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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
healthcare is not high quality. Indeed, there is every possible quality problem you can imagine: incorrect diagnoses, drug errors, unnecessary complications, and failed treatments. Also, there are huge differences in quality across providers and across geography. For... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
examine attitudes towards two critical phases of conflict termination—a ceasefire and a peace agreement. We examine the rigidity/flexibility of refugees’ attitudes to see if subtle changes in how wartime losses are framed or in who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Communicating Frames in Negotiation Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Markus Noth Publication:." In The Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution, edited by Gary E. Bolton and Rachel T.A. Croson. Oxford University Press,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
hit-or-miss at most firms. Tackling the problem systematically, of course, will improve the odds of success. Traditional ways of framing this search examine competencies, customer needs, and shifts in the landscape. This article proposes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
insisting that no one's contribution be marginalized, and framing new information within familiar contexts, teams can escape the performance pressure paradox and keep doing their best work when it matters most. Book:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
paper seeks to alter the framing of this debate by asking, instead, "When does leadership matter?" We develop a "contingent opportunities" theory of leadership and empirically examine our predictions on a dataset of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
expertise. But senior managers also must rethink their role in shaping strategic direction. Their main contribution has shifted from deciding the strategic content to framing the organizational context. That means creating a sense of... View Details
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
items didn’t seem to act as competing alternatives to the buyer. Instead, a cohesive display provided a general frame for the decision, keeping the buyer fixated on the question of whether to buy something in that product category. More... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
as CEO of GE, arguably the biggest and most complex corporate leadership job in the world, and how he frames and implements his priorities for GE. Describes the processes that guided Immelt's own developments and the strategic changes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-005.pdf A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna Abstract This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possible in the work world. For the individual women who are thinking about professional re-entry, it's often hard to break the frame of "what is now" to think about "what could be," Hart says. For example, a marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
get for their money. Price framing can be used as a tool to induce consumers to acknowledge additional points of differentiation. Partitioning a price in the hope that consumers will be fooled and overlook small fees will backfire. View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
equity in their own companies. Bias, underrepresentation, and work-family conflict Analysis of the articles published over nearly two decades in the US business press gave the authors an opportunity to trace shifts in the media's framing... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
the survey in Korean, demonstrating how cultural frames influence the contents of gender stereotypes. In Study 3, American college students rated a male student as higher on whichever trait—ambitiousness or sociability—they were told was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
in November for a constituent assembly to frame a new constitution. Q: What else do you plan to study? A: I can think of two related research questions: the first is how to end conflict. What's the stage at which peace agreements might... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
under-invest in the new technology. The second suggests that incumbent firms develop organizational capabilities and cognitive frames that make them slow to "see" new opportunities and that make it difficult to respond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
devoid of objective improvement—when revisions are trivial (Study 3A), incidental (Study 3B), non-existent (Study 3C), and even objectively worse than the original (Study 3D). Study 4 directly tests the self-fulfilling nature of the revision bias, testing whether mere... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
men as less collectivistic than women, whereas those who completed the survey in Korean about Korean targets did not, demonstrating how cultural frames influence gender stereotype content. Study 4 established generalizability by... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
expand on how firms can break free from the grip of what he refers to as the Devil's Triangle. Sean Silverthorne: Describe the Devil's Triangle and how it can hinder a firm's ability to grow. Frank Cespedes: We use this as a metaphor for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne