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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency. Experiments 1A, 1B, and 1C... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
good thing?" Tabellini asks. "Or is it something that eventually might, because of this multiplier effect, harm the local labor market even more, slowing down its recovery relative to what would have happened?" Tabellini, who specializes... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
neutral, or even harmful to minting winning ideas. Testing for personality Koning and Hasan detail their findings in the paper Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment, to be published in Research Policy this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation incentives. This paper examines this issue, exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
the weapon, if the only intention for making the purchase was to do harm within a certain period of time. “The most plausible explanation as to why waiting periods work is this: People have visceral states, such as anger or suicidal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
(1) in the context of denying harm to the environment than in the context of claiming to help the environment, and (2) in situations where behaviors are evaluated subjectively than in situations where behaviors are evaluated more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
Center researcher Namrata Arora uncover a complicated mix of piracy and plagiarism that harm not only Hollywood's efforts at success in the Indian market, but local Bollywood companies as well. Iyer says the case can help students and... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
in our uncertain world, sometimes an unethical action causes harm, and sometimes it does not. We argue that a rational assessment of ethicality should not depend on the identifiability of the victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Business School. The module outlined in this note also can be used as the basis for a short standalone course on the role and responsibilities of business in society. The framework developed in this module centers on managing harms to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
ensure that, except during downturns, when new fiscal stimulus is required, new spending and tax cuts do not add to the deficit The risks associated with high debt levels are small relative to the harm cutting deficits would do.” Have we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
customers, and competitors? Perhaps most important, have you considered the impact of your agreement on society in general? A consideration of how those not at the table are affected by your decisions can help you clarify whether the value you've created benefits or... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
eliminate more than 70 percent of fraud without decreasing profit. As he explained in his blog: "By delaying payments, a merchant or network differentially harms bad affiliates (who rightly worry they may get caught) without unduly... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
collectively, they need to work harder to expose and shut down the charlatans. At the same time, critics of marketing conflate their objection to harmful products such as tobacco with hostility towards the marketing toolkit harnessed to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
access the results of that study, she may be less inclined to repeat it," he says. "This reduction in duplication can lead to lower costs without harming quality." Productivity losses are not inevitable, and not every small practice will... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
that this policy was doing more harm than good and driving capital from the state. With the governor pushing for action, it was up to the state legislature to decide how to proceed. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
“lean-in" and negotiate more. In an environment where women who negotiate achieve positive returns, we find that negotiating more is costly: women appear to know when to ask. Relative to women, men enter negotiations more often and experience less financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
queries or comments, that person is more likely to keep asking questions and contributing ideas. “If I ask for your help and you kindly give it to me, you didn’t harm my psychological safety one bit,” Edmondson says. On the other hand, if... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
the company's terms of service forbid content that "promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment, or harm against any individual or group." Hosts are responsible for setting their own prices for the properties they... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
contingent claims analysis (CCA). We illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset their potentially harmful effects. This new framework provides economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne