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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
external sourcing may vary across situations. Our framework also proves useful for assessing the possible estimation biases in transaction level make-or-buy studies arising from ignoring complementarities View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
possibility and addressed the possible practice on its merits and demerits. As Shadreck Saili put it, " all other methods we use seem to be part of neuromanagement any method that can be used to refine... 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... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
undertaking. The data are all publicly available, and have been for decades; it was just a question of looking at the data in such a way as to test whether the structure of the Executive Board led to systematically View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Women don't have a problem developing an effective leadership style. What they do struggle with more than men, however, is claiming the authority to lead, according to Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. The gender gap in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
new apps and other products, offering feedback to help entrepreneurs refine their ideas. However, there’s a caveat to this feedback: 90 percent of users on Product Hunt are men, according to a recent working paper by a trio of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
concept of choice architecture, which is a piece of the behavioral puzzle. The idea is that you can help people to make better decisions by understanding systematic biases in judgment and decision-making... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
example, the media also project solutions: that companies should educate employees about biases and be held legally and reputationally responsible for treating men View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about affirmative action View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
to suggest that the discretionary nature of the peremptory challenge renders it precisely the type of judgment most likely to be biased by race. The need for additional psychological investigation of race View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
operations are optimistically biased consistent with the lure of investment banking and other ancillary fees, brokerages without investment banking activities are optimistically View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
point in time. Clarify and challenge the biases and business models in your firm and in your industry. Identify potential disruptors that could... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
over time. Two lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases due to differences in perceptions of expertise drive the effect. Our research contributes not only to operations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
We Are: A Temporal Explanation Authors:A.E. Tenbrunsel, K.A. Diekmann, K.A. Wade-Benzoni, and M.H. Bazerman Publication:In Research in Organizational Behavior, edited by B. M. Staw and Arthur P. Brief, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
often work directly with the companies they study. I then survey the factors that influence the quality of UGC. Quality is influenced by factors including promotional content, peer effects between contributors, biases of contributors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present three studies demonstrating that outcome information View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace