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- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
tend to be more extreme (favorable or unfavorable) than other reviews, and the prevalence of suspicious reviews has grown significantly over time. Second, a restaurant is more likely to commit review fraud when its reputation is weak,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
Institutional Logics By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
productive working years. Managers who can design organizations that maximize mental health can minimize these risks and boost productivity. This note serves as a guide to understanding mental health in the American workplace. It provides an overview of the most View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
implication of this view holds that the prevalence of corporate chain restaurants affects the sociological character of communities, as many activists, popular-based movements, and theorists contend. The analysis we report here seeks to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
can be a competitor, but it can also be a collaborator” If anything, says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales S. Teixeira, that number understates the prevalence of media multitasking. "That 40 percent figure is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
prevalent for large diversified companies that operate in many different businesses. Financial analysts and investors may have an especially difficult time understanding what's going on in these companies, or may lack the industry... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an agency cost, due to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
that are more responsible socially and environmentally. Q: How prevalent are vanguard companies? A small parade? A: It's a growing parade, but it's not clear yet whether they are the exception or the rule—that's true of every change. And... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
problem-solving that conserves scarce cognitive resources. We then review 142 empirical studies, divided by organizational form into (1) industry studies, (2) firm studies, and (3) studies of open collaborative projects. The industry and firm studies indicate that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
fundamental reassessment of leadership and leadership development. The command-and-control model so prevalent in the twentieth century has ceased to be effective because it fails to motivate people, particularly younger generations that... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
the threshold for research and development (R&D) investment in an economically viable product. Further, the small size of patient populations for orphan drugs, together with the increasing prevalence of biologics among orphan drugs,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
name is worth remembering." Roosevelt said that in 1902, but it's a message that feels increasingly relevant, I think especially of Silicon Valley and its cultural acceptance of failure, which is so prevalent that there's even been... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
entrepreneur) did not study interventions to change this bias—which was as prevalent among female investors as among male investors—but she hopes the findings will spark conversations about how to change the disparity. “The first step is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
Morris, and Leonard Lee Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
backlash," to the point where it is probably fair to characterize the prevalent mood, among practitioners at least, as one of pessimism rather than optimism about globalization. The evidence reviewed in the paper that you cite... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50192 Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850 By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—Diversified business groups are well-known phenomena in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
interaction. They spend more time internally, specifically in pre-planned meetings that have more participants from different functions. The complementarity between span of control and the team model of interaction is more prevalent in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four studies indicate the prevalence of implicit voice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace