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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
procurement and internal sourcing for the same input requires a consideration of complementarities across and constraints within modes of procurement. We create analytical foundations for making empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
improved forecast accuracy, the value of their research about the spun-off subsidiaries is more limited. For both diversified firms and their spun-off subsidiaries, analysts' research is more valuable when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
waiting in line at the airport. Later, he decided to conduct a field experiment to explore the question. He and a team of experimenters equipped with small bills approached 500 people in lines and offered a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
inaccurate and increasingly troublesome. Management is a set of well-known processes that help organizations produce reliable, efficient, and predictable results. Really good... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
he had to refine that prediction downward to every eighteen months or so, his words received celebrity status and came to be called Moore's Law. Drawing on Moore's Law, technological innovation View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
nearly all corporations ceased offering defined benefit plans in favor of "defined contribution" packages such as 401(k) plans—in which employees contribute a set amount from their paychecks that would be individually invested for their retirement. “More... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
need to and can develop "adaptive foresight" to be positioned to predict the future by exploiting changes in the business environment and anticipating customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
August 2008) Abstract Choosing duty over pleasure today can cause regret down the road—whereas regret over the reverse is fleeting. Marketers of luxury products and services should consider prompting customers to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk—a forecast of limited future funding—by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
hypothesis that intermediation reduces punishment runs counter to predictions coming from a model in which solely unfair actions are punished. Experiments are also presented that show a phenomenon about the attribution of responsibility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
Many people feel pulled between work and home, have to accomplish work with constrained resources, and are facing high job demands—three factors that predict lower engagement... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
experiment, individuals with a strong moral identity were less likely to act in self-interest, yet individuals with a weak moral identity were more likely to act in self-interest, when subjectively experiencing power. Finally, we predict... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
labor force attachment than accepted applicants. These findings are consistent with the theoretical prediction that disability insurance may encourage individuals to save more in the present and plan to... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
constrained resources, and are facing high job demands—three factors that predict lower engagement and greater burnout. Low-cost, light touch interventions can improve... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
differences in their forecasts of future events (such as the profitability of a business being sold), attitudes toward risk and time, tax and regulatory status, market View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
independent company on the Australian stock exchange, and diversified its leadership team, which had been primarily male before she joined. “For a couple of years, it felt like we were building everything from scratch,” says Weckert, who... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Undercover Alum Faces the Music in HBS Show
trial. Enter Whit Sellblower, a Baker Scholar graduate of HBS, who goes undercover and returns to the School to pass as a student once again. Predictable — and unpredictable —... View Details