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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
new debt, we interpret firm's switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from loans to bonds at times characterized by tight lending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55599 forthcoming International Journal of Human Resource Management Improving Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Workplace Distress By: Williams, Allison L., Acacia... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
needed for patient care. We found that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments' routines was a major source of operational failures. The low levels of interconnectedness occurred because of how the internal supply chains were designed and managed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
"bottom-up" forces highlighted in these models and instead reflects more "top-down" interventions. We conclude with a discussion of some of the historical evidence on top-down interventions. Economic Catastrophe Bonds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
also tended to have higher rates of corruption. Tips and bribes can possess striking similarities that may lead to their positive association, the researchers report. "In a sense, both are gifts intended to strengthen social bonds... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022
even in a job you don't love. 9. Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together Rituals—even seemingly silly ones—help employees bond and add meaning to their work, says research by Michael Norton,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
of an estimated secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock and bond returns since the late 1990s. Increased correlations of inflation shocks are also an important source of the shift in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
in this primary group have interlocking tasks, their bonds of trust will facilitate their joint task performance and they can be officially recognized as a work group or team. The more extended bonding drive... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
such joins do and do not increase welfare. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1535448 Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks By: Campbell, John Y., Carolin E. Pflueger, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract—The exposure of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
this book undertook major restructurings without being in a financial crisis. Compared to the rest of the U.S. airline industry, United Air Lines was in relatively strong financial condition when its employees agreed to almost $5 billion... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
person in need, which, in turn, increased intentions to help. Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis Authors:Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Annual Review of Financial Economics 3 (December 2011)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
reported infections. By mid-March, Carnival, the largest cruise line in the world, suspended operations across the globe. Yet it took weeks to get its 260,000 guests and 80,000 employees who were floating at sea back to their homes in... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
acts that may seem mundane, like making coffee every morning for a spouse, often come with a strong emotional backdrop, boosting the bond between couples, say the coauthors, Harvard Professor Michael I. Norton, HBS doctoral candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan between 2006 and 2010, we find no evidence that total 401(k) contribution rates differ between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
decomposes excess return predictability in U.S. and U.K. inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds. We find that nominal bonds reflect time-varying inflation and real rate risk premia, while inflation-indexed View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
technologies to help companies increase employee happiness. Hitachi had begun manufacturing high-tech badges that quantify a wearer’s activity patterns. Data from these devices revealed an unusually high correlation between certain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
performance builds off that solid foundation.” Look at wider team-building Managers may want to build on the main finding: going through rigorous training together forms bonds that benefit the patient—or the customer—by fostering mutual... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel