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- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
helps bridge the gap between people's moral values and their actual behavior. Combined, the REVISE framework guides the design of policy interventions to defeat dishonesty. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
studies, including a field study and a four-week-long intervention study, we find that lengthy morning commutes are more aversive for employees with lower trait self-control and greater work-family conflict, leading to decreased job... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
reducing social costs requires the intervention of a centralized institution. Surprisingly little work has considered what happens in between—when transaction costs exist but recourse to hierarchical institution is barred. This paper uses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
Sakis, Shalini Rao, Daniela Saltzman, and George Serafeim Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50239 December 2015 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology Time-Driven... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
and pairs researching similar clinical areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system. At the same time, even a brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
avoid information about their relative ability. August 2013 NBER Volume on African Economic Successes Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative By: Ashraf, Nava,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
talking about is very real, very doable. Roca, a Boston-based organization that reaches out to disengaged, high-risk youth, has undergone a fundamental shift in its culture thanks to the leadership of its executive director, Molly Baldwin. In addition, it has moved to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
non-CEO executives in banks with materialistic CEOs insider trade more aggressively around government intervention during the financial crisis. Finally, we find that banks with materialistic CEOs have significantly more downside tail risk... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
selected the market and the product and stayed focused on both. If you get that right, you can get a lot of other things wrong and still succeed. Spar: RCA wasn't a company that grew the way IBM did. Instead, it was put together in 1919 with a lot of active View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
patterns with the calorie labeling present. These findings highlight the potential importance of portion control interventions that specifically activate consumers' self-control. Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016
neglecting information about the original intentions leading to those outcomes. In four experiments, we examine interventions aimed at reducing the outcome bias. Contrary to our initial predictions, individuals weighed others' outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
major role in propelling growth. But there were two key differences. First, the scale of Chinese currency intervention was without precedent, as were the resulting distortions of the world economy. Second, the Chinese have so far resisted... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
to financial results, to behave according to the organization’s long term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives but, on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
to believe they are high ability update on entirely uninformative signals. When we remove self-serving motives, agents appear completely (or much more) rational. Biases due to motivated errors survive standard debiasing interventions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
intervention are quick to point out that more than two decades of well-meaning attempts to constrain ever-soaring corporate pay and to reform governance through legislation, regulation, and shareholder pressure have, for the most part,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
had to assess whether it was time to sound the alarm, and whether drastic and immediate measures were needed to right the innovation economy ship. Bibi mulled over which policies or interventions would best curb the erosion of Israel’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
paid forward in kind, greed was paid forward more than generosity. This asymmetry was driven by negative affect, such that a positive affect intervention disrupted the tendency to pay greed forward. Implications for models of generalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
within-firm processes. By doing so, we may be overstating what progress has been made on employment integration and ignoring other avenues of intervention that may give greater leverage for further integrating firms. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
time, we align these cases with a rigorous theoretical framework that clarifies the circumstances under which government intervention in the market can improve outcomes. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne