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  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great potential to make a global impact.” However, that long View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-070.pdf Search Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Applying a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

opportunity—and how they cognitively and emotionally reframe investment risk into a compelling narrative that transcends avoidance behavior and leads investors to invest. These findings expand our overall understanding of the complex ways... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Lending Outcomes By: Campbell, Dennis, Maria Loumioti, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman Abstract—We explore how cognitive constraints can impede the effective processing and interpretation of less salient, non-quantitative (soft) information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

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 to respond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

workers with heterogeneous human capital interface with machine learning, relative to the older Boolean search technology. We randomly assign individuals with and without computer science and engineering (CS&E) knowledge bases to each... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

recognize that expressing dissent can be very difficult and uncomfortable for lower-level managers and employees. Therefore, leaders cannot wait for dissent to come to them; they must actively go seek it out in their organizations. In short, they must View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in emerging markets? One view argues that limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

that, relative to offering free shipping, offering contingent free shipping increases basket sizes by encouraging consumers to meet the minimum order threshold. Consumers incur search costs to meet this threshold exactly; sellers may... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jun 2017
  • News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

path. It works for recruiting too, allowing companies in search of specific personality traits to find ideal workers. Today I talk with neuroscientist Frida Polli, cofounder and CEO of pymetrics, about what characteristics make for, say,... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

control over whether and when identities are co-activated. We also argue that compatibility arises from cognitive routines which emerge from active and passive adaptation to situations in which co-activation of identities occurs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

chain. However, companies that weren’t born as platform businesses rarely realize that they can—at least partially—turn their offerings into one, say the authors. And even if they do realize it, they often wander in the dark searching for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

lengths—60, 30, and 10 seconds—and in 10-second silent videos and 10-second audio clips. We find that perceptions of collective properties of groups, including cohesion, affective trust, and cognitive trust partially mediate perceivers’... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

has arrived. Thanks to 50 years of research by judgment and decision-making scholars, psychologists have developed a detailed picture of the ways in which human judgment is bounded. This paper argues that the time has come to focus attention on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

Financial Literacy, Financial Decisions, and the Demand for Financial Services: Evidence from India and Indonesia Authors:Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in emerging markets? One view argues that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

doctors at least two weeks to sift through these mutations, searching for the ones that were diagnostically significant. But Watson was able to highlight within moments which mutated genes had likely developed into cancer. Based on... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

of the "long tail" principle argue that lower transaction and search costs will lead to a shift away from hit content and cause more fragmentation in consumers' choices. This perspective is in sharp contrast with the more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

the nascent smart cities industry and find that firm leaders engaged in a set of legitimation activities intended to help external stakeholders understand and appreciate the firm and its industry. Our analysis uncovers three unintended View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

the firm's culture and performance. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208020   PublicationsHow Actions Create—Not Just Reveal—Preferences Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton Periodical:Trends in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace