by KC Diwas, Bradley R. Staats - Publications - Faculty & Research

this tendency to shut off the new and basically transfer the corporate culture over to the new employee," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Daniel M. Cable of London Business School and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

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Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning

By: Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats

It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. And, in fact, we find evidence that when given a choice between practicing a task and reflecting on their previously accumulated practice, most people opt for the former. We argue in this paper that this preference is... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Practice; Experience and Expertise

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2015
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Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating

By: Bradley R. Staats, Diwas S. KC and Francesca Gino

Traditional models of operations management involve dynamic decision-making assuming optimal (Bayesian) updating. However, behavioral theory suggests that individuals exhibit bias in their beliefs and decisions. We conduct both a field study and two laboratory studies... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Egocentric Bias; Experience; Healthcare Operations; Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Operations; Decision Making; Health Care and Treatment

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19 Apr 2016
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First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Business School and Bradley R. Staats (HBS MBA '02, DBA '09) of the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. "It was interesting for us to think about... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Apr 2008
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does not, by itself, create a performance drag. Radically Simple IT Authors:David M. Upton and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2009
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Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton Abstract While the concepts of lean production are frequently applied in service organizations, there is little work that rigorously has... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Aug 2010
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(conditional) gender gap is largest among faculty members at the highest status institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-014.pdf Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Learning from My Success and From Others’ Failure: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

Driven by Social Comparisons: How Feedback about Coworkers’ Effort Influences Individual Productivity

Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating

The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Financial Services

Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: Individual and Organizational Effects

Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience

Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance:Evidence from Indian Software Services

Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance

The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams

Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity

‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure

Preparing the Self for Team Entry: How Relational Affirmation Improves Team Performance

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning

Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience, Negative News and Belief Updating

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

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