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Deborah Resnick
Deborah (HBS '06) has deep expertise in consulting (breaking into consulting, navigating a career in consulting, and breaking out!), complemented by a diverse set of operational and managerial experience across Fortune 500 companies and a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
Membership on a corporate or advisory board seems like a natural fit for MBAs with solid managerial skills and career experience. But according to the experts, unless you are a prominent CEO, finding a seat at the boardroom table today... View Details
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
and policies is a crucial aspect in taking informed managerial decisions. Adverse macroeconomic and political phenomena can have a catastrophic impact on firm performance: witness the strong companies destroyed by the Mexican tequila... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
and Prevention. “We spent the first year understanding the landscape around gun policy and research,” says Luca, whose research largely focuses on applying insights from behavioral economics to improve View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
system in Germany is more cumbersome than the U.S. system. Germans are more formal in their interpersonal behavior inside corporations than Americans, which often leads to an appearance of stuffiness or stiffness. The use of titles or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices. The gap between perceptions and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
the trusted ones. When physicians are aware of these breaches, yet remain silent, we are in the midst of a moral gray zone. Two broader implications can be drawn from this example. First, leniencies are part of the managerial toolkit.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
response to rivals’ anticipated and actual behavior in game scenarios. Furthermore, coaches are subject to constraints on the number of players allowed on their rosters and on the budget available to spread across their rosters. In other... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
savings, or fertility behavior in African nations. However we do find weak evidence that AIDS has lead to a slow-down in education gains, as measured by youth literacy, and a rise in poverty, as measured by malnutrition. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2011
- Article
Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work
By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details
Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
Detert, J. R., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work." Academy of Management Journal 54, no. 3 (June 2011): 461–488.
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
(see sidebar). “What business managers and leaders most have to share with education officials lies in the domain of organizational behavior and human resources,” says Leschly. “Education is a people-intensive activity, and businesses... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
from CEE, Wood knows the benefits of a strong math class—even one that didn't come easily at first. For her, it was an HBS class taught by Howard Raiffa, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics. "He was brilliant," she says.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
produce rigorous, managerially relevant research, and I’d like to see more out there,” he says. “In the case of advertising effectiveness, I thought: What if you take small businesses and give them advertisements for a three-month span,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
authority, win trust and respect, motivate others, and become leaders. Hill’s book, which has received wide acclaim, contains numerous insights for prospective and new managers, those responsible for developing new managers, and academics with an interest in View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
likelihood of detecting and reporting existing accounting irregularities. This suggests that for U.S. listed foreign firms, less frequent restatements can be a signal of opportunistic reporting rather than a lack of accounting errors and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
about the incentives and behaviors of managers, analysts, and investors. The authors highlight three features of the distributional properties of Street earnings data, which are that (i) differences between Street and GAAP earnings are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
the United States, the time, cost, and complications of patent suits provide openings for opportunistic assertions of infringement. This article proposes a way to address information problems that facilitate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
managerial economist Robert Schlaifer. These men were pioneers in the art and science of negotiation in both the business and diplomatic realms. By nature private and confidential, negotiation shuns the limelight and thus is either... View Details