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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Shiv, and Rebecca M.C. Spencer Abstract—Conventional wisdom and studies of unconscious processing suggest that sleeping on a choice may improve decision making. Though sleep has been shown to benefit several cognitive tasks, including View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
home after a nearly 16-hour meeting. He was grappling with whether to take the global sales and marketing team manager position that had been offered to him and had spent the entire day with the senior leadership of his potential new team. He wanted to understand the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
about leaders when leaders do four things: (i) Explicitly acknowledge the tension among multiple aims. Sometimes values bump up against one another—consider the cases in which leaders need to manage tradeoffs between maximizing profits... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
quick to speak and more inclined to listen. In many ways, I'm more confident about grasping situations but also a lot more aware of my own limitations. I've learned to multitask and compartmentalize, to leave work at the office, to put a View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
Can you describe how turf wars influence hospital decisions to buy new technology? Have you seen similar turf war issues in other industries? A: Hospitals are characterized by the presence of multiple groups of highly trained specialists,... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
use people analytics to improve how people work. These badges, and the multiple sensors inside of them, allow careful tracking of interactions in the workplace. Ben was kind enough to partner with us to help us measure, carefully and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20dunn%20norton.pdf Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game Authors:Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer Publication:B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (forthcoming) Abstract In variants of the Electronic Mail Game... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
follow. "If you want to put resources toward helping the local community—fix the housing problem or whatever it might be— [stakeholders] might look at you and say, 'What do you mean? Where's the bottom line in that?' " said retired United... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
we should be asking the question, as like it or not our approach in leadership and problem solving are different." Respondents were pretty well split down the middle on the question, although there was apparently little doubt in Judy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications than the number that maximizes joint utility); (ii) an equilibrium selection View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and creating an audience for the auction to make winners and losers visible, might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever. Individuals should be wary of the consequences... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
proven business tactic. For every newsworthy instance of a corporation putting profit ahead of social good, there are multiple unheralded examples of companies using social good-oriented initiatives to expand their markets or enhance... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
important for any company doing business in multiple countries. While it is simplistic to suggest that there is no country effect at play in determining the success of companies—Deshpandé and Farley do not make that contention—their work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
decades ago—hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's job. The problem lies not in what strategists are trained to do: Porter's perspective is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Management Journal Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee-Customer Interactions By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Nancy Rothbard, and Steffanie Wilk Abstract—Across View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
is revealed to students so the unfolding of events keeps students interested and engaged in how to solve the various problems that arise, including a near mutiny. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
"This is not simply a liquidity crisis or simply a problem of a messed-up financial system," said Merton. Standard financial models remove some of the mystery about what has happened and make the financial crisis comprehensible,... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Authors:Jakub Wojciech Jurek and Luis M. Viceira Revised Working Paper Author's Abstract We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
The first group is more likely to resort to competition and problem solving in the negotiation, while the second prefers more indirect means of arriving at a solution. Less research attention to date has addressed three other important... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
of moral problems that are very stressful to deal with. It needs mutual learning. It needs multiple perspectives. There's a third reason that popped up in the 90s: globalization. There now is an awareness... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace