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- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
abstained. Switchers vote for the third candidate even when she is very unlikely to win. This disproportionately harms the candidate ideologically closest to her and causes his defeat in one fifth of the races. These results suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
ultimately harm shareholders, and the role boards of directors play in making sure their companies stay within the rules. Ann Cullen: How has the way corporations view taxation changed? Mihir A. Desai: There is growing evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
stated goal was to provide tobacco smokers with a less harmful e-cigarette alternative, JUUL Labs’s products had proven widely popular with teenage high school students who had never smoked. Some advocacy groups and public policy makers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
enlightened economists—and illustrates the extent to which each tribe has been captured by the concept of self-interest. After arguing that this fixation has caused—and is likely to continue to cause—significant harm to our economy, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
“lean-in" and negotiate more. In an environment where women who negotiate achieve positive returns, we find that negotiating more is costly: women appear to know when to ask. Relative to women, men enter negotiations more often and experience less financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
queries or comments, that person is more likely to keep asking questions and contributing ideas. “If I ask for your help and you kindly give it to me, you didn’t harm my psychological safety one bit,” Edmondson says. On the other hand, if... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Workers By: Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor Abstract—While there has been a lot of research on finding and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers who are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Abstract—This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for mistakes that caused View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
crucial to the subsequent response of those on the receiving end. "We define a necessary evil as a work-related task that requires a person to cause physical, emotional, or material harm to another human being in order to advance a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
more coordinated regulatory approach to oversight of financial services. Industry should be included and at the table to ensure that they have a consistent mechanism to provide feedback and advice on how any new regulation will hurt or View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
Threat: Responses to and the Consequences of Threats to Individuals' Identities Authors:Jennifer L. Petriglieri Publication:The Academy of Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract I review and reconceptualize identity threat, defining it as an experience appraised as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
pro quo deals between agents and third parties, and to suggest how legal and institutional reforms might curb harms and enhance benefits. In this comprehensive Handbook, top scholars in the field provide specially commissioned essays,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
novel experimental design. In line with predictions, we find that information on the popularity of policy choices is beneficial when a minority of voters is biased but harmful when a majority is biased. In theory, information on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
represent only one component of wartime harm, they nevertheless have profound effects. Specifically, civilians who lose a home to barrel bombing are more likely to see the Assad regime as a greater threat to themselves personally and to the whole of Syria. Such View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
values—of finding unique personal meanings—that employees find inspiration. (iii) Proactively "give sense" around actions that could be seen as values-threatening. When another person takes an action that harms us, we tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
of development projects, but empirical research shows that some projects deviate from strict mirroring, seemingly without harmful effects. In this paper, we formally define the mirroring hypothesis, describe its theoretical underpinnings,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
problem of filling empty seats and recruiting new customers in a way that did not harm other forms of ticket sales. ScoreBig has raised over $20 million in three rounds of financing. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
evils," tasks that entail doing harm in order to advance a worthy purpose. These tasks are among the most significant and the most unsettling managers must handle, especially in an era of economic transformation. Third, I am... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. I examine the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the economic underpinnings to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
pharmaceutical division and a diagnostic division. The company's antiviral drug Tamiflu dominates the market for prevention and treatment of seasonal influenza (flu). Tamiflu, however, could also play an important role in responding to the first wave of a pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace