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- 20 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Positive Professional Image
As HBS professor Laura Morgan Roberts sees it, if you aren't managing your own professional image, others are. "People are constantly observing your behavior and forming theories about your competence, character, and commitment,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various productive activities in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
"we have a bigger budget than expected." So the additional dollar was perceived as a gift, Malhotra said. "Those who were promised $3 but then later were given an additional $1 worked significantly harder than the other two groups," he said. "We View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past seems like an admirable goal. Naturally, some observers attribute the poor performance of others to human error of one kind or another. They blame the firm's leaders for making critical... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 11 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs
- Research Summary
Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
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Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
Thought Theory (UTT); namely, that unconscious thought is a bottom-up process, whereas conscious thought is a top-down process. In two experiments on impression formation, participants read behavioral information about a fictitious person... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
the number of unique messages a user received during the beginning of the experiment, and divided the group into thirds. Physical attributes didn’t come into play, though there could be overlap between the number of messages and... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We find a strong correlation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-ordinary-heroes-of-the-taj/ar/1 Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs Authors:Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah Kolb Publication:Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
examples: Avis's classic slogan "we're number 2" emphasized that it was playing second fiddle to a giant in the rental car business. Oprah Winfrey's success is largely attributable to her ability to construct a repeating... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
percent Latino and 0.6 percent Asian). When it comes to NBA coaches, however, the exact opposite is true: there are six black head coaches among 30 teams, or just 20 percent of the league. Research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
prosperity growth (Baldwin, 2003; Dollar/Kraay, 2002; Frankel/Romer, 1999; Sachs/ Warner 1995), or highlighted the role of trade as a means to tap into foreign knowledge and raise productivity (Coe/Helpman, 1995; Alcala/Ciccone, 2004). But others are more skeptical and... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
offered a course in starting new ventures. After 1983, the School began using the working definition of entrepreneurship as the "pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources that you currently control." We identified six View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
stereotypes and does not address why, then these differences—in temperament, values, attitudes, and behaviors—take on a determinative quality. In a culture that readily promotes gender essentialism—the belief that sex differences are natural—stereotypes provide a... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the financial crisis came as such a shock to so many people—and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15325 PublicationsHow Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Publication:The Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
no check box for the attributes we really want to know most about, he says, such as, is this a kind person? "So people search based on income, ethnicity, religion—these things are important and they are all decent predictors of... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007
Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Periodical:Economic Journal 117 (2007): F189-F217 Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace