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Casey Gerald
Casey Gerald prefers not to make a big deal of his football-playing days as a cornerback. “We won a championship, we lost a championship – and I broke a few bones,” he says. But football became a bridge to Yale; an unexpected opportunity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
and overall outcomes. Projects will include improving New York’s system to match middle school students to their preferred school and prompting doctors to respond more effectively to the opioid crisis, among others. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
That’s actually good news because it’s harder to change people’s taste preferences than it is beliefs,” says Minor, joking that he’s been trying to change his daughter’s food tastes for years. Minor used a survey pool of 7,000... View Details
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
opportunities of conducting business and introducing innovation in Japan. Secondly, it demonstrates how innovation can emerge and diffuse by combining novel business models and marketing strategies. Thirdly, students will have the opportunity to learn from View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose suboptimal individual and joint profits when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to consider as they approach world markets. Levitt's key insight endures: Consumer View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23
intervention. Working PapersWhen Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract Are large menus better than small menus? Recent literature argues that individuals' apparent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Rye Barcott
If there is a theme to Rye Barcott's career to date, it has been his willingness to confront painful situations many of us would prefer to ignore. "I've always been interested in understanding ethnic violence and intervention,"... View Details
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
of social science and intellectual history more generally. In this book, some of the world’s leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his Short Treatise. The authors analyse the work in its historical,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
School presents "Preference vs. Practice: Unintended Consequences of Gender Preferences in Innovation Acceleration" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Sarah Kaplan, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy, University... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
performance of an under-performing company than on grooming leadership within the company. A famous CEO was preferred over a low-profile CEO, as the former was seen as a boost to public and investor confidence—and share prices—fast. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Class Profile | MBA
Average GPA (based on US schools that use a 4.0 grading system) Undergraduate Majors Arts / Humanities 5% Business / Commerce 24% Economics 19% Engineering 22% Math / Physical Sciences 18% Social Sciences 12% 5 Years Average Work... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
market through a thicket of government regulations. Beyond diversity, note the authors, the group also has to be encouraged to develop several creative options to a problem that has been clearly framed by a leader who has carefully avoided indicating a View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
particular social or work settings." While agreeing in general, Ann Parker voiced a note of caution: "All leaders at times mask their feelings, especially fear or uncertainty. The danger is that for some they begin to believe... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
fulfill its independent fiduciary responsibilities in overseeing this global organization? While there is a temptation to pile on, I would prefer to comment on what can be learned from this situation. This and other leadership crises of... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
ideas into great businesses and are protected from senior managers who believe out-of-the-box thinkers need a lesson. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mood Congruity, Self-monitoring and Retail Context Preference Authors:Rohit Deshpandé,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot? In The Architecture of Innovation, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner-one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
beneficiaries, even if the beneficiaries themselves might (had they been asked) have preferred more socially responsible investments. This quandary led one pension fund manager to respond to my question of... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler