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- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
you in to think about the concept of privacy," she says. "We argue that oftentimes, privacy isn't something that's at the forefront of people's minds until you cue it." To... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 26 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others
- 15 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Legislating Stock Prices
- May – June 2011
- Article
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness
By: Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Can groups become effective simply by assembling high status individual performers? Though an affirmative answer may seem straightforward on the surface, this answer becomes more complicated when group members benefit from collaborating on interdependent tasks.... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Equity; Theory; Human Resources; Integration; Body of Literature; Performance Effectiveness; Status and Position; Experience and Expertise
Groysberg, Boris, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness." Organization Science 22, no. 3 (May–June 2011): 722–737.
- 18 Oct 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Racial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives?
- 10 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations
- 2019
- Working Paper
Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation
By: Robert Scherf and Matthew C. Weinzierl
The normative principle of benefit-based taxation has exerted substantial influence on many areas of public finance, but it has been largely set aside in the modern theoretical approach to optimal income taxation, where welfarist objectives dominate. A prerequisite for... View Details
Scherf, Robert, and Matthew C. Weinzierl. "Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-070, January 2019. (Revised August 2019.)
- 07 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning, and Wage Dispersion
Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg
- 2021
- Working Paper
Renewing Knightian Uncertainty: A Pragmatic Prospectus and Demonstration
By: Amar Bhidé
Frank Knight distinguished between 'uncertainty' and 'risk' to specify the true nature of 'profit’, but his specification never caught on and I do not see realistic possibilities for renewing research in this direction. Using uncertainty to analyze the organization and... View Details
Bhidé, Amar. "Renewing Knightian Uncertainty: A Pragmatic Prospectus and Demonstration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-129, June 2021.
- 01 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
No Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The... View Details
- June 2002 (Revised November 2004)
- Compilation
John Maynard Keynes: His Life, Times, and Writings
By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
Discusses the life, times, and writings of John Maynard Keynes. Consists of three parts. First, it summarizes Keynes' life by reproducing his 1946 obituary from The Times of London. Second, it recalls the dramatic economic events of the times in which he lived by... View Details
Pill, Huw, and Ingrid Vogel. "John Maynard Keynes: His Life, Times, and Writings." Harvard Business School Compilation 702-092, June 2002. (Revised November 2004.)
- 23 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
economic theory with field experiments. "Field experiments give you scientific rigor while being close to practice," says. "Unless you really have a bulletproof argument that you can't poke holes in, it's hard to change prior beliefs."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
thrust toward an end past which we cannot see with any of our senses." The fact that logic is timeless—untensed—is not a coincidence: It is the tenselessness of logical explanations that makes them... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 03 Mar 2017
- Working Paper Summaries