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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
hospital industry. We posit that mandatory nonfinancial performance measurement has an information effect and a referent performance effect. The information (referent performance) effect arises because the new performance signals induce more precise posterior beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons within firms, particularly those with geographically dispersed managers-managers with the greatest information frictions. Following the controversy, pay in dispersed firms co-moves more and is less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
until this point, momentum was a strategy employed nearly exclusively by hedge funds, and thus not an available investment strategy to most individual investors. This case highlights the difficulties in implementing this "mutual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
price of Facebook,” says Viceira, “but when you look at national markets of developed economies, they all have utilities, airlines, manufacturing companies, telecom companies, so you might expect them to move together more than any View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
in which a supplier builds a persistent demand and designs production to perpetuate that brand's most enticing qualities. The third age, embodied by the book clubs, is that of interactive marketing, where a company uses individual... View Details
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
(b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
with less." Using data from 2006 to 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay By: Hernandez, Pablo, Dylan B. Minor, and Dana Sisak Abstract—We experimentally study ways in which the social preferences of individuals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
But the article also shows how individuals behave in concert because of the self-fueling trajectory in which response provokes response, in either positive or negative directions, in what are more popularly termed winning streaks and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
difference in experience across the entire team) and intrapersonal team diversity (i.e., whether individuals on the team are more or less specialized). We also examine whether team familiarity—team members' prior experience working with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
What were the key steps in how the Indian modern art market went from essentially a nonexistent category to one where individual paintings were being sold for millions of dollars? A: The market for modern Indian art was created in three... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages from banks and other motivated sellers. The idea was to purchase mortgage loans at a discount and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
negative relation between this measure and both future stock returns and future profitability. The economic and statistical significance of our results is stronger than in previous research focusing on individual categories of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
especially small- and medium-sized domestic companies. They provide the jobs, the income, and the motivation for individuals to become educated and move up in the world. For local business to flourish, however, it often needs access to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall Abstract—People often feel malicious envy, a destructive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
2009), Senior Program Officer, The Kresge Foundation Just what does it mean for a city to go bankrupt? Bankruptcies are so commonly associated with firms and individuals that we tend to use the same mental models to evaluate Detroit's... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. Making choices public moves men from putting money into their own account to consumption; communication with their spouse drives men to put income in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
related to the possession of deep individual technical skills in hundreds of diverse disciplines," the researchers conclude in their paper, Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. "Boeing's unique... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
D. KC, and F. Gino Abstract—Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their beliefs, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
demonstrates the mutual interconnectivity among the three key facets of management: strategic positioning, organizational design, and individual leadership. The authors highlight both the manner in which strategy informs leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino