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  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell? Improving Agent View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

Involvement in Process Improvement Author:Anita L. Tucker Abstract Managers play a critical role in process improvement. However, research has found that many improvement efforts fail due to insufficient management involvement. Less is known, however, about View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Brexit is Not Better for Britain Britain rarely has referendums, and for good reason. They call for binary decisions on complex issues, and voters have all sorts of reasons for voting one way or another. It is unprecedented that British... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

performance? A: For managers, it is imperative to understand that stars are not self-contained silos. Producing top-quality knowledge work requires collaboration and flows of information among a network of top performers. That means any one View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Tried and Tested

first-order importance. The second part is whether I have a clever way of studying it. Can I design an experiment to isolate exactly what I think the causal mechanism is? It’s not just that A happens and then B happens, but can I actually... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

rates to monetary shocks appears to reflect changes in term premia. One mechanism that may generate such variation in term premia is based on demand effects due to the existence of what we call "yield-oriented" investors. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L Milkman Abstract We develop an integrated theory of the social identity mechanisms linking workgroup sex and race composition across levels with individual turnover. Building on social identity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

Inner Angels and Demons: What We Have Learned About Want/Should Conflicts and How That Knowledge Can Help Us Reduce Short-Sighted Decision Making Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Although observers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

also accounts reasonably well for the large gyration in stock prices over this period. Finally, the endogenous adoption mechanism plays a significant role in amplifying other shocks. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

When information is asymmetric (the quality of a potential partner is known only to himself), it may seem that partner choice is not possible without signaling. Many mutualisms, however, exist without signaling, and the mechanisms by... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

securitization of other asset classes because securitized loans are fractions of syndicated loans. Therefore, mechanisms used to align incentives in a lending syndicate are likely to reduce adverse selection in the choice of CLO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign-to-sovereign transactions. Specifically, we show (i) international capital flows net of government debt are positively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

Publisher's Link: http://hbr.org/product/seven-strategy-questions-a-simple-approach-for-bet/an/14832-HBK-ENG Competing against Online Sharing Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane Publication:Management Decision 48, no.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

Corporation, must decide whether to push JAL group, Japan's largest airline, into bankruptcy or to act as a sponsor in an out-of-court restructuring. The bankruptcy of JAL would be the largest ever for an industrial firm in Japan's history. The case introduces the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

firm's decision to emphasize a particular strategic orientation can depend on its competitors' orientation choices. Based on two studies of customer, technology, and production orientations, we show that the emphasis a firm places on a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

decision concerns the variety and heterogeneity of languages in their product range. Should a firm propose a single product language to communicate a precise identity, or should it explore different product languages? Of course, the two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision making on the part of those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

a diverse body of stakeholders and incorporate their interests and ideas. However, this also introduces many new challenges. The author identifies key properties that such networking mechanisms must satisfy if they are to succeed. He... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

their regular offerings. One of the benefits of developing Wingspanbank outside Bank One was the ability to start from scratch (a fact that Wingspanbank's advertising campaign tapped). "Sometimes a new technology is so disruptive that the normal organization View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

psychology of decision making, rather than voters' willingness to compromise and support a bill they weakly oppose when that bill is bundled with one they strongly support. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf  ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace