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  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

such “conceptual consumption” is essential for understanding human consumption. We first review how four classes of conceptual consumption—consuming expectancies, goals, fluency, and regulatory fit—impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

Churchill and Judah Folkman-and telling the stories of how they came to power and how they made the most important decisions of their lives, Indispensable reveals how, when, and where a single individual in the right place at the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2013
  • News

The First Secret of Success Is Showing Up

  • June 2022 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Platinum Capital

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
How should a venture capital firm divide compensation and decision rights between its founders and its next-generation partners? Platinum Capital faced this decision in July 2020. Platinum’s younger partners had just requested a piece of the firm’s highly lucrative... View Details
Keywords: Decision Rights; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Compensation and Benefits; Governance; Retention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships
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  • 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

experiment and their interactions can make it difficult to determine cause-and-effect relationships. Choosing the right sample size is important. How can we ensure reliable results? Randomized field trials, "blind" tests, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

(Fourth Quarter 2008) Abstract As Harvard Business School celebrates its first century, it can take pride in being a pioneer in exploring what transpires in the boardroom and how it helped shape the evolution of enlightened governance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

Performance Frontier. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25586&i=25588&cs=266ba43f09b94a7a5f5f39a2ab0d9479 2006 Management Science Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23

the CFO of Haley-Midland, Inc., dispensed with pleasantries and started right in on her questions for Jim Sweeney, the senior vice president of human resources, and Nancy Walters, Haley-Midland's vice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

Thinking-Not Feeling-Jobs By: Waytz, Adam, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Technological innovations have produced robots capable of jobs that, until recently, only humans could perform. The present research explores the psychology of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2021
  • Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

and new offerings like the Geek Squad, the company’s stock tripled in 2013. The same human connection Joly cultivated at Best Buy can be found in the pages of his new book, The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S. triumphalism; but the true story is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance measures via deception. In a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

The first step is to understand how brands buy these services. What are they looking for? What do they need to learn? How do they go about assessing things like creativity, trust, and loyalty? This set of cases puts the students into the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

chief supply-chain management officer, chief human resources officer, and CEO. It offers a road map for ambitious managers who want to know which skills they should focus on developing in order to rise up the chain of command. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

"excessive" use of decision rights. Consistent with these implicit incentives, we find that employees in tightly monitored business units are less likely than their loosely monitored counterparts to 1) use decision rights and 2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

amplify pressures to improve. Examining organizational responses to a change in a prominent information disclosure program, we provide some of the first empirical evidence characterizing organizations' heterogeneous responses to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • August 25, 2022
  • Article

Find the Right Pace for Your AI Rollout

By: Rebecca Karp and Aticus Peterson
Implementing AI can introduce disruptive change and disfranchise staff and employees. When members are reluctant to adopt a new technology, they might hesitate to use it, push back against its deployment, or use it in limited capacity — which affects the benefits an... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Change Management
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