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  • November 9, 2019
  • Article

Effect of Revealing Authors' Conflicts of Interests in Peer Review: Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder and Michael Callaham
Objective: To assess the impact of disclosing authors’ conflict of interest declarations to peer reviewers at a medical journal.
Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting: The study was conducted within the manuscript review process at the... View Details
Keywords: Conflicts Of Interest; Peer Review; Randomized Controlled Trial; Scientific Publication; Conflict of Interests; Journals and Magazines; Science
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  • 2023
  • Article

Estimating Causal Peer Influence in Homophilous Social Networks by Inferring Latent Locations.

By: Edward McFowland III and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Social influence cannot be identified from purely observational data on social networks, because such influence is generically confounded with latent homophily, that is, with a node’s network partners being informative about the node’s attributes and therefore its... View Details
Keywords: Causal Inference; Homophily; Social Networks; Peer Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Power and Influence; Mathematical Methods
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  • 24 Jun 2014
  • Video

The Power of Peers

  • 28 Feb 2012
  • News

The Year of the Peer Advisory Group

    Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

    This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division manager compensation following a 1991-1992 controversy over executive pay. We argue that this... View Details

    • April 2019 (Revised January 2025)
    • Case

    Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects

    By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull
    The importance of a good peer or coworker is widely discussed, but understanding the glue that makes coworkers valuable is less understood. This case sheds light on the importance of peers and the practices and environments that make a group greater than the sum of its... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Interactive Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Training; Design; Compensation and Benefits; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Performance Improvement; Research; Sales; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Telecommunications Industry; Utah; United States
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    • 20 Nov 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

    Keywords: by Claudine Gartenberg & Julie Wulf
    • 16 Nov 2012
    • News

    Does Peer Pressure Encourage Saving?

    • 22 Jan 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Separating Homophily and Peer Influence with Latent Space

    Keywords: by Joseph P. Davin, Sunil Gupta & Mikołaj Jan Piskorski
    • 22 Feb 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Incentives, Peer Pressure, and Behavior Persistence

    Keywords: by Susanna Gallani; Health
    • Article

    The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Katherine L. Milkman
    Using a field experiment in a 401(k) plan, we measure the effect of disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement
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    • 08 Oct 2013
    • News

    Younger Americans Fare Poorly on Skills Against International Peers

    • 21 Nov 2017
    • News

    Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

    Justin Dawe (MBA 2007), president, Scoot Networks (photo courtesy of Scoot Networks) What do you think the state of the energy industry will be in 2030? HBS students in the Energy and Environment Club asked alumni working in the field to answer that question during two... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power
    • 25 Jan 2010
    • News

    How Peer Pressure Can Help You Save

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    An Evaluation of Compensation Benchmarking Peer Groups Based on Mutual Peer-Designating Behaviors

    By: Jee Eun Shin
    In this paper, I argue that firms mutually recognizing each other as compensation benchmarking peers constitute viable competitors in the same CEO labor market, and that non-mutual peer relationships can serve as a tool to evaluate firms’ executive compensation... View Details
    Keywords: Executive Compensation
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    • 17 Aug 2018
    • News

    How your peers can help your start-up

    • Video

    CLIMB - Our Difference - Peer Learning

    • 27 Jul 2022
    • News

    Navigating Peer Relationships While Climbing the Ladder

    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    The Effect of a System for Sharing Best Practices Within Pre-existing Peer Networks

    By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
    Peer networks, such as enterprise social networks (ESNs), can facilitate knowledge transfer across employees. However, such systems can also lead to information overload or difficulty in finding useful information. We examine data from a natural field experiment where... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Best Practices; Enterprise Social Media; Management Accounting And Control Systems; Social and Collaborative Networks; Communication Technology; Knowledge Sharing; Sales; Social Media; Retail Industry
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    • 16 Sep 2018
    • News

    Wise leaders understand the power of peer pressure