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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
economics and her passion for gender, and my interest in working on closing gender gaps." The Experiment The trio's research included a two-stage experiment conducted at the Harvard Decision Science...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
interdisciplinary, with economists and business historians joining together to confront theory with empirical evidence. Publisher's Link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415532716/ Working PapersNo Margin, No Mission? A Field View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract—A firm's costs are typically tightly guarded secrets. However, across six laboratory experiments and a field study we identify when...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics...
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- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407062 Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman Harvard Business School Case 407-060 At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 fashion...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
deliberate learning efforts using both a cognitive (task understanding) and an emotional (self-efficacy) mechanism. We study the proposed framework by means of a mixed-method approach that combines the reach and relevance of a field View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
various disciplines. Recent work has begun to focus on a previously overlooked factor predicting dishonest behavior: the beneficiary or victim of dishonest acts. In two laboratory experiments, we manipulate the level of resources...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games (http://sites.google.com/site/extformpredcomp/): one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The competitions are based on an estimation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
Laboratories had been dismantled, and only remnants of Philips's once great electronics laboratories at Eindhoven remained. Of the three primary builders of the technological foundations of the consumer...
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- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
laboratory to study coach-team matching effects. Clear-cut measures of team performance and precise employment records are publicly available, and the set of teams vying for coaches’ services is comparatively small. Controlling for coach...
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- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated merchants: price discrimination and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
and complementary online studies provide a clear answer: yes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53860 forthcoming Management Science Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in short, a technology for reliably creating leaders). Our research program involves not only discovering the technology, but also creating a course that would be available to others to use,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
this wealth-based discriminatory behavior using a laboratory study. Our experiment shows that individuals are more willing to illegally help peers when those peers drive standard rather than luxury cars and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
recursion, interaction, and subjective construal between the self concept and the social system. In two lab experiments and a field experiment in a global consulting firm, we tested the hypotheses by...
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Sean Silverthorne