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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
finite-horizon stochastic dynamic program to study when the value of concealment is positive or negative. We show that when consumers are myopic, the value of concealment is always positive. In contrast, we show that when consumers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
can evolve mutual caring commitments. These others will, in all likelihood, be in their immediate work area. When these one-to-one bonded relationships form a cluster, the participants will begin to see themselves as a group, their bonded View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
author of Dynamic Leader, Adaptive Organization: Ten Essential Traits for Managers. These are cross-group relationships that are strategically mapped to include stakeholders with direct relationships to managers' areas of influence. Such... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
more likely to involve collaboration across locations, particularly with inventors from the firm's primary R&D site. Our results suggest that R&D dynamics in clusters are heavily influenced by multi-location firms with innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
says. "They'd be walking down the hall jostling, pushing, laughing. This is a group that has worked together a long time—unusual in a country where experienced management talent is at a premium ." It turns out that unusual... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
the other, creating a dynamic in which their interactions with members who focus on the other identity create challenges and dominate their program experience, to the detriment of a focus on the organization and its goals. This suggests... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
Sales can soar when companies bundle products together into one cheaper package—Happy Meal, anyone? Yet a buyer's affinity for such deals comes with a big caveat, according to new research: These groupings are often successful only if the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
threats. The second largest contingent of women supporting Trump was white women with college degrees. Forty-five percent of them voted for him. While some were likely attracted to Trump’s fiscally conservative policies, research suggests an even more pervasive gender... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
together. Mastering the design and management of teams will become an even more critical focus—or more accurately, mastering what I have called teaming—working in flexible groups with shifting membership, often from different locations,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
established. Auburn, Michigan, Ohio State, and other schools from the Power Five conferences were deemed more established. Less established schools hailed from less prestigious conferences with a shorter track record in intercollegiate athletics. Victories gave both... View Details
- Research Summary
Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Research Summary
The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Connectivity
While investigating how workplace transparency and privacy shape organizational behavior and performance, I wondered about the related effects of workplace connectivity. As new digital tools and organizational forms make it far easier for employees to communicate... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
numbers are low, members of underrepresented groups carry extra burdens, as her earlier work on tokenism has shown. As a Latina woman leading a tech company, Tuchman felt she had to explain herself and Caribu’s potential for dramatic... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- Research Summary
Overview
I have spent my career studying novel talent management practices and their effect on collaboration and performance. My core research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to... View Details
Keywords: Privacy; Transparency; Productivity; Field Experiments; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; North America; Europe; Asia; China; Japan; Latin America
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications Authors:Evan P. Apfelbaum, Michael I. Norton, and Samuel R. Sommers Publication:Current Directions in Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the pervasive endorsement of racial colorblindness-the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
followership dynamics are really one and the same. Those who lead in one instance may follow in another." As C. J. Cullinane put it, "... to be a great leader you first have to be at some time in your career a great... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
Imagine a future in which a smart marketing machine can predict the needs and habits of individual consumers and the dynamics of competitors across industries and markets. This device would collect data to answer strategic questions,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz