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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

your negotiation or decision. Unless someone has given you specific, credible information that time truly is of the essence, avoid succumbing to pressure tactics. Strategy 3: Partition the negotiation across multiple sessions. Human... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives Are Eliminated during Institutionalization looks at factors that make us take information for granted, even when the information isn't accurate. For example, the common perception is that the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

"custom assembly." In the former, managers pick an existing manufacturing system here, a human resources and finance system there, and bring them together to serve the operation's needs. In the latter, bits and pieces of code... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

longer will access to incremental markets be the primary expansion driver; increasingly the drive must be to capture scarce sources of intellectual and human capital—strategic resources that can provide sustainable competitive advantage... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

across countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52239 2018 The Nature of Human Creativity Creativity and the Labor of Love By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—This book provides an overview of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

to post on the site any government data that does not have national security or privacy concerns. That's a lot of data. Anything that can be put online should be put online." Pros And Cons In class, participants who had read the case pointed to a wealth of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to rethink which factors made the difference between constructive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

Behavior and Human Decision Processes Abstract The present research investigated the dual role of cognition as either an enabler of moral reasoning or self-interested motivated reasoning for endorsing sweatshop labor. Experiment 1A showed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-067.pdf Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author: Hanna W. Halaburda Abstract This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided matching markets. It shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

expenditures on education per capita and led to higher literacy rates and to more schools per children. The resulting distribution of human capital across states persists until today. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1566887... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

hospitals and established reliability using interrater comparison. Using a factor analysis, we identified three themes of management competencies: management of unit culture, patient flow, and nursing. We constructed patient-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

A key understudied driver is social network utilization by academic researchers. In this paper, we examine how activating one’s social network can contribute to the impact of academic research and what factors lead researchers to utilize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

among adults around the world, and the warm glow of giving can be detected even in toddlers. These benefits are most likely to emerge when giving satisfies one or more core human needs (relatedness, competence, and autonomy). The rewards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

institutions, poor human capital development, geography, and culture are important but not sufficient. This is partly because recent research in business history has shown that several of the arguments are not empirically proved, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

strength is certainly important, many other factors influence where each party ends up. This article presents four factors that can have a tremendous impact on negotiation outcomes and provides guidance on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning By: Chalfin, Aaron, Oren... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

effects and consumers' discount factor of future applications. In addition, contrary to the popular belief that indirect network effects protect incumbents and are the source of market inefficiency, we find that under certain conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

from CEOs to frontline workers commits preventable mistakes-for example, underestimating how long it will take to finish a project or focusing too much on information that supports their current view. It is extraordinarily difficult to rewire the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

assets in order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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