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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
companies tend to look out for the welfare of their employees in such an effective fashion. The impact of this at the national level can be seen from the Japanese people's response to previous crises, including the earthquake in Kobe in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Milan in the late 1700s to recover the Academy’s ideas and the policies they informed. At the core of their preoccupations lay the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare in an era when the three were becoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
evidence that the decline in performance outcomes stems from reduced effort or increased risk taking. Instead, errors in logic lead to a decline in performance, which suggests a cognitive explanation for the negative response to increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
of 2.5 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles with implications for growth policy and our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved functions/firms and to the rest of the organization or supply chain, and focus the paper on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
White stay-at-home mothers are idealized, while black stay-at-home mothers are stereotyped as lazy welfare exploiters, because unlike white mothers, society expects black mothers to work. In one experiment Cuddy described, participants... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic complements View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
formation, however, teams with a high average level of relationship orientation performed better than teams with a low average level of relationship orientation. Furthermore, a moderate degree of variance in relationship orientation among team members produced better... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
behave dishonestly (Study 1), and this relationship was mediated by impaired moral awareness (Study 2). Unlike individuals with moderate or low moral identity, individuals high in moral identity did not cheat more when they were depleted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
unresponsiveness of contribution rates to their tax treatment: (1) employee confusion about or neglect of the tax properties of Roth balances and (2) partition dependence. Publisher's link:... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
2018 Independently published Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking By: Zaltman, Gerald Abstract—What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to self-improvement via physical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The changes are isolated to firms relatively closer to default. The ruling was also followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in covenant use. Finally, we estimate the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
evolved a strong sense of responsibility for the welfare of their societies as they continue to overcome past legacies of impoverishment. Three recently added interviews illuminate these themes of transformational change and societal... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry, is scheduled to be published in April by Jossey-Bass. Mallory Stark: What is career imprinting? Monica Higgins: Career imprinting refers to the process by which individuals pick up View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark