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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
designers must think about how to distribute property rights, people, and activities across numerous self-governing enterprises in ways that are advantageous for the group (ecosystem) as well as for the designer's own firm or community.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
methods and to make decisions on quantitative analysis. This book offers a variety of practical tools and examples to improve a manager's understanding of business analytics, and to enhance their thinking and decision processes.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
tellers. Among the findings related to nonstrategic cues: On average, liars used more swear words than did truth tellers—especially in cases where the recipients voiced suspicion about the true amount of the endowment. "We think this... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Blog
The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education
Program Participants: We asked our Guest Services team some of the most common questions participants ask them; their answers are below. If you have any questions while you're on campus, just ask! What is the Chao Center used for? This is our favorite question! We like... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
century. The reality, it turns out, is a bit different when it comes to IT wages, according to new research. In all but the largest cities, wage growth in IT jobs has become relatively moderate following the dot-com boom, coming to... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits beyond businesses. As the thinking goes, middle class workers... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that people View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
repairs, replaces, and improves their property. Ensuring their data has sufficient unique IP in its granularity is key! The team needs to think about what would prevent adjacent competitors like Angi and Thumbtack from using their... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
transformation. Over the preceding two years, Davis and Gorowitz had grown Swagbucks from a relatively small venture staffed by people from Gorowitz’s personal and professional networks into a professionally managed and rapidly scaling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
financial variables. They use a diagnostic expectations version of a dispersed information learning model to explain why individual forecasters typically overreact to news, while consensus forecasts underreact relative to full-information... View Details
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
Ukrainian citizens are experiencing. "For Europeans, there will be huge price effects for both oil and natural gas." But on the business side, the effects are felt enormously by Russian citizens and relatively modestly by the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Good ethical practices don’t just happen; everyone within a corporation has to continuously work on them. “People are not always comfortable talking about ethics,” Nelson says. “Some have been dismissing ethics as, ‘I don’t have to think... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
now for whom music has always been a free commodity. The more that we talk to college students and teenagers about why they buy vinyl, the common thread is that having vinyl in your dorm room or your house says something about you and who you are. I View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
relative performance incentives in addition to piece rates to encourage competition in the workplace. We find that social identity has a significant impact on competition: a weaver only competes against coworkers with a different social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
culture, setting off a K-Drama (Korean television drama) and K-Pop (Korean pop music) craze, with music exports, for example, expanding ninefold to $277 million in 2013. Think virally and socially. When New York City sought to bring back... View Details