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- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
advantage, decision making by those firms and their individual managers seems to rise above national influences and toward a commonality shared by other top firms in the international arena. In their study of the software industry in India, HBS professors Tarun Khanna... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
find turnover increases for the most productive workers. We detect limited effort responses and find no evidence of different effects based on workers’ expectations of fairness or future promotion. The findings suggest that adjustment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
of detection and enforcement. We study different enforcement methods using a novel dataset generated from two experiments run by a stock-photography agency. We find that a substantial reduction in the requested amount generates a small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
candidate much benefit of a doubt. “They might just think if you look uninhibited, you’re an idiot, and they don’t want to hire an idiot.” She adds that future research might look at ways to avoid sharing content that you later stand to regret, akin to the Drunk Text... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Screening: Who can come in? Many organizations are conducting body temperature tests before allowing workers, vendors, or customers into a space. Some go even further, preparing for biometric screening via rapid testing for active infection to View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
if predictions have to be made, he wants them made by people with "skin in the game." In the future, will predictions improve as we develop new methods to sort out the noise from the signal? Or will the growth of Big Data outpace the development of methods to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
by high levels of ambition and values or leadership behaviors at companies." Johnny added, "Neuromanagement will be based on electronic testing however it will not detect 'will-power.' It is our will that determines how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
sample of 82 ads for 30 brands in their homes or workplaces. The research relied on webcams that track visible changes on a person's face as they watch an ad, responding to funny, or amusing content. The software detects the slightest... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
to the point where analysts can “fingerprint” particular authors by the probability of how they use connecting words like “the,” “and,” and “that.” More recently, machine learning has moved into the realm of detecting emotion by examining... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
assistance early boosts the chances patients will actually receive the care they need to detect and treat conditions, such as diabetes. Past research also shows large increases in health care use and reduced rates of depression when... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
the lives of characters who solve puzzles and evolve over time across books, I’m reading the newest offerings from several favorite novelists and returning to every book in their series that I can find. The late Sue Grafton created Kinsey Mullone, a private View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
create software that could assist doctors in making diagnoses. By July 2018, Zebra had developed seven algorithms to analyze scans for emphysema, liver density, compression fractures, bone density, brain bleeds, breast cancer, and a calcium score used to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
unobtrusively measured their eye movements. The researchers parsed the camera data with the help of computer vision software that evaluated emotional response based on variations in facial features. Click to watch. Meanwhile, the eye tracker View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
empirical researchers have struggled to detect such influence. The impact of high-level choices may appear weak, we theorize, because the choices are embedded in coupled search processes. A coupled search process exists in an organization... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
effects were amplified by 100% and the daily schedule effects were fully mitigated (that is, reduced by 100%), the increase in inspectors’ detection rates would result in their citing an average of 9.9% more violations. Understanding... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
initiatives more closely to specific objectives: preventing misconduct, detecting it, or aligning policies with laws and regulations. Then, using careful model design and some creativity, firms can develop better metrics to measure what’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
begin to detect a pattern. Serious poker players strive to disguise their tells with sunglasses or use eye drops so that their pupils don't dilate as they take in a spectacular hand, but it's not easy to control the emotions that bubble... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
the error structure. However, traditional tests to detect serial correlation have weak power and can be misleading, resulting in misuse of moment conditions and incorrect inference. We present an appropriate set of moment conditions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
to it." But common sense provided enough information to detect definite patterns. As the paper states, "Inventors with the last names Gupta or Desai are more likely to be Indian than they are to be Anglo-Saxon or Vietnamese." "You can... View Details