Natural Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

devoid of objective improvement—when revisions are trivial (Study 3A), incidental (Study 3B), non-existent (Study 3C), and even objectively worse than the original (Study 3D). Study 4 directly tests the self-fulfilling nature of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

behavioral change, does it change other elements of what you're doing as well?" A Series Of Experiments As their working paper explains, the researchers combined empirical and experimental methods to test the purchasing effect of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

unacknowledged, he suggested. Misunderstandings about goals are the result. Pay-for-performance may also have a natural life cycle that managers are unaware of, he said. Problems In San Diego One HP unit that threw the matter into relief... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11

alternative explanations for some important empirical observations in IB, such as bunching and second-mover advantage in market entries. 2006 Journal of Financial Economics How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

training they provide, market pressures, corporate governance shortcomings, and even the nature of leadership itself. John led the charge by saying, “Having taught within business schools for 20 years, I’ve had instructors talk about... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

employees to take better control of both their workdays and their lives. Excerpt From sleeping With Your Smartphone It all began with an experiment that my research associate and collaborator, Jessica Porter, and I initiated in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

a relationship between the design of a complex system and the manner in which this system evolves over time. In particular, designs which are modular in nature are argued to be more "evolvable," in that these designs facilitate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

learned is the nature of the problem. We, perhaps like many others, had the misconception that cultural factors were the primary inhibitor to literacy development in India. However, it turns out that 85 percent of school-age children... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

2009, Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn has developed keen insight into the exigent nature of such challenges. Her experiences there prompted her to study how teaching communication and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

nature of the innovation problem at hand, the motivation of the external developers, and the firm's platform business model. Depending on these factors, the outside innovation might be fed and managed either by creating collaborative... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

If there is one job that many software analysts and programmers cannot stand, it is testing software on the path to launch. The grinding concentration and repetitive nature of the tasks serve to drive many techies around the bend.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

it as a question, Dianne Jacobs challenged us to think about whether "the experience and consequences of practicing leadership (and the use of masks) will be different for women"? (She believes they are.) Dr. Kervokian asked... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54150 Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment By: Daines, Robert, Shelley Xin Li, and Charles C.Y. Wang... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53928 Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon... View Details