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Third-Party Punishment as a Costly Signal of High Continuation Probabilities in Repeated Games

Why do individuals pay costs to punish selfish behavior, even as third-party observers? A large body of research suggests that reputation plays an important role in motivating such third-party punishment (TPP). Here we focus on a recently proposed reputation-based... View Details

Keywords: Direct Reciprocity; Evolution; Dispersal; Cooperation; Trust; Reputation; Game Theory

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18 May 2012
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Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

outperformed non-mentored workers by 18 percent, and they also tended to stay with the company longer, according to a recent study by Harvard Business School professor Christopher T. Stanton and three other... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

love the product? Or investors who believed in the founder and her dream? Many entrepreneurs rightly want to protect the interests of these constituencies, Eisenmann says, and will strive to do so by keeping... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Life at Harvard - Doctoral

Life at Harvard Life at Harvard Tour the Campus Our vibrant residential campus is designed to develop skills and build relationships that last a lifetime. Quality of life is a priority here. Doctoral students enjoy the many View Details

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

complexities of working in social enterprise. Independent Projects Organizations benefit directly from student interaction and output, as teams work on a project of strategic importance to the organization... View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

in those areas. As people draw on each other's experience and knowledge, they begin to build a lasting advisory network. Clearly one of the long-term benefits of the program is being part of such a fantastic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2011
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Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments

Keywords: by Melissa A. Valentine, Ingrid M. Nembhard & Amy C. Edmondson; Health

01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

before they escalate Secure maximum value for your organization and yourself Reflect on personal behaviors and refine your approach to be more effective Who Will Benefit... View Details

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

says. Adds Størmer, "There are probably business benefits in relying on radical simplicity to free and empower employees in a similar way." Our e-mail Q&A follows. Martha Lagace: Miles Davis... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

03 Jun 2022
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In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

the benefits of the “work-from-anywhere” movement for both companies and workers. “There’s been brain drain from small towns into large urban clusters, but I don't think we have seen the spatial... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

08 Dec 2020
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Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

can go out and find everyone who has the skill listed on a platform like GitHub,” Koning says. Workers can also benefit from the rise in recruiting. They might receive requests from companies that weren’t on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

14 Jan 2020
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The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

benefits to not hyper-focusing and having a broader set of knowledge and experience,” Nagle says. Who is the master now? They discovered that when it comes to innovation,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jan 2018
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How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

people can weigh the costs and benefits of their current behavior taking into consideration its implications for the future, and still choose to engage. One way to test whether... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2021
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Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

ahead-of-its-time health benefits to its workers in the 1930s and beyond, Nicholas notes. But the company also was engulfed in a high-profile price-fixing scandal in the early 1960s that led some GE... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

confer. At the bottom of the value stick, employee WTS is the lowest compensation a person is willing to accept for performing a particular type of work. Pay an employee less than his WTS, and he will walk... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

25 Jul 2005
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Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

social sciences. After all, these people make us feel good because they reaffirm the validity of our own characteristics and attitudes. But there's a business, as well as a psychological, benefit when... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, writers at the HBS Alumni Bulletin turned to five HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

ho-hum and quickly forgotten? Stefan Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explains that “the difference has less to do with catchy marketing View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

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