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- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
2002). No prior evidence at a societal level has manipulated both structural predictors and measured both stereotypes and prejudices. In the present study, participants (n = 120) responded to an immigration scenario depicting a high- or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
This scenario may sound familiar, unfortunately: Your flight begins with poking and prodding by the TSA agent, all to wait for the inevitable delayed departure. Boarding extends the indignities: more waiting while your section is called,... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
It's well understood that cash bonuses often motivate a sales force to step up its game, but they don't work in every scenario and in some cases can backfire, a new study from Harvard Business School has found. The key variable? Whether... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
mainstream big tobacco companies. But playing out the scenario to the end, that is exactly what may happen—and all in the absence of any definitive data showing whether e-cigarettes are more or less harmful to public health than tobacco... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative skepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk envisionment, aiming to provide top management with alternative future View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
executives compare the cash flows from innovation against the default scenario of doing nothing, assuming—incorrectly—that the present health of the company will persist indefinitely if the investment is not made. In most situations,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
progress that the firm is making." 2. Hiring skilled immigrants increased the immigrant share of these workers. This may seem obvious, Kerr points out. However, under the Microsoft scenario of four new hires for every one immigrant, the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect information concerning the quality of the firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and extend these findings through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
oDesk for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
degree of uncertainty and possibility. While we can look back at some transformative changes that have occurred such as downloading of music and getting news online, the future path is still unfolding. This book is intended to be provocative as we develop View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
decisions regarding strategy, tactics, and then produce instructions for the team. But that scenario doesn't represent real life, as far as I understand it or experience it, because the goal and the strategy is changing constantly. There... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
fear of speaking up, even with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and, for many, a source of intense negative affect. A second study used scenarios about speaking up to deepen and extend these findings. Quantitative and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
the costs and benefits of land placed under different uses. Policy scenarios then determine the amount of land under each land use and the implications for costs, benefits, and carbon emissions. A "low-carbon development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Asia, which are both high technology and linked to U.S. production systems. So I want to draw your attention to the fact that we really need to be clear, and I hope we're right also about the distinctions of the short term and the medium to long term. Our medium- to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
dictate people should be treated preferentially. We first use a scenario study to establish that individuals expect leniency on their birthday. We then show that, compared to other days, transgressors are penalized more severely when it's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies 1 and 2) and real tasks involving the opportunity to cheat (Studies 3 and 4), we find that one's own dishonest behavior increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
organization. You attach it to real conversations that people have again and again.” The idea is to touch on all kinds of scenarios to clearly outline the behaviors that are off limits. While it might be obvious that some unwelcome... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
for workers who leave for competitors, and ensure that they are aware of these costs. The goal isn’t 100 percent retention, but avoiding the worst-case scenario of talented people joining the competition, taking clients with them. Advice... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace