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  • January 2023
  • Article

The Dark Side of Machiavellian Rhetoric: Signaling in Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance

By: Goran Calic, Rene Arseneault and Maryam Ghasemaghaei
In this study, we explore the impact of Machiavellian rhetoric on fundraising within the increasingly important context of online crowdfunding. The “all-or-nothing” funding model used by the world’s largest crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, may be an attractive... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding; Communication Strategy; Entrepreneurial Finance; Behavior
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Calic, Goran, Rene Arseneault, and Maryam Ghasemaghaei. "The Dark Side of Machiavellian Rhetoric: Signaling in Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance." Journal of Business Ethics 182, no. 3 (January 2023): 875–896.

    Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

    In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team’s motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details

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    Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle

    By: George Westerman, F. Warren McFarlan and Marco Iansiti
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Innovation and Invention
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    Westerman, George, F. Warren McFarlan, and Marco Iansiti. "Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle." Organization Science 17, no. 2 (March–April 2006): 230–238.
    • 04 Jun 2008
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    Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing?

    Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short
    • 1986
    • Book

    The Effectiveness of The Annual Report as a Communication Vehicle

    By: David Hawkins and Barbara A. Hawkins
    Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Reports; Communication
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    Hawkins, David, and Barbara A. Hawkins. The Effectiveness of The Annual Report as a Communication Vehicle. NJ: Financial Executives Research Foundation, 1986.
    • October 2021
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    And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Calder-Wang
    With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Diversity; Gender; Performance Improvement; Capital Markets
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    Gompers, Paul A., and Sophie Calder-Wang. "And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital." Journal of Financial Economics 142, no. 1 (October 2021): 1–22.
    • July 2010
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    Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentives Effects in the Church

    By: Christopher Parsons, J. Hartzell and D. Yermack
    We study the compensation and productivity of more than 2,000 Methodist ministers in a 43‐year panel data set. The church appears to use pay‐for‐performance incentives for its clergy, as their compensation follows a sharing rule by which pastors receive approximately... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Organizations; Religion; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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    Parsons, Christopher, J. Hartzell, and D. Yermack. "Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentives Effects in the Church." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 3 (July 2010): 509–538.
    • Spring 2016
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    Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design

    By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael E. Menietti
    Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy
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    Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti. "Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design." RAND Journal of Economics 47, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 140–165.
    • 03 Nov 2016
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    Seven Catalysts To Creating Progress and Becoming A More Effective Leader with Dr. Teresa Amabile

    • 22 Aug 2016
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    The Making of An Internship: An Effective Onboarding Process

    Join HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) as we follow three students throughout their summer internships, and learn best practices for creating a successful summer program. An effective onboarding process can have many... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
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    Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

    By: Laura Huang and Jone L. Pearce
    Using an inductive theory-development study, a field experiment, and a longitudinal field test, we examine early-stage entrepreneurial investment decision making under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Building on existing literature on decision making and risk in... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Making; Emotions; Performance Effectiveness
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    Huang, Laura, and Jone L. Pearce. "Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions." Administrative Science Quarterly 60, no. 4 (December 2015): 634–670.
    • February 1985
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    Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers

    By: T. M. Amabile
    72 members of the college community who identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing participated in individual laboratory sessions, in which they were asked to write 2 brief poems, to investigate the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive... View Details
    Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Personal Characteristics; Situation or Environment
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    Amabile, T. M. "Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 48, no. 2 (February 1985): 393–399.
    • 2017
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    Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

    By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom
    The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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    MacCormack, Alan, and Robert Lagerstrom. "Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2017). (doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2017.297, ISSN 2151-6561.)
    • 14 Apr 2014
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    Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

    Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer
    • 21 Aug 2017
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

    streams that track performance feedback and organizational culture; and analyses of digital trace data to map and shape organizational networks. “As managers and employees work through these challenges and tradeoffs, the potential gains... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance

    By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
    In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Groups and Teams; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Experience and Expertise; Change; Diversity; Information Technology Industry; India
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    Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 310–328.
    • 2019
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    The Customer May Not Always Be Right: Customer Compatibility and Service Performance

    By: Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
    This paper investigates the impact of customer compatibility – the degree of fit between the needs of customers and the capabilities of the operations serving them – on customer experiences and firm performance. We use a variance decomposition analysis to quantify the... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Compatibility; Satisfaction; Profitability; Customer Relationship Management; Service Operations; Customer Satisfaction; Banking Industry; Retail Industry
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    Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei. "The Customer May Not Always Be Right: Customer Compatibility and Service Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-091, February 2016. (Revised December 2019.)
    • May – June 2011
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    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
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    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.
    • September–October 2013
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    Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services

    By: Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
    The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased outsourcing.... View Details
    Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Customer Satisfaction; Health Industry
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    Clark, Jonathan R., Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services." Organization Science 24, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 1539–1557.
    • 2009
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    Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance

    By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
    In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes, by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences... View Details
    Keywords: Familiarity; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Projects; Experience and Expertise; Diversity; India
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    Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-145, June 2009. (Revised August 2009, November 2009, April 2010, August 2010; revise and resubmit, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.)
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