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  • 07 Jun 2019
  • Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

purpose; managers need to answer not just what the team should or could be doing, but also why doing so matters. All of us, particularly the younger generations in the workforce, want to be in organizations where we can make a difference. If MBAs are to work hard and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

products. We find that public choices in which participants display their preferences to others encourage feature-seeking behavior, but that the anticipation of having to use a product in front of others provides an incentive to avoid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

https://hbr.org/2015/03/starbucks-race-together-campaign-and-the-upside-of-ceo-activism April 2015 Strong Brands, Strong Relationships Framing the Game: How Brands' Relationships with Their Competitors Affect Consumer Preference By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

Departing from prior work that has mainly focused on examining the antecedents and consequences of dishonesty, we examine two approaches to mitigating unethical behavior: (1) values-oriented approaches that broadly appeal to individuals' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

alternative—in this case, continuing to search for a viable site. The next step is to double-check your calculations by comparing the hypothetical deals. If Jim discovers that he'd subjectively prefer the orchard property, then he should... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

goal is not to identify the "best" program, but rather to lay out the range of innovations to meet the needs of heterogeneous potential savers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-075.pdf   Cases & Course Materials2006 Hurricane View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational goals (e.g., profits) and private benefits (e.g., operating in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to assign new players to teams. This allows for a discussion of whether a similar system may be preferable to lottery-based or bidding-based procedures to assign students to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

unethical. In four experiments, participants wore purportedly fake or authentically branded sunglasses. Those wearing fake sunglasses cheated more across multiple tasks than did participants wearing authentic sunglasses, both when they believed they had a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by providing both enough time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

Tommy Koh to negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade agreement serve as an extended case study of a complex, multiparty negotiation that illustrates and further elaborates the concept of a negotiation campaign. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2539774... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

individual differences in social dominance orientation-a preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality-interacts with perceptions of socioeconomic threat to influence the use of hypodescent in categorizing half-Black, half-White... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

communication on payoffs in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to be more truthful and revealing than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference revealing, it may effectively frame bargaining around a logic of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

are better designed to cope with scalability issues. Incentive schemes that reward users as a function of their contributions help improve sharing, but they introduce other distortions, and the legal risks of sharing limit their efficacy.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

AFC. However, a broader set of emerging market countries show weaker liquidity, solvency, and profitability indicators. More countries are also in the Altman Z-score's “grey zone,” that is, at risk for corporate distress. Regression... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

re-conceptualize its strategy to focus on system-level change. While there were numerous risks to pursuing the alternative strategy for Schramm and Segal, the possibility of helping redefine the purpose of secondary education might be too... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

cultural narratives around economic mobility, the Australian data closely replicated the United States findings. Misperceptions of wealth inequality as well as preferences for more equal distributions may be common across developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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