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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
at all until we cure cancer.'" (Shifting goals constantly, on the other hand, would be an inhibitor. Imagine a meeting at which the leader says something to the effect of, "Do this because I said so, and never mind that I said the exact View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
launch a new blockchain currency to facilitate financial services for unbanked and underbanked customers in emerging markets via their smartphone. Santos had to decide whether to go forward with the new plan despite regulatory risk, execution risk, and vocal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
candidate’s party. While the canvasser visits increased voter participation by 1.8 percentage points, the candidate visits had no effect. That effect was the opposite of what Pons and Cantoni anticipated. “We were expecting the students... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
in his 2012 paper, Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency. According to Silk, industry opposition to an agency serving competing accounts is driven by two... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
this decision holds that incumbent broadcasters opposed expansion (to avoid increased competition) and succeeded in capturing the FRC. Although successful broadcaster opposition may be taken as confirming evidence for this interpretation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
employees had legitimate concerns about the project that they never felt free to voice. Some managers err in the opposite direction. They don't advocate at all, opting instead to simply inquire. So they assemble a large team of trusted... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
the federal government to create new clusters in the United States. He points to the rise of biotech in Harvard's backyard, which began despite government opposition in the 1970s. Clusters "tend to emerge much more organically, and they... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Hernandez of New York University, dive into the topic in their working paper Political Identity and Trust. “Our biggest headline finding is that it seems that it’s beliefs that drive trust, not taste" If it seems we are a nation of View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
opposite way than that suggested by the social norm: they punish transgressors more severely on their birthdays, both in the realm of actual drunk driving enforcement and in an experimental lab setting where participants were given the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
where distant employees work sequentially around the clock, can work well for highly routine, simple, or administrative tasks that require little real-time communication. But opposite schedules are less effective for complex, team-based... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
does that experience change the slant and bias of their contributions over time? Despite heterogeneity in contributors and their contributions, we find an overall trend towards less segregated conversations. Contributors tend to edit articles with slants that are the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Finally, any workforce redesign must overcome opposition from professional bodies, individual practitioners, and regulators. England's experience suggests that progress is possible if workforce redesigns are planned carefully and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55235 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
year. But suddenly, she hits political roadblocks-the local Democratic mayor, facing a tough reelection and urged by the local taxi association, calls for more regulation of her business. Erin's board urges her to actively back the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
I. Norton Abstract Three studies demonstrate how culture shapes the contents of gender stereotypes, such that men are perceived as possessing more of whatever traits are culturally valued. In Study 1, Americans rated men as less interdependent than women; Koreans,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
are managed by sophisticated real-time information systems; colleagues working 12 time zones apart can see and hear each other as they work at their desks—or in airport lounges on opposite sides of the planet. Publications, like this one,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
overhauling other parts of the public system, in order to afford a perceived cut in tax revenues through a flat tax implementation, is needed. This, however, does not indicate that the opposite is impossible. The fact that many countries... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Undoubtedly, goals calibrated to maximization have the power to inspire. "Be all that you can be" sounds more like a virtue than a vice. "Go further than humankind has ever gone." Who would argue the opposite as a rule... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson