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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
prior work in fairness, the studies show that this effect is driven by violations of norms and the perceived similarity between the inferior, degraded version of a product and the full-featured model offered by the brand. Fundamental Data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
theory building. ML strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns in the data. Additionally, ML methods address several concerns (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects for global effects) raised by scholars relative to the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
consumption paths and then into a net effect on social welfare. I calibrate that framework using recently produced data on Social Security beneficiaries by lifetime income decile and both existing and new survey evidence on the normative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
weakening its capacity to achieve espoused goals and eroding public trust. In the private sector, institutional corruption typically entails gaming society's laws and regulations, tolerating conflicts of interest, persistently violating accepted View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
Corporation) equivalent insures 401(k) assets—these two literatures came to the same conclusion: Locate highly taxed assets inside of tax-deferred accounts. Jim and I came in to this literature from a different angle. Rather than taking a View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them. Extensions address screening and signaling in hiring, the effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
highlights the challenges of building a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research collaboration that is attempting to create a treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) based on a novel scientific approach. The case provides details on how View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the popular choice. Our findings are consistent with optimal distinctiveness and middle-status conformity theories and have implications for designing normative marketing campaigns. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
hypothesize that obligation toward others would follow the norms of both direct and indirect reciprocity. Direct reciprocity predicts that obligation toward network members increases to the extent that one receives resources directly from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
capabilities, competitive actions, and customer buying behaviors. 3. As a result of this lack of leadership, a channel and its norms become deeply embedded as the primary way of reaching customers. Even when a channel gets a leader, it is... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
future problems and opportunities for innovation. The third is a tendency to fail to probe the root causes of success. Whereas post-mortems after failure are becoming a norm in many organizations, such soul searching rarely occurs after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
introducing a different normative standard (i.e., National Regifting Day) corrected the asymmetry in beliefs about entitlement and increased regifting. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/adams flynn norton.pdf Creating a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
execution of the pivotal trials (clinical studies) that are used to support the regulatory approval of high-risk devices. We also review norms in the publication of pivotal trials in peer-reviewed medical journals; these publications... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
people prefer the action that saves more lives, despite its being more aversive. Our findings shed light on the formation of moral judgment under normative conflict, the conditions for preference reversal, and the potential polarization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
of cadavers much less so.) For medical schools in countries with strong societal norms against donating one's body to science, such a supply route can prove quite practical. In those and other instances, medical schools can purchase for a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
preferences of their peers—and assessed subsequent brain activity during an incidental processing task in which participants viewed popular, unpopular, and novel symbols. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) differentiated between symbols that were and were not socially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
research on institutional leadership, strategic contradiction, and industry evolution. Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation By: Scherf, Robert, and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract—The normative principle of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
utilitarian criterion can be simulated using conventional constraints and methods. A wide range of optimal policy outcomes can result, including those consistent with existing policies. To the extent that such an objective reflects the mixed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
the way that, for more than a century, it has articulated and shaped for the larger society a set of ideas, aspirations, and norms concerning business and management. Moreover, the visions and values animating the university-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman