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- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
on the Uber app, signaling availability, but have yet to be matched with a passenger. And drivers’ ordinary personal insurance usually considers that to be commercial activity, denying coverage for any losses in this circumstance. Edelman... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
to by assigning overly optimistic ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The high ratings signaled to investors that the financial instruments had little chance of default, but the burst of the... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
responsibility, would add little to the candidate's development. Instead she was given a general management assignment—and the team got a signal from the CEO about his commitment to diversity. His behavior communicated a sense of... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
as they must try to achieve two goals simultaneously: protecting their citizens by being directive, and punitive towards rule-breakers; and assembling and relying on the right knowledge to deal with this pandemic threat. This calls for ambidextrous leadership whereby... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
correlational and causal evidence that humblebragging has both global costs-reducing liking and perceived sincerity-and specific costs: it is even ineffective in signaling the specific trait that a person wants to promote. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
and operations theory suggests that the longer people wait, the less satisfied they become; we demonstrate that due to what we term the labor illusion, when websites engage in operational transparency by signaling that they are exerting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
distributional side they [the plan’s authors] seem to be sending signals that they don't want this to be criticized as just a tax cut that privileges people at the top. But they have some work to do. I think it's not easy to sell this as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
clearly a signal was given: Don’t get complacent. You have to earn your keep. And if you do, you will be rewarded. A: That’s right. And people can accept more responsibility if you let them. That was a smart move because the advertising... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
treatment with a simulation of paying U.S. federal taxes. Allowing taxpayers to signal their preferences on the distribution of government spending results in a 15% reduction in the stated take-up rate of a questionable tax loophole.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
relative to other U.S. technologies. Since the signaling component of a World's Fair prize was replicated through publication of an invention in the Scientific American, our results suggest that publicity for promising research fields is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators are willing to pay a dollar to learn more about their recipient. Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
case," Nohria said, "we have to start with this basic belief in creating value. Our students have to understand that when they go out in the world, they have to be seen as people who are creating value in society." The words "in the world"... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
advantage of new technologies in the early 1900s: "If I asked people what they wanted," he said, "they would have said, 'Faster horses.' Expand your horizons: Set aside a portion of every week for broadening your perspective. Identify important global... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
could prevent if we only knew what to look for. This book plays on that fear and offers a positive, proactive resolution to it. Two leading experts in managerial decision making show that many disasters in business are preceded by clear warning View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
contributions, it would have signaled the birth of truly rigorous business history. Schumpeter had a very strong attraction to history, and after writing Business Cycles, he urged again and again that economists pay more attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
move signals the importance of partnering to a firm's strategy, facilitates efforts to transfer learning across projects, and helps to standardize methods for selecting and managing partners. Q: Can you give examples of companies that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
restructuring or explicit affirmative action policies for women. Being thoughtful about the implicit signals that are embedded in the structure of the organization in terms of who is in what types of positions may be a way of getting more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
governance and compensation issues 75 percent and 92 percent of the time, respectively. Vanguard has also met with some 1,000 executives from companies it invests in. In 2015, CEO Bill McNabb signaled his recognition of the increased role... View Details