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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
discussed the question with Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), who had just launched Whitespace, a venture lab and startup incubator. The women then recruited fellow first-year MBAs Mike Chang (MBA 2014), Jessica Beck (MBA 2015), and Okalo Ikhena... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Abstract Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in financial instrument fair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
the BEI will host a conference for alumni in May 2023 and is exploring creating “learners’ networks” with alumni to share the teachings of the faculty and deepen relationships with alumni to develop a feedback loop. Such relationships help advance faculty members’... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
black-and-white research lab in charge of creating a stable black-and-white print, which would prove to be years in the making. Nonetheless, the periodical U.S. Camera attested to the artistic potential of the new film: "The Land camera... View Details
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Millions of people are dying around the world because they cannot access diagnostic tools to manage their health. DFA aims to solve this problem with an elegantly simple solution that puts the power of a diagnostic lab at a patient’s... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the impact of the Yale University... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
incentives for them to work on a solution. And when I was thinking systematically about where else I could look, I discovered a company, InnoCentive.com, that took problems in R&D labs and broadcast them to outsiders. So the study was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
testing an easy-to-implement method to discourage dishonesty: signing at the beginning rather than at the end of a self-report, as is the current common practice. Using both field and lab experiments, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
systems—remains a long-run goal that most systems are still working to achieve, Huckman believes electronic records can still help reduce expensive redundant care. "If a physician can go into an electronic record and find out if her patient has already had a View Details
- Profile
Arthur Rock
recalled. “Of that, I was absolutely sure.” One of Rock’s sternest tests came in the late 1970s with his introduction to Apple. It was hardly an intuitive coupling for Rock but he knew Mike Markkula who had been Intel’s marketing vice... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
we theorize and then test that under conditions of increased workload, individuals may choose to complete easier tasks in order to manage their workload. We label this behavior Task Completion Bias (TCB). Using two years of data from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
research had not, it's not our idea, it is Emerson's original idea. Q: I thought that the methodology that you used was interesting. We wondered why you chose a job interview negotiation to test the hypotheses. A: We have found in lots of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a "lab tax." Allowing a treatment group to express non-binding preferences over tax spending priorities leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
over time. Two lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases due to differences in perceptions of expertise drive the effect. Our research contributes not only to operations research, but also to the practice of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Personalities Teixeira discovered the keys to attraction and retention through a series of lab experiments where participants viewed real ads that Teixeira selected from YouTube, while a camera recorded their facial reactions. They had... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
through the cracks.” Fixing By Walking Around The program the researchers tested was modeled on Allan Frankel's "Leadership WalkRounds," which has been shown to improve safety in various medical facilities. His hypothesis was that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
important initiatives. BULLETIN: There have been a number of obvious manifestations of progress on the technology initiative, including the shift to an Internet-based communications system at the School, the availability of full-motion video in electronic cases, and... View Details