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- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
which she interviewed women at several law firms, noting both positive and negative interactions among peers and supervisors. In terms of positivity versus negativity, the consistent mediating factor was whether the women considered their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
research agenda for the future." But the choice to study South Korea first was methodical. The researchers deliberately sought out a country in which the decision to hire a woman would be truly opportunistic-one where there was little to no View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
investing" by creating a new asset class for investors who care about social impact. Doing so will require working with competitors in the field in order to establish benchmarks and standards of measurement. How can Acumen build industry-wide benchmarks when View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
inventions as the top 1% of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
peers didn't respect him. His lack of leadership ability was masked by his good speaking skills. So I hope our article will cause every reader to go back to their companies and teams and say, "We're a global company, or a globalizing... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group. At the end of each grading period, my mom would ask me if I had made the honor... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
private-sector innovations. Second, we take advantage of idiosyncratic rigidities in the rules governing NIH peer review to generate exogenous variation in funding across research areas. Our results show that NIH funding spurs the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
five-and-a-half seasons. Many of the coaches in this group achieved some success and remained in their positions for multiple seasons. However, on average, they experienced declines in performance in the second halves of their tenures, and none lasted for six full... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
comparison to its peer institutions, the World Bank has been relatively responsive to calls for greater accountability. This report examines accountability mechanisms at three basic levels in the institution: (1) project, (2) policy, and... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
targets. The construct validity of the ratings was partly supported because there were positive associations between individuals' peer-rated creativity and their extraversion and between individuals' self-rated and supervisor-rated creativity and their openness to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
course, cut costs and conserve capital. Dozens of VC blogs over the past few months have already offered this advice. VCs face a more difficult decision if they expect an industrywide threat-rigidity response: When most peers are cautious... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
apart when they are unable to win support from peers and subordinates. All leaders are human, subject to frailties and mistakes, but inauthentic leaders lare often are afraid to face their failures and may try to hide them or blame... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their single-segment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
information on peer health behaviors can have perverse effects on one's health behavior." Their paper "Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health" will be published later this year. View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
an overview of the literature on both areas, and identifies opportunities for creating more effective and useful research. By Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman. 2. Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship How do your coworkers affect your... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
fixture from one sheet of metal and his peers respect his craftsmanship, then he has nothing to be ashamed of; quite the contrary. Moreover, a gradual shift towards computer-aided design made these craftsmen less relevant to the design... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
sustained, recipients will flee these threats or otherwise reshape their network to attenuate the negative psychological effects of the threat. Analyzing four years of peer feedback and social network data from an agribusiness company in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
competitiveness fundamentals to productivity and prosperity outcomes. On these indicators Sweden is compared to a peer group of other advanced EU and OECD countries. The Scorecard finds Sweden's competitiveness to be solid overall,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne