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  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

elephant attack to become a leading artificial intelligence software company. The case describes his unusual management approach emphasizing employee testing and selection, customer View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

companies have a sense of mission enabling them to deliver what their customers want in a way that is significantly better than the competition. As a formula for the future, it brings together the necessity of financial success... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

time compared to the support departments. We suggest that the burden of compensating for the disconnected internal supply chains fell to the service providers because they were the only department that had both the ability to translate View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

important from the 1970s through the end of the century, and as a result, we have seen a massive proliferation of MBA programs. Despite the significant leveling of undergraduate education, the proliferation of the MBA has, in some ways, functioned as another View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four studies, participants practiced novel rituals at home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)—play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have largely investigated autonomous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

analyze the data using nonparametric tests and regression analysis. Findings—The mean number of business segments per firm varies significantly by country. Notably, there is no evidence in our sample that emerging-market companies are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

  Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Although the data allow only some suggestive tests of rival hypotheses to explain long-run technological persistence, we find the evidence to be most consistent with a model of endogenous technology adoption where the cost of adopting new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

are skewed disproportionately amongst the rich, as the evidence suggests, then poorer matching in the marriage market will in turn lead to weaker bargaining positions for females. I test this theory and examine its implications for later... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that socialization focused on personal identity (emphasizing newcomers' unique perspectives and strengths) led to significantly greater customer satisfaction... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

on a farsighted version of strong dominance (cf., Roth and Postlewaite, 1977) if no individual is indifferent between his endowment and the endowment of someone else. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-129.pdf Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

Greiner Periodical:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract This paper revisits the experiment on the solidarity game by Selten and Ockenfels (1998). We replicate the basic design of the solidarity game and extend it in order to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

make exactly that happen: a process tested successfully by BCG teams in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. A process I have seen implemented with good and not-so-good managers; on big and small teams, with tight... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

research. We test this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings reveal a continuum of open-systems to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs to develop a set of hypotheses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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