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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor markets share three stylized facts:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC to require CEOs to personally attest to... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
own workers and consumers. Frontiers of Capital signals the wide-ranging role of anthropology in explaining the social and cultural contours of the New Economy. Purchase book: http://www.dukeupress.edu The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
e-mails. But the message takes hold only if he or she also signals a dislike of disruptive, divisive behaviors by pointedly—and, if necessary, publicly—criticizing them. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the chiefs of medicine,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
innovation, and peer production—relate to theories of the firm, with particular attention on “sociality” in firms and markets. We first briefly review extant theories of the firm and then discuss three theoretical aspects of sociality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
interest to customers (earthquakes, fires, conflicts at key border crossings) and to autonomously instruct the constellation to monitor them in a process known as “tipping and cueing.” The platform’s algorithms can interpret the radio identification View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
clearly a signal was given: Don’t get complacent. You have to earn your keep. And if you do, you will be rewarded. A: That’s right. And people can accept more responsibility if you let them. That was a smart move because the advertising... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Will you ever again step onto a crowded elevator without hesitation? Reach for a doorknob without concern (or gloves)? Easing social distancing restrictions might reopen businesses, but as long as memories of COVID-19 lockdowns are still... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
"what-if" scenarios. Encouraging and incorporating dissent will signal to team members across the hierarchy that it is acceptable—even expected—to disagree. Similarly, teams can begin sessions by going around the table and soliciting... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
Although 40 percent of WPP's business still comes from the United States—a reflection of the continuing dominance of this country's multinationals and financial services firms—Sorrell's frequent visits to what he calls "faster growing markets" View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
technology: the desire to signal to others. We present a field experiment where participants can choose to give up money if they do not follow through with an action. When commitment choices are made public rather than kept private, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for attendance, and champion an organizational culture that fosters pro-health attitudes. Show gratitude and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
said. Crowdsourcing isn’t exactly new. Lakhani, who is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, pointed out that the HBS campus was actually... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
pro-health attitudes. Show gratitude and facilitate social time to boost morale Whillans: Recent studies have found links between employee happiness and organizational outcomes, such as productivity, absenteeism, and motivation. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
their stuff embarrasses them. Their Range Rovers no longer tell the world that they are sophisticated town and country socialites. There are simply too many of them on the road to offer much social status. Worse, they now View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
REALLY MATTERS IN THE WORKPLACE IS HELPING EMPLOYEES FEEL APPRECIATED.” Rewards that signal to employees that they did a good job and that their manager cares about them will encourage employees to want to work even harder, the research... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace