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  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

extremely hard to do. Worse yet, it doesn't work. The bulldog doesn't suddenly become beautiful because it was forced to wear lipstick. Nothing else about the bulldog or its behavior has changed. It makes the bulldog angry. And the use of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

how a common strategic decision aimed at increasing one's own power, i.e., investing in outside options, can lead to opportunistic behavior in exchange relationships. Across three laboratory studies, we show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

Companies all over the world have striven for transparency in the workplace, literally tearing down walls in an effort to let managers and employees observe each other. Take, for example, one of the 14 key principles of The Toyota Way, Toyota Motor Corp.'s View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

invested in technology stocks, relative to their style benchmarks, than their older colleagues. Furthermore, young managers, but not old managers, exhibit trend-chasing behavior in their technology stock investments. As a result, young... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

is subject to isomorphic pressures, which cannot be completely explained by industry affiliation or peer group membership. Inter-firm professional network connections, such as board interlocks and compensation consultants, provide means and opportunities to observe and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

increasing managerial slack, and/or to GPs making it attractive for executives to go along with some value-decreasing acquisitions that do not serve shareholders' long-term interests. Our findings have significant implications for ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

situations, for example; and being in the spotlight—that is, working in the presence of an audience. Individually, these factors can seriously impair managerial decision making; together, their consequences can be dire, as evidenced by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Actions That Benefit Others Authors: F. Gino, S. Ayal, and D. Ariely Publication: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (forthcoming) Abstract In three experiments, we propose and find that individuals cheat more when others can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

F. Ward, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (forthcoming) Abstract When people are the victims of greed or recipients of generosity, their first impulse is often to pay back that behavior in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana Abstract As the main producers of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial organization posit that integration, while costly, increases productivity. It follows from firms' maximizing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

managers. Health care innovators must master not only managerial skills but also the complex forces affecting the sector." One clear message emerging from the conference was the importance of change management. How are concepts underlying... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis Authors:Charles T. Horngren, George Foster, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav Rajan, and Chris Ittner Publication:13th ed. Prentice Hall, 2009 Abstract Emphasizing the "different costs for different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the spotlight has turned on the academics who've studied creativity for decades. How relevant is their research to the practical challenges leaders face? To connect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

produces slower learning in human subjects than the standard second price auction mechanism. Our results also serve to highlight differences in behavior between simulated agents and human bidders that mechanism designers should take into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

later and if so, how? The friendship formation of students at a large Canadian university was assessed during their first term. These data were used to predict self-reported health and health behaviors (physical exercise, diet, tobacco,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

after it was published. In graduate school, it convinced me to go into organizational behavior instead of social psychology. It’s a very influential book, and certainly personally important to me. What is the back story of Men and Women... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

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