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- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
organizational structure has become the norm in several industries, it has received little attention from academics and consultants. Garvin and Levesque set out to fill that gap in management thinking with their research. The authors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
the concept of sustainability itself. It appears that overcoming these roadblocks will require systematic interventions and alternative normative concepts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55541 The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
$60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans, an amount that rises in years when IBRD loans are in high demand, particularly for countries in the most influential seats. This effect is more likely driven by informal rules and norms in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
but all of these interact with one another and with legal and normative constraints and enablers in society. And so for the first two—bias and underrepresentation—the problem and solution, although not simple and not fully resolved, were... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
information spillovers and mitigate the default contagion. Collectively, these results provide new evidence on the strategic interactions between a firm and its customers in a dynamic information environment. Download working paper:... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
scholarly, detached and dispassionate judgment. Without such a commitment, academics and the subjects they teach are in danger of being discredited. It is far too easy to enumerate flaws in the current state of leadership education: course content rarely conforms to... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
frame, is the perfect example. Every process, every incentive, every cultural norm was optimized to deliver efficiently, bypassing the retail channel. When the strategy changed, the organization simply did not follow. Execution continued... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
dynamic, hypercompetitive world. But many have been forced to face the grim reality that the decades ahead will demand even more radical change. As disruptive technologies, business models, regulatory environments, and societal norms... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
that this deterrence effect is stronger for smaller companies and in institutional contexts featuring stronger activist pressures and stronger norms of corporate transparency. Examining the decisions of 2,043 firms headquartered in 42... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
the popularity of photos? Piskorski hypothesizes that people who post pictures of themselves can show they are having fun and are popular without having to boast. Another draw of photos (and of SN sites in general) is that they enable a form of voyeurism. In real life... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
with the responsibility to enforce rules may penalize transgressors more harshly when they are faced with a conflicting motivation to be lenient. Specifically, we test how transgressors are punished when it is their birthday: a day when social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Moreover, we find that relatively higher wages also promote social norms such that coworkers are less (more) likely to collude to steal inventory from their company when relative wages are higher (lower). Our research contributes to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is too complex, and our ability to model it too limited, for us to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
from the CEO—a process entailing the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation (RPE). We evaluate the efficacy of firms' chosen RPE benchmarks and document that, relative to a normative benchmark, index-based... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
accounts—a tactic that consumers have already used at many online retailers. And industry norms let consumers find ways around almost any rule intended to block multiple purchases. For example, even when consumers are limited to a single... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4% to 35% of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper argues that two factors account for this rapid increase in "bride importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
of the other fees. The restaurants must offset their costs. "One might imagine a restaurant charging a reservation fee to the specific diners who book through OpenTable, but to date that hasn't happened—and it seems there are pretty strong View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
silence his anticorruption activities. The deputy governor of Kirov called the charges "complete nonsense." Another case, Caijing Magazine, set in China, looks at how an inside-outsider, Wang Boming, uses his independent financial newsmagazine to carefully... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
United States," Ton points out, "the norm is only seven hours, and the difference shows." For example, Mercadona cross-trains employees so their productivity is not tied to store traffic. Cleaners can work the cash... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
commingle. One explanation is that norms for family relationships are often applied to relationships in other domains of life, such as professional or business relationships. The other interesting finding is that the link between economic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne