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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
research and technological innovation, this approach is misguided and potentially risky. This article argues that researchers need to pay close attention to issues such as biases in data collection and spurious correlation. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Participation - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Assessment & Feedback Sample Class Students and instructors are co-creators of class participation, and the stakes may be quite high, not only for collective and individual learning, but also for performance evaluation. (For example, at... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
significantly by one to two quarters. Using a two-period theoretical model of an ESG-aware investor, I highlight biases retail investors should caution against and provide insights into how public perception influences portfolio... View Details
- 16 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision
options, which is in their long-term best interest to do? For the first project we obtained access (with the help of HBS professor Anita Elberse) to a data set containing information about the film rental and return behaviors of a sample... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
required to pay an administrative fee (the Industrial Funding Fee), which is based on a fraction of their self-reported sales. To encourage more accurate self-reporting, the GSA moved the required signature box from the bottom to the top of the online payment form for... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge, realized dreams. “A big weakness of the existing qualitative... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
met several hundred of my classmates and discovered something unexpected: The proportion that had run marathons or climbed Kilimanjaro was statistically improbable within a random sampling of people. These Herculean feats of endurance... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
options across thirteen studies involving diverse samples (executives, law/business/medical students, adults) and contexts (public policy, business, medicine). These distortions appear to primarily reflect decision View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
object, or in addressing a situation under examination. To "thin slice" is to be able to decide quickly based on, among other things, a small sample of information and the suppression of subtle and slowly-developed biases. In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
shortcuts and heuristics, and therefore they're susceptible to biases and mistakes. The implication is that if maybe they thought more, they'd do better. "And then there's this whole stream of research about ways in which you should... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
and negative economic growth are experienced, with losses having more than twice as much impact on individual happiness as compared to equivalent gains. We use Gallup World Poll data drawn from 151 countries, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
you’re sampling from a biased set, even if you have a thousand, a million, ten million samples, your sample is still going to be biased. There’s no amount that you can use to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
by managers facing intertemporal decisions. We assess the association between different types of performance measures and the time horizon of business unit managers who have profit responsibility. Our results, based on a sample of 105... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
less-than-proportional votes as shareholdings increase), balanced the relative voting power of small and large investors. In companies with such provisions the concentration of ownership and control is shown to have been significantly lower than in the average company.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
have a better chance of making it to the executive level than slower-moving colleagues. Although the data examined in Thomas and Gabarro's samples show that this model holds true for whites, it didn't work at all for people of color. Why?... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
our sample alone. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51757 September 30, 2016 Arthroplasty Today Variation in the Cost of Care for Primary Total Knee Arthroplasties By: Haas, Derek A., and Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
arrangements, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio-economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and income inequality in 37... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Social Psychology Bulletin The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness By: Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Two samples of more than 4,000... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
cheating at 13 percent. None of the colleges saw more than four scandals during the sample period, yet 76 percent experienced at least one scandal during that time. Many of these scandals received little media attention, and in those... View Details