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- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
but they offer corporate leaders a starting point for a careful due diligence and action plan around new ventures. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53110 Investors as Stewards of the Commons? By: Serafeim,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
know how to value their own information," John says. "Because of this uncertainty about what the value of privacy is, people don't know when to value their information or how to care about it. And as a consequence, when people are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
psychological mechanism whereby price format determines how many product attributes are actively processed at the time of valuation. Three studies support the hypothesis that price partitioning acts as an incentive to process multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4 demonstrates that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
those who care about the renewed, continued competitiveness of the United States," he told attendees who gathered recently at the national summit held at HBS, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
with a discussion of task shifting’s potential to improve access to affordable tertiary care in resource-constrained settings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49780... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
certain securities, engaged in irresponsible investment behavior, and offered privileges to insiders not afforded to ordinary investors. During the famous "Hundred Day" congressional session that began his presidency, Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
reported feeling, to such an extent that receivers viewed regifting as similar in offensiveness to throwing gifts away (whereas givers clearly preferred the former). This asymmetry in emotional reactions to regifting was driven by an asymmetry in beliefs about... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
types of NPEs. Survey evidence illustrates a number of ways in which NPEs can potentially act opportunistically and indicates at least some instances and consequences of observed NPE opportunism. Large-sample empirical work has recently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
presents us with cause and effect, with action and result, and through the characters' stories we can learn about the dangers, or rewards, of acting in certain ways. “Firms should be looking for some kind of reliable method for leaders to... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
pre-paid vouchers to an online subscriber base-has by all accounts been spectacular. Our evaluation of daily deals is a cautionary tale for merchants: a substantial percentage are unlikely to benefit, and might well lose money, by using this type of campaign. But a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
terms of time and convenience, than a close-in building just a block from the station. Suddenly the outlying land is as valuable as the close-in land, and the developer can afford to pay for PRT with private funds. It's an exciting... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This highly readable and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55802 forthcoming Journal of Medical Economics Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions ensure that there is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
risk changing its business model or proceed with confidence? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-070 Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
instructor, and later as a strategist for the Pentagon: O: Observe O: Orientate D: Decide A: Act Boyd's insight came from the need to develop a strategic approach—simple in nature, easy to execute and communicate—that made up for the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
rigidity, unthinking application of age-old rules (vs.) careful reflective thought on matters that need intelligent application of criteria." Just how to promote slow thinking where it is appropriate stimulated an interesting and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett