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- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
decision. Good leaders know when to think slow. All of us need mechanisms for helping us to know. Some elements of bureaucracy can be included among the devices. But, as Ganesh Ramakrishnan said, " we probably (need) to enrich the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very little about the circumstances under which individuals are likely to make more accurate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Churchill and Judah Folkman-and telling the stories of how they came to power and how they made the most important decisions of their lives, Indispensable reveals how, when, and where a single individual in the right place at the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
labels (vs. text warning labels, calorie labels, and no labels), provided insight into psychological mechanisms driving effectiveness, and assessed consumer sentiment. Study 1 indicated that graphic warning labels reduced the share of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
compensate him. The song was called "United Breaks Guitars." Within one week it received 3 million views and mainstream news coverage followed, with CNN, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, the CBS Morning Show, and many other print and electronic outlets picking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
quantitatively evaluate the different mechanisms by providing counterfactual simulations of temporary real exchange rate movements. Effects on physical TFP growth, while different across regions, are non-linear and asymmetric. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
the room in order to force its owner to get out of bed. Beset by media attention and consumer interest but still at least a year away from the ability to debut Clocky, Nanda must navigate a series of challenges and difficult decisions in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
conscious thought that produced the best results overall. It resulted in participants choosing options that were both compliant with the decision rule and had a high number of positive attributes. Q: One way you and colleagues have tried... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
uncommon service: You can't be good at everything. You must be bad in the service of good. Excellence requires underperforming on the dimensions your customers value least so that you can overperform on the dimensions your customers value most. Once you choose this... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
of distributed innovation and its potential merits as a corporate problem solving mechanism is discussed. Issues related to TopCoder's scalability, profitability, and growth are also explored. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Barron, Stephen George Leider, and Jennifer N. Stack Periodical:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In many contexts we are warned against engaging in risky behavior only after having past safe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
is an attempt to connect these two narratives. I provide early evidence that the growth of public university tuition over the previous two decades is negatively associated with movement into self-employment. Because labor market and education View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
By: Hałaburda, Hanna, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—The value of many products and services rises or falls with the number of customers using them; the fewer fax machines in use, the less important it is to have one. These network effects influence consumer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Studies Smart Money? The Effect of Education on Financial Outcomes By: Cole, Shawn A., Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract—Household financial decisions are important for household welfare, economic growth, and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and speculation (buying for resale). With diagnostic (but not with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008 By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne