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  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

influence their everyday work life, but to date, little is known about how weather affects individual productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we predict and find that bad weather increases individual productivity and that it does so by eliminating potential... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

what they were doing.” In contrast, the startups that would ultimately become the cognitive referents controlled their messages carefully, expending much effort to correct labels or comparisons they felt... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women with access to long-term birth... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

distinction is possible because strategy and business model are different constructs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-036.pdf The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no controls for these effects indicate that annualized buy-side Strong Buy/Buy recommendations underperform those for sell-side peers by 5.9% using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2001
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How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

focus, setup minimization, etc. The products and services characteristic of our modern economy are far too complex for any one person to understand how they work. It is cognitively overwhelming. Therefore, organizations must have some... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 21 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 21, 2010

of continued collaboration. We theoretically refine and empirically extend prior research by (a) distinguishing between control and coordination functions of contracts, (b) separating goodwill-based and competence-based trust, and (c)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

randomly assigned to one of two groups: the "creative mindset" group and the control group. All were asked to construct sentences from sets of randomly positioned words. But in the creative mindset group, more than half of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

within pre-existing cognitive categories and therefore do not benefit from a pre-existing understanding or identity of an industry. Given the importance of identity, it is critical that we understand how the identity of a new industry is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

from analytics when they haven’t declared it themselves. If marketers avoid those tactics, use data judiciously, focus on increasing trust and transparency, and offer people control over their personal data, their ads are much more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

marketplace and so under-invest in the new technology. The second suggests that incumbent firms develop organizational capabilities and cognitive frames that make them slow to "see" new opportunities and that make it difficult... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

  Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

surrounding their adoption. This finding raises the possibility that even though GPs facilitate some value-increasing acquisitions, they do have, on average, an overall negative effect on shareholder wealth; this effect could be due to GPs weakening the force of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and-barely-to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation's hard-won independence from Britain. Buy the book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

approach has supposed." Marie Taillard adds, "we are shifting away from thinking that we can predict or control the behavior of others ." Because economics is a study of value, Deepak Alse comments that "what we need... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be contributing to a divergence in the pattern of business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

Nava, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martínez A., and Dean Yang Abstract—While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired comparison of Dalian and Harbin in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Sigman Abstract—We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

  PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011) Abstract We tested and found... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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