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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have identical preferences and investment opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
also preferred to recruit people with an engineering or technical background, while traditionally British managers were chosen on the basis of "character." The firms and entrepreneurs of the United States, Britain, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor markets share three stylized facts:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
those of the owners." Hall's research has led him to conclude that annual option arrangements such as "fixed value" and "fixed number" plans are typically preferable to one-time option grants. A fixed value... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
projected tenure of 12 months or longer. The Review Committee's preference is to fund graduates who are joining operating companies over those joining investment funds/vehicles. Your job is based full-time in a country or territory in... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
energy around aerospace as government has opened up the sector to privatization. Students passionate about space often bring a unique combination of technical and managerial skills and are finding opportunities to add value to companies that View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
would affect that relationship? Is it about culture, leadership, perspective? How do organizations such as Deloitte, McKinsey, IKEA, and Bank of America think about gender diversity? Which practices work, and which don't? By the way, I View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
here. Culture tells us how to behave in a meeting. It tells us who gets to take up space automatically and who has to work for it. It tells us whether we should follow the rules or cut corners, whether we should share or hoard... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
alluring qualities of a brand without committing to it. We propose that brand flirting is exciting and that when consumers flirt with a brand other than their typically preferred brand in the same product category, they can transfer this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie John Abstract—Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
airlines increase their retail prices. So all buyers essentially end up sharing the fees, even if they choose to forego the intermediary. Thus begins a vicious cycle of increasing costs. With price coherence in place, intermediaries need... View Details
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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
unconscious bias is affinity bias in which people tend to gravitate towards others who look, act, and think as they do. In recruiting specifically, unconscious bias and affinity bias often express themselves as a preference for one... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
companies shouldn’t have policy notices—after all, given the choice, customers do seem to prefer them. The research does suggest, however, that companies might be better off setting them, and letting customers forget them. “I would... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
ensures that the information within it is correct. If the draft contains certain observations or data they prefer not to have mentioned, they let the researcher know. Then the company authorizes the case. A case is never published without... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
increases one’s bargaining power. A minimally necessary condition for an agreement to be mutually acceptable is that each side prefers the deal to its BATNA. Thus, how well each party’s BATNA serves its interests determines whether a zone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
searches.) Studies show that customers prefer waiting when the work being done is transparent—even when the waits are longer or the results are no better than those obtained with shorter waits. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne