Strategic Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Harvard Business Review Planned Opportunism: Using Weak Signals to Spur Innovations By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51052 forthcoming Strategic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Feb 2014
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and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization and its strategic activities. Specifically, we consider how this shift in information processing costs affects... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

allowances, low bank share prices, and tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Aug 2012
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Specifically, focusing attention on "interested" legislators' behavior captures important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

PublicationsMediators in Position Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract A mediator is a reliable entity, which can play on behalf of agents in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Feb 2014
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http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/Land%20Reform.pdf August 2013 Psychological Science Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity By: Gino, F., and S. Wiltermuth Abstract—We propose that dishonest and creative View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2012
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http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/15/issue/1/article/4941/sustaining-innovation-when-outsourcing-components Ethically Adrift: How Others Pull Our Moral Compass from True North Authors:C. Moore and F. Gino Publication:Research in Organizational View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 May 2012
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approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven by both the social and the environmental dimension of CSR. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-130.pdf The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2013
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Behavior and Human Decision Processes Abstract The present research investigated the dual role of cognition as either an enabler of moral reasoning or self-interested motivated reasoning for endorsing sweatshop labor. Experiment 1A showed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2011
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the concept of threat rigidity to the class and explore some of the team behaviors that result from this condition. Book: http://www.amazon.com/Group-Communication-Analysis-Appreciation-Application/dp/0757582958/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2015
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disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

perspective on Peterson's behavior and problems. This case can be handed out during class discussion of the (D) case. A redisguised and updated version of earlier case 494-009. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207092 Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game? Harvard Business School Case 707-501 In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which strategic choices would give it... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2004
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The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

months of the external financing activity. It may be that in an attempt to garner investment banking business, analysts have strategically become overly optimistic as they sense that firms are considering capital issuances." Can you... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

08 Oct 2013
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2013 Harvard Business Review How Should Your Leaders Behave? By: Sharer, Kevin Abstract—The article discusses the value of effective leadership and an examination of the ways in which a corporate leader should behave as of October 2013, focusing on role models in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne