Observation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

social events such as movies and bingo nights, providing additional opportunities to observe their patients and identify who has suddenly stopped showing up for activities, an early indication that something seriously wrong might be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

23 May 2016
Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

also make the settlement request conform more closely to standard invoices, providing a smoother path for processing payment, instead of initiating an internal legal review. She says it is interesting to observe the contrast between the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

look at portfolios because that’s a natural way to measure risk, and then we needed an area where we could actually observe some scandals and misconduct happening,” Minor says. “Hmm, where could that be? Politicians! It turns out they... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

increases a viewer's interest in watching an ad. After a certain amount, however, that persuasiveness starts to decrease and advertisers lose the link to the brand and the power to influence buying. In other words, too much entertainment can actually reduce viewers'... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

generally not thwarted diffuse public interests in reducing emissions. Rather, it is differences in the broad public perception of need that explain most of the variance in emissions reduction we observe across countries. The point of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

07 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

expert in this area. Our Mindful Leadership seminar focused on the practice of meditation as one of those ways, with a variety of meditation techniques taught by Rinpoche. This was strictly a secular teaching, not a Buddhist one. In my experience I have View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

Although many companies aspire to promote easy interaction and coordination across departments, office locations, and pay scales, the "boundaryless" organization—like the paperless office—hasn't materialized. The corporate silo is alive and well. This View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

06 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS

colleagues—one from India and the other from Switzerland. Right now I’m finishing up a case with Professor Anita Elberse, one of the youngest women to receive tenure at HBS. She also happens to be in charge of the first year of the MBA program. The other huge change... View Details

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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

who work full time and whose spouses or partners also work full time. The observed data from our 2018 survey, Life & Leadership After HBS: Personal and Professional Paths, have been weighted to represent the alumni profiled in this... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

Disease Control and Prevention, declared racism a serious public health threat. Shell is a coalition builder and a longtime observer of “where human capital is invested and where it isn’t.” He grew up in New Bedford, one of a number of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

with these questions in a virtual case-method style discussion on October 22. The 160 attendees had the option to be observers only, or participate in the live video class and be prepared to be called upon to engage in the conversation.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of hours interviewing and View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

your career choices. Be who you are everywhere. Finally, establish a female network and maintain it in spite of distance and demands on your time. When constructing this group, ensure that at least one member has the gusto to disagree with you. Why? As Jonah Lehrer... View Details

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

Abstract—A central prediction of information economics is that market forces can lead businesses to voluntarily provide information about the quality of their products, yet little voluntary disclosure is observed in the field. In this... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

Approach Authors:Jordan I. Siegel, Amir N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. Using historically motivated... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

a successful transformation in your company. Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines Author:Nava Ashraf Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Using an experimental design I elicit causal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

increases with organizational size, smaller adopters have such disproportionate influence because they allow observers better to infer that adoption will be profitable for their own organization. We elaborate the theory by predicting that... View Details