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- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
countries, wealthier individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs). As one would expect, the entry rates into entrepreneurship fell for those individuals who faced an increase in the cost of external finance. Digging down another... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
Monday morning. Eight managers, handpicked by their superiors, face one another in the middle of a room. Seated in a semicircle behind them is the company's top management team. As the members of the inner circle report what they have... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
contribute to what we call the psychology of price. You can take the very same physical price and break it up into parts, bundle it with other items, ask for payment early, or ask for payment late, and change consumers'' perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
(relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and morality. We apply principles derived from the literature on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
employee perceptions of employment security. In particular, we exploit exogenous state-level changes in unemployment insurance benefits and test for partial unwinding of prior upward earnings management when benefits increase. An increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
ignoring—advice from others. Across six studies, we find that advisors interpersonally penalize those who ignore their advice. This effect stems from both harsher perceptions of the advice seeker as well as a decrease in advisors’ sense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
Summing Up Who Will Save Us From Our Work Habits? We have a problem in the workplace. Some of it is being forced upon us by forces in society. Some of it is of our own making. But we face increasing challenges in managing our work time... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
she anticipated customer needs, many crews and companies requested she come back. “I felt that I changed some people’s perceptions of the fitness of a woman in such a demanding job and environment,” she says. Since those early engineering... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
project has surveyed HBS alumni and other business leaders to assess perceptions about which aspects of the country, such as the economy or education, they see as thriving and which as lacking. The survey results consistently showed that... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points in time and document falling sale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports.... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Perceptions about Member Expertise Authors:Heidi K. Gardner and Lisa Kwan Abstract Why do some teams fail to convert members' knowledge into valued outcomes? We propose that members' differing perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
decreases the compassion that individuals express to others in need, that this effect is mediated by dampened feelings of empathy and heightened perceptions of unprofessionalism, and that it is circumscribed to bad news that has economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
first, it has to undo the common perception that the product is an intimidating machine for guys. As part of its strategy, in July 2003, Sony introduced a PlayStation product in Europe called EyeToy: Play—a video camera (the EyeToy) and... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
improved management and decentralization; (2) larger firms, skill-intensive plants, and foreign multinationals appear better managed and are more decentralized; (3) firms that are both family owned and managed appear to have worse management and are more centralized;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
As waves of globalization wash across the business world, tremendous new opportunities for financing and investment present themselves to savvy enterprises. In a new casebook, HBS professor Mihir A. Desai discusses the numerous challenges and opportunities View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an oxymoron but show how the group... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
individual differences in social dominance orientation-a preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality-interacts with perceptions of socioeconomic threat to influence the use of hypodescent in categorizing half-Black, half-White... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
impression that a private equity firm is unstable. That perception creates a wariness to invest, which means a PE firm often struggles in its attempts to raise the next fund. So in essence, founding partners are damaging their own firms,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese