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  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

formation, however, teams with a high average level of relationship orientation performed better than teams with a low average level of relationship orientation. Furthermore, a moderate degree of variance in relationship orientation among team members produced better... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

staff in advance via email at histcollref@hbs.edu or by phone at 617-495-6411. Please review the Information and Services section of the Historical Collections website for more information on preparing for a visit to the reading room.... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

and its implied elasticities are in the ballpark of a range of micro estimates. We find industrial policy subsidizing either the R&D or the continued operation of incumbents reduces growth and welfare. For example, a subsidy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

buildings to be more livable and environmentally sustainable, and incorporate low- or no-carbon emitting public transportation systems. Yet while mayors often have greater legislative freedom to shape local energy use and building... View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Milan in the late 1700s to recover the Academy’s ideas and the policies they informed. At the core of their preoccupations lay the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare in an era when the three were becoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that raises new debt must have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2017
  • News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

identify risks and issues, and develop the business case. The two-month recruiting process for the first cohort included reaching out to organizations such as Autism South Australia, targeting verbal individuals age 20 to 30, either with some View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 21 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

she crosses over to work in the new “parallel” or art cinema, those films challenge those views. Deshpandé: Very few crossover actors are successful; there is a big divide between the two. She is probably the most successful. She gets to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

Trumbull, that unfettered marketplace has "virtually disappeared." "Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries—not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient—enjoys a more thorough set of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

behave dishonestly (Study 1), and this relationship was mediated by impaired moral awareness (Study 2). Unlike individuals with moderate or low moral identity, individuals high in moral identity did not cheat more when they were depleted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

into focus. And the constant search . . . for men of ability to fill positions of responsibility, assures him of recognition when he is ready for advancement.” 31 The publication featured photographs of men engaged or receiving training... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

accountability at the project and policy levels, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But they have been much less successful in changing staff incentives for accountability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

piping. Standard welfare economics teaches us that either subsidies or Pigouvian fines can solve that problem, but both solutions are problematic when institutions are weak. Subsidies lead to waste and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

companies tend to look out for the welfare of their employees in such an effective fashion. The impact of this at the national level can be seen from the Japanese people's response to previous crises, including the earthquake in Kobe in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

evidence that the decline in performance outcomes stems from reduced effort or increased risk taking. Instead, errors in logic lead to a decline in performance, which suggests a cognitive explanation for the negative response to increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

White stay-at-home mothers are idealized, while black stay-at-home mothers are stereotyped as lazy welfare exploiters, because unlike white mothers, society expects black mothers to work. In one experiment Cuddy described, participants... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

  Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic complements View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Commencement 2011 Address | About

easy to feel secure about your character. We all know it is wrong, for example, to lie, cheat, steal, or break the law. Yet I trust you have learned — through courses like LCA and through scenarios like the scandals you read about in the... View Details