Duke University - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

discipline and intimidation, which some critics say goes too far. Knight was fired from a long career at Indiana University for grabbing a student, and prior to that he was filmed clutching one of his own players by the neck. And then... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

they’re more likely to be investing in capital. So, it would increase returns, but those returns are going to the capital owners.” “Compensation and income inequality are very relevant to managers” In the paper Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality, Rouen and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

2018, Averaging Probability Forecasts: Back to the Future. Grushka-Cockayne, on loan from University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, joined with Darden colleague Casey. Lichtendahl; Bob Winkler of View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. He partnered on the research with HBS doctoral student Kala Viswanathan and Duke University professor Matthew Johnson. Widespread adoption, but... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

functioning of the team. Together with Leigh Plunkett Tost of the University of Michigan and Richard P. Larrick of Duke University, Gino explores this question in When Power Makes Others Speechless: The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

message has been received? How will you know if you are getting all the relevant information you need? What has and has not worked in your communication strategies thus far? Draw a literal picture. Everyone is overwhelmed with text. Visual aids can be extraordinarily... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

You,” in which Nicholas Kristof wrote, “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” Or the 2015 Chronicle of Higher... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

grow at a rate to maintain its leadership among Chinese entrepreneurial cities? And would the founding of an international, joint-venture campus with Duke and Wuhan University keep the city of Kunshan... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

07 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

much evidence for that,” says coauthor Robert S. Kaplan, senior fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. The research, conducted at Duke University... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

think about which college to attend,” Luca says. Rolling Stone has been responsible for three long-form articles about campus scandals in the past decade, including the Dartmouth incident; a 2006 case at Duke View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

experiments, are published in a new paper, When to Sign on the Dotted Line? Signing First Makes Ethics Salient and Decreases Dishonest Self-Reports, written by Lisa L. Shu, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman of Harvard Business School, Nina Mazar of the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Tost of the University of Washington, Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School, and Richard P. Larrick of Duke University. Key concepts include: Members of teams with high-power leaders are likely to keep... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?

in 2021. Wen and Iyoha coauthored the paper with Duke University Professor Edmund J. Malesky; Sung-Ju Wu, a research fellow at the University of Nottingham in the UK; and Bo... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua; Manufacturing; Shipping

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Schulman of Duke University hosting the next event. "We also need to take it abroad to a not-very-big European country, China, South America, Africa; to make sure that this conference, in how it is held and... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

at Harvard Business School, who wrote the article with Dan Ariely of Duke University. "But is creativity always good? We often hear of cases in which people use innovative behavior to create a sense that what they're doing is not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

23 Feb 2016
First Look

February 23, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50571 February 2016 Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract— We develop a model... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

began to appear in the 1990s, with French historian Laurence Fontaine's Histoire du colportage en Europe: XVe-XIXe siècle, a work translated into English and published by Duke University Press as History of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

Behavior and Impact of Patent Trolls: A Survey By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We survey the empirical literature on non-practicing entity (NPE) litigation behavior and its consequences. We document both... View Details