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- 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26
percentage increase in nurses' perceptions of safety improvement were no better than that of 48 control hospitals. Thus, we investigated drivers of successful program implementation within the set of treatment hospitals. We found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
insider stock purchases are significantly greater after SOX than before. Abnormal trading volumes around filings of insider sales are also greater post-SOX on average, but stock returns are not more negative. However, once controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
presence among firms with poor ratings. This tends to obscure our first finding, and when we control for this, the effect of competition is, if anything, larger. Q: People often assume that competition leads to better products and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
entrepreneurialism to preserve a community logic of banking and maintain local control banking infrastructures. We discuss how our study contributes to the emerging synthesis of ecological and institutional perspectives, entrepreneurship,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
context in which they operate; to determine which CSR initiatives they should address; and to find the most effective ways of doing so. Perceiving social responsibility as an opportunity rather than as damage control or a PR campaign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
with the conditioned odor, participants were found to be (i) more creative and (ii) better able to select their most creative idea than participants who had been exposed to a control odor or no odor while sleeping. These findings suggest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
multi-brand retail format in the beauty and wellness space, and the fact that she was doing it with her daughter Adwaita (HBS MBA 2013) made it both exciting and meaningful. Still, she was the founder and with that came control over the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
college, this lower potential to later enter the US workforce weighed heavily on the minds of potential student migrants. Due to some policy quirks, some nationalities were de facto exempt from H-1B visa restrictions and thus could form a View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
asking when the set of strategic decisions are exactly the decisions a CEO should control to give effective guidance. It finally shows how a CEO's vision, in the sense of a strong belief, about strategic decisions makes it more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
make bad decisions? Using both field and quantitative data from the MGM-Mirage Group, this paper discusses how management controls affect the learning rates of lower-level employees. Research, focusing on hotel casino hosts, was conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and creativity exist in the job itself. The second is through understanding the role and value of the job within the organization. This understanding can transform even mundane jobs. The many unknowns of the pandemic mean that people’s overall need for comprehension... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and creativity exist in the job itself. The second is through understanding the role and value of the job within the organization. This understanding can transform even mundane jobs. The many unknowns of the pandemic mean that people’s overall need for comprehension... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
everything at once. You don't try to take on the teacher's unions; you don't try to have IBM control it. You're reducing the amount of resistance it's going to get, which is always a brilliant change principle. People think if you're... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A postelectoral survey reveals that immigrants initially had less political information, which could explain the heterogeneous impact. Although the effect decays over subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
Now, consumers learn about a product in different ways—receive directly from the firm through traditional or digital advertising, seek out information themselves through search, or learn from other consumers and social media. Many of these things are out of View Details
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
future research. Specifically, I call for research on the materiality of environmental and social issues for the future financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
employee morale. Internally initiated bribery from senior management is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by the control systems of the firm is less likely to be associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
had increased access to location data, potentially threatening to enter the real-time traffic information (RTTI) space. Current competitors Navteq and Tele Atlas were also looking to grow through global expansion. Mistele also knew that the VC firms that held View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
on the 45 weekly SKUs went from 98.24 percent to 99.96 percent. Sales for the 45 SKUs increased by 32 percent, even while sales for the control SKUs fell by 10 percent. Why did sales rise by 32 percent rather than 1.72 percent, the... View Details