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- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling shortchanged. Even though team members initially recognize and value each other's potential... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
and in turn devote more effort to learning and improving. We test our hypotheses using data collected in field and laboratory settings. This multi-method approach supports our theoretical model and permits us to gain further insight into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
their increased tendency to behave fairly. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/shaw et al.pdf Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Georgetown... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
and limited to a short window of time. Consistent with theories of status, however, the effect of the prize is significantly larger when there is uncertainty about scientist and article quality. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the firm prior to being appointed to the board: sell-side analysts who end up serving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Organizations By: Lee, Julia J., and Francesca Gino Abstract—Competition for resources, recognition, and favorable outcomes are all facts of life in professional settings. When one falls short in comparison to colleagues or subordinates,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
other data by geography, and is now working on Common Pass, a platform that will pull clinical information from Common Health and Apple Health to allow travelers to display health status. The goal is to use the information to facilitate... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
School Case 716-462 A Note on Activist Investors and the Tech Sector This short note provides background and data on the growing role of corporate activists, especially in high-technology industries.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
Self-Policing? (revised) Authors:Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract Administrative agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs, both as an investigative tool and as a way of encouraging regulated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
question, which is linked to the idea of lifelong learning, is one we candidly have had limited success addressing in the past. We've tried short Executive Education programs targeted solely at alumni, extended programming over reunion... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented with eight in-depth case studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
experienced.) The cognitive science shows us is that there are limits to how fast you can drive in the learning.— Dorothy Leonard Walt and I studied mostly companies on the West Coast. Brian studied the incubators here in Boston. Walt and I also went to Asia. So the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
managing relationships with audiences and advertisers. Provides unique insights into the launch of a network—a rare enterprise—and the associated marketing and branding campaign. Also contains rich television ratings data that can form... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
promote complementarity across channels. We find that opening retail stores cannibalizes sales in the catalog and online channels in the short term but produces complementary effects in both channels in the long term; cannibalization is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
demographics of America shift," he explains. With a relatively short season compared to other sports leagues, the NFL has scored by developing the off-season draft and scouting combine into days-long, high-powered media events. This could... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace