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- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
at the expense of others. You have the license to be a bank because you're supposed to make the world a better place. Instead, when a group of banks makes very poor decisions, all because individuals were doing something that was better... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
religion—an increasing number of people are abandoning their faith. As commitment wanes, religious involvement may become detrimental to well-being, and individuals may be better off seeking new affiliations. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
towards enhancing its cluster, both individually and collectively through trade organizations. The Cluster Mapping Project reveals the detailed patterns of cluster location across the United States. It allows an evaluation of whether a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510063-PDF-ENG Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts G. Felda Hardymon and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-098 Creative Capital provides grants to individual artists... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
individual is an increasingly common issue. Industrial Revolution thinking tries to get around it by trying to extract expertise from individuals and systematize it; the golden goose doesn't exist because... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
religiosity at the individual level and employing a religious prime. That is, the more religious people are, the less willing they are to follow through on novel purchase opportunities that arise during their grocery shopping trips. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
life-saving health products and services, whether to distribute them for free, or whether to give additional incentives for individuals to use them. This note describes the latest, cutting-edge research on how pricing influences the end... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
made. Each step consists of a set of tasks that individually are minimum rational work elements. These are combined to form the work assignment associated with the step. The work follows the same sequence of operations as it moves down... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
that Invest Early children were better prepared for kindergarten than their low-income counterparts and the proficiency gap between Invest Early and high-income children had decreased significantly. Integrating and sustaining such a complicated network of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
the need to recoup shareholder value after paying a two-times premium for Sirtris with his desire to retain Christoph Westphal, Sirtris's co-founder and CEO, and other key individuals at the company. His desire to protect Sirtris from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating options to improve the system by substituting or experimenting on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
willing to serve." Boards also can make it feel safer for directors to give honest assessments by hiring an outsider to interview each board member individually and aggregate the information for both the board and the CEO. "That... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
games with complete information. Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work Authors:Jennifer Kish Gephart, James R. Detert, Linda K. Trevino, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Research in Organizational Behavior (forthcoming). Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
medication, which alleviates a health problem, or the face cream, which enhances skin care. But other individuals and groups also satisfy our definition: Pharmacy chains, distributors, hospitals, physicians, and research scientists all... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possible in the work world. For the individual women who are thinking about professional re-entry, it's often hard to break the frame of "what is now" to think about "what could be," Hart says. For example, a marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
an outsized influence relative to other homicides. Our estimates suggest that the per-death impact of mass shootings on bills introduced is about 66 times as large as the impact of individual gun homicides in non-mass shooting incidents.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
model, poor people give little because they expect donations to come mainly from richer individuals. In others, donations by poor individuals constitute a large fraction of donations, and this raises the incentive for poor people to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
school officials to believe everything was fine. But it wasn't. In the Boston system, students would send a ranked list to the city. (Unlike in New York, Boston did not include administrators of individual schools in the process.) The... View Details