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  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

Firms Use Non-linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence Authors: Ian Larkin and Stephen Leider Abstract Non-linear incentive schemes are commonly used to determine employee pay, despite their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft," says Light. "So... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

gift giving passed "title" to the gift on to receivers-such that receivers were free to decide what to do with the gift; in contrast, receivers believed that givers retained some "say" in how their gifts were used. Finally, an intervention View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds the brief interactions described in the helping literature. Such deep help consisted of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

decrease them during the downturn. Both results are in line with the behavior of inexperienced investors in experimental asset markets. The economic significance of young managers' actions is amplified by large inflows into their funds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

organizational changes since 2005, the most recent of which started in 2012. His latest experimentation was turning Haier into a platform for entrepreneurship. Employees and those outside Haier could set up microenterprises on Haier’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jan 2012
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Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The researchers used an evaluation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

assisting buyers with the move and with their decisions about what to keep and to discard. Sales took off. The key to successful innovation is identifying jobs that are poorly performed in customers’ lives and then designing products,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

  PublicationsFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior Authors:L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn Publication:In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

important strategic considerations for managers selecting supplier factories and provide key insights for the design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

lead to reduced economic productivity subsequent to exposure to temptation. Using a design inspired by the classic "Marshmallow Test," we report data from a field experiment in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 were... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

rate. We discuss the implications of our findings for retail inventory and assortment planning and for the design of retail stores.   Working PapersDoes Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

Leadership—An Ontological Model' Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

that our experimental design minimizes informational social influence, homophily, and group-identity signaling to the general public. We find that there exists significant social influence within a user’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

and Experimentation Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer. Oxford University Press, 2011 An abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

organizational design so as to reinforce and enable each other. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68-76 Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work By: Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Abstract—Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

concern with appearing fair to others. In Experiments 1-2, most 6- to 8-year-old children behaved fairly towards others when an experimenter was aware of their choices; fewer children opted to behave fairly, however, when they could be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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