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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
extra-industry professional networks will, through normative conformity, be more likely to adopt turnkey practices; second, that the normative pressure of professional networks will interact with the mimeticism of industry peers such that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
stakeholders and peer agencies have a positive influence on product approval and that their effects vary under different dimensions of uncertainty. We also discuss the implications of these findings for business-government relations and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO expensing relative to a control sample of S&P 500 firms; (ii) within targeted firms, the likelihood of adoption increases in the degree of voting support for the proposal; (iii) non-targeted firms were more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
right industry and time to start new ventures. Entrepreneurs with demonstrated market timing skill are also more likely to outperform industry peers in their subsequent ventures. This is consistent with the view that if suppliers and... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-039%20Nov%202012_612ce7e2-7f81-4eea-9126-3c0964f2be2f.pdf August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
File Sharing Networks Authors:Albert Creus Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Andres Hervas-Drane Periodical:Computer Communications (forthcoming) Abstract We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
or navigational guide, the appointment and training of a peer coach, and a dialogue between the new executives and their direct reports, managed by a trained facilitator. The onboarding plan identifies both formal and informal... View Details
- 29 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Will I Stay or Will I Go? How Gender and Race Affect Turnover at ‘Up-or-Out’ Organizations
higher proportion of peers who are similar to them in terms of gender and race, it actually increases their likelihood of exiting an organization. Bringing about the changes that are necessary to increase retention of women and minorities... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
What’s the difference between having an adviser, external coach, internal coach, and therapist? Should I join a peer support group? I’m often asked these questions. With so many options these days it’s hard to know which to choose or how... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
By the end of his early career, Williams had won additional supporters within the company, including Barrett's boss and several white peers who, when they were promoted to management before Williams, vouched for him with their colleagues... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
School Professor Rembrand M. Koning. Like party guests who refuse to mingle, entrepreneurs tend to gravitate toward people they already know at these programs, especially if they participate as a team, diminishing the learning potential. “These institutions may be... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
particularly strongly and to construct risk indicators to predict taxpayers' responses. We show results from an application in Chile and describe lessons learned during the implementation. August 2013 JAMA Surgery Informal Peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
precisely pin down the safest loans to back. If platforms limit the amount of information available, the playing field is more level and a wider variety of investors have a better shot at choosing cream-of-the-crop loans. Not your parents’ bank View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
however, depends on the number of peers in the network, the amount of people that share, the state of broadband infrastructure, and the "resolution" of content. Intuitively, a better broadband infrastructure should make p2p more... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
research shows that in the 10 cities with the largest Airbnb market share in the US, the entry of Airbnb resulted in 1.3 percent fewer hotel nights booked and a 1.5 percent loss in hotel revenue. The paper, The Welfare Effects of Peer... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-070.pdf Search Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Applying a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne