yes.” Pasricha, who thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living, gave the 80 attendees a set of simple coping strategies to remain positive, find rest, and let go of the idea of rushing back to whatever life was before everything changed. “The corporate speak...
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Margie Kelley
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Castlight coworker about this issue, would I be as enraged? “Then that makes me realize, ‘Oh, I’m getting angry here because I’m talking to my husband right now, and I need to take that off and realize I’m actually just talking to my...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
poor execution. For example, the Checkout Channel repeated its broadcasts every ten minutes. That was just about the right length of time for consumers, who spend an average of eight minutes waiting in the checkout line. However, it...
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- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
as preordained or fixed. They understand that they cannot afford to get mired down in reacting to counterparts' moves; they must shape their situations. So they work to mold the basic structure of the negotiation by involving the right...
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by Michael Watkins
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
calculations—are powerful. Even though algorithms often outperform human judgment, people resist allowing a numerical formula to make decisions for them (Dawes, 1979). Nevertheless, people increasingly depend on algorithms to inform their...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
coup against President Allende in 1973, and who is noted equally for structural reforms and human rights abuses. The informational void is by no means unique to these two countries, and this is why Harvard...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
understandably, balk at taxing genetic information. I think it's very unlikely that any real-world tax code will ever tax personal traits to a large extent. Q: You argue that research should include a role for the principle of Equal Sacrifice. Why? A: Most people,...
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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies, corporate culture, and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
weekend meetings that would lead to promotions. And it struck me how feel-oriented and human some of these decisions that guided the future of such a massive business were. You know? And I wonder if you think that that approach, your...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
information is being used and being sold?" As we show in the case they’re being profiled right down to minutiae. They can pretty much identify who you are. Kenny: Let's go back to the beginning of the case. What was sort of the...
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
future do not show this want/should pattern, and we discuss a potential explanation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-078.pdf Conversational Blindness: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
the dimensions of human behavior, decision making, and judgments in carrying out the work of the modern corporation. A most fortuitous event in starting the project was the engagement of our research assistant who has a theater academic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
levels of interest—founders in the early stages, joiners seeking practice in the field, or those debating if the entrepreneurial path is right for them. Teams of three to four students are matched after acceptance into the program, and...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
in fortunes are vivid examples of the private sector's cycle of Schumpeterian creative destruction. In contrast, the list of the largest nonprofit organizations has remained stable over decades. Large nonprofits do not disappear and few new ones—Habitat for View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
336-339 Abstract Experimental economics and social psychology share an interest in a widening subset of topics, relying on similar lab-based methods to address similar questions about human behavior, yet dialogue between the two fields...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
three factors that predict neighborhood improvement. First, neighborhoods that are densely populated by college-educated adults are more likely to experience physical improvements—an observation that is compatible with the economic literature linking View Details
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Carmen Nobel