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- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why? Because they're stymied by the rigid "silos" they're organized around. In Reorganize for Resilience, Ranjay Gulati reveals how resilient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
descriptive study of these processes in an emerging category-modern Indian art. Discourse analysis revealed how market actors shaped the construction of meaning in the new category by reinterpreting historical constructs in ways that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
of the modern neo-liberal regime. No PDF is available for download at this time. Social Categories and Minimizing Joint Gains: An Ethical Dilemma? Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract People prefer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
behavior on an ongoing basis. Communication is a central part of that story. Negotiators can have good reasons for not saying everything they're thinking. Holding back information can be a simple matter of self-defense. If a seller View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
FRC. Although successful broadcaster opposition may be taken as confirming evidence for this interpretation, our review of the record reveals even stronger disconfirming evidence. In particular, we find that every major interest group,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot? In The Architecture of Innovation, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner-one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
competition, customers are better off "letting a thousand flowers bloom," fostering fierce competition which results in a de facto standard if users prefer compatibility over individual fit, or a split market, if fit is more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens significantly, suggesting increased entry by small firms. However, the dominance and growth of large incumbents remains unchallenged. Quantile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation in legislator... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
prepare? A: We do not believe there are better or worse people to perform these tasks. And much like the debate about which is harder, a layoff or a firing, we found that some people preferred to have a personal relationship with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
reported feeling, to such an extent that receivers viewed regifting as similar in offensiveness to throwing gifts away (whereas givers clearly preferred the former). This asymmetry in emotional reactions to regifting was driven by an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and comprehensive book, two of today’s most insightful economists reveal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant information) and lying by commission (the active use of false statements). Our... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7
Reserve's Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business, and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
deeming it unearned. They also reported a heightened sense of belonging, optimism about career advancement, and access to expanded networks. Yet among those who interacted regularly with Japanese counterparts, narratives also revealed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
flash of creative insight, an Aha! moment in the mind of a genius. People apparently prefer to believe in the rugged individualism of discovery, perhaps because they rarely get to see the sausage-making process behind every breakthrough... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
individual's behavior across different situations and over time (in the language of rational choice, character can be thought of as a stable system of preferences that informs the tradeoffs and choices an individual is likely to make in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
exist when couples are present. This article's main result is that a stable matching exists when there are relatively few couples and preference lists are sufficiently short relative to market size. We also discuss incentives in markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace