Relational Identity - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices in physical stores where most retail transactions occur. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously collected from the websites and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss aversion, we propose a new type of policy bundling... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities-San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on the success rate of venture capital-backed investments in an area. Geography is also... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

capitalization of firms in their coverage portfolio. Our results hold after Regulation Fair Disclosure, suggesting that these relationships are not based on selective disclosure. Overall, the evidence shows both the importance and limitations of professional View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52673 Harvard Business School Case 517-050 Beingmate Founded in 2002, Hangzhou, China–based Beingmate was a major producer of infant formula and related products in the high-demand Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Organization Science Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intra-Firm Mobility and Access to Resources By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

identical resumes. Using a novel control condition, we document that this discrimination is not specific to gender and is instead driven by beliefs. Employers are simply less willing to hire a worker from a group that performs worse on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

the former and disapprove of action in the latter, despite identical consequences. The difference is often explained in terms of the intention principle—whether the consequences are intended or incidental. Our results suggest that when... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2009
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Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

the early years of the 20th century, as much as any business in America, is marked by dramatic changes in the context in which CEOs had the opportunity to forge their identity and the fortunes of their companies," the authors write... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

Identity—Team members must be active cultural learners and teachers to understand one another's identity and avoid misinterpreting behaviors. Technology—When choosing between videoconferencing, e-mail, and other modes of communication,... View Details

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

scale of the relationship relative to location-specific and other effects. We find cluster presence to be significantly related to higher wages, with the effect being moderate but meaningful. This suggests that cluster presence enhances... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces (Experiment 3). These experiments suggest that mind perception is a dynamic process in which relevant contextual information such as social identity and out-group threat change the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

business-unit managers choose local measures that influence, but are not necessarily identical to the corporate scorecard measures. The most remarkable transformations and partnerships occur in support functions and shared services, such... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

these attitudes using a survey of Syrian refugees in Turkey conducted in 2016 by asking two questions: (i) Does the framing of wartime experience as “suffering” verses “sacrifice” shift attitudes about acceptable conflict outcomes? (ii) How does the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

Stereotype Content Model Authors:P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy, and S.T. Fiske Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

issues relating to fostering innovation. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Kerr_Kerr_Lincoln_WP14_IPEFirms.pdf Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—This paper... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Cavallo, Alberto, W. Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

David, and Stefan Spinler Abstract—Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details