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- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
Hildreth. “We provided evidence suggesting loyalty can be a good thing, but there is a big caveat, which is beware when you tell people what their loyalty demands because that can have a strong blinding aspect to it.” In the case of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
negotiators believe they are capable of distinguishing between situations in which they can safely rely on intuition from those that require more careful thought—but often they are wrong. In fact, most of us trust our intuition more than View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
reliance on evidence to inform their decision-making, and their openness to revisiting decisions when needed, business leaders should certainly be doing the same. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, for example, has made frequent and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
all, though, he encourages investors to be wary of reentering the market until there is real evidence that the systemic flaws that created this catastrophe are being addressed. — Laura Singleton (MBA ’88) When You Say Yes but Mean No by... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
medium-to-strong community structures. Convention networks, which feature high network connectedness and weak community structures, were not evident among the empirical networks we examined. Taken together, our findings advance an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we derive an analytical expression that reveals the forces determining optimal commodity taxation. We then calibrate the model to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
payment arrangements that support international trade. It describes the principal instruments of trade finance, the limited evidence on their relative use, and the international trade dispute resolution mechanisms that form the backdrop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
method patents that were litigated compared to patents that were not litigated offer empirical evidence supporting the hypotheses. Cases & Course MaterialsThe AtekPC Project Management Office Harvard Business School Case 308-049... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
strong differences remained among consumer markets. Although American influence was strong, it was already evident that globalization had not resulted in the creation of a stereotyped American blonde and blue-eyed female beauty ideal as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
better leaders themselves while they are doing all these other things. Thus far, we have not seen much evidence — either along the campaign trail or since the election — that Mr. Trump meets most of these criteria. But I think many voters... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This is the first concrete View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
need to call a convention. There's no evidence in his correspondence that he thinks he's going to become the chief financial officer of the country. The Treasury Act that's passed shortly after Washington's inauguration creates the... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
hyperbolic discounting and shows in the field that the impact of intrapersonal conflict can be large in magnitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
and therefore are afraid of trying them. The second caution is that there is some evidence that at least in some simulations that what you learn is to be better at the simulations, and that may or may not help you in a real world... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
PELP-developed cases. PELP in Action Less quantifiable, but arguably more important, is evidence that PELP is influencing practice. PELP faculty often point to the practical applications of the "Coherence Framework," a conceptual tool... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
taking in the U.S. is inconclusive. The evidence for and social welfare implications of claimed effects such as fewer IPOs or loss of foreign listings are unclear. Financial reporting quality appears to have gone up after SOX, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
educating students while they are here and to reach out to our graduates throughout their careers. We now have powerful tools that will help us make the case method more relevant than ever, and as a faculty, we are starting to take the steps to turn the vision into... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
banks over a five-year period provides evidence that these customer-level differences are explained in part by customer compatibility. Customers whose needs diverge more starkly from those of their bank’s average customers report... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne