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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
responsibility, would add little to the candidate's development. Instead she was given a general management assignment—and the team got a signal from the CEO about his commitment to diversity. His behavior communicated a sense of... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
and partisan perceptions. In short, you have grasped your own problem clearly and have sought to understand and influence the other side's such that what it chooses is what you want. Plenty of errors still lie in wait: cultural gaffes, an irritating style, inadvertent... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 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
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
and Dan Ariely Publication:Psychological Science 21 (2010) Abstract Although people buy counterfeit products to signal positive traits, we show that wearing counterfeit products makes individuals feel less authentic and increases their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them. Extensions address screening... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
AW: There’s a lot of interesting research that shows that hourly wage workers think about their time differently than salaried employees. When you take the resource of time—which typically links you to things you care about such as View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Extensions address screening and signaling in hiring, the effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
multiple identities into five different theoretical perspectives: social psychological, microsociological, psychodynamic and developmental, critical, and intersectional. I then propose a way to take research on multiple identities forward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
home removes the usual social signals about when to eat or drink. Don’t rely on feeling hungry or thirsty! Put meals and hydration times on your to-do list or set alarms if necessary. One of us recently... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 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
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
could prevent if we only knew what to look for. This book plays on that fear and offers a positive, proactive resolution to it. Two leading experts in managerial decision making show that many disasters in business are preceded by clear warning View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace