Publications

July 2014
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Accounting for Crises

By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu

We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis

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September 2023
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A Pull versus Push Framework for Reputation

By: Jillian J. Jordan

Reputation is a powerful driver of human behavior. Reputation systems incentivize 'actors' to take reputation-enhancing actions, and 'evaluators' to reward actors with positive reputations by preferentially cooperating with them. This article proposes a reputation... View Details

Keywords: Reputation; Behavior; Game Theory

13 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

this so much because it resonates with people, so we set out to do empirical work around that: Is this indeed the pattern we see in an experimental context? If it is, what might we be able to do about it?” she says. As it turns out,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

22 Dec 2009
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Working PapersInternational Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Abstract This paper examines differences in the size and roles of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? I draw from extensive personal interaction and correspondence with nearly fifty former executives as well as research in psychology, criminology, and economics to investigate how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Real Effects of Relational Contracts

By: Steven Blader, Claudine Gartenberg, Rebecca Henderson and Andrea Pratt

How important are factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful controls for factors such... View Details

21 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Children Develop a Veil of Fairness

Keywords: by A. Shaw, N. Montinari, M. Piovesan, K.R. Olson, F. Gino & M.I. Norton

Research Summary

Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting.

Forecasting firm-level sales is a key activity in top-down planning in most organizations. In the retailing industry, firms can use inventory and price to stimulate demand. Hence, standard time series methods for sales forecasting can be improved by incorporating... View Details

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Petting Away Pre-exam Stress: The Effect of Therapy Dog Sessions on Student Well-being

By: Emma Ward-Griffin, Patrick Klaiber, Hanne Collins, Rhea L. Owens, Stanley Coren and Frances S Chen

Recently, many universities have implemented programmes in which therapy dogs and their handlers visit college campuses. Despite the immense popularity of therapy dog sessions, few randomized studies have empirically tested the efficacy of such programmes. The present... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Happiness

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The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

studies from methodological and ideological perspectives; others find the overarching questions and theories of the time have new relevance in light of the current focus on collaborative management. The experiments remain a telling case study of View Details

2011
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

2013
Working Paper

How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions

By: Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes and Yuval Millo

This paper, based on a five-year longitudinal study at two UK-based banks, documents and analyzes the practices used by risk managers as they aim to gather and establish influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1)... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Power and Influence; Business Strategy; Banking Industry

July–September 2023
Article

A Systematic Review of Respect Between Acute Care Nurses and Physicians

By: Derrick P. Bransby, Anna T. Mayo, Matthew A. Cronin, Katie Park and Christina Yuan

Background: Interprofessional collaboration between nurses and physicians has become an essential part of patient care, which, when lacking, can lead to well-known challenges. One possible explanation for ineffective nurse–physician collaboration is a lack of... View Details

Keywords: Relationships; Status and Position; Cooperation; Attitudes; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Health Industry

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2013
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Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry

By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick

The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Economics; United States

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09 Sep 2015
HBS Seminar

Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University

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Program Requirements - Doctoral

behavior courses: Micro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS 4882) Macro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS 4880) Completion of four term-length courses in research methods: Two term-length courses in quantitative methods (FAS... View Details

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Program Requirements - Doctoral

2144) Computational Economics (Econ 2149) Time Series Analysis (Econ 2142) Seminar in Applied Statistical Methods (HBS 4809) Research methods courses that meet the research design course requirement include,... View Details

May 2020
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Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger

In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods