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  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

the experiment: each "more-on-the-right" decision would earn them 10 times as much as a "left" decision. In half the trials, it was obvious that one side of the square had more dots than the other—2 dots versus 18, for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

and licensed to practice radiology in the United States. The data set included 2.7 million scans read by the radiologists for 1,431 customers over a 30-month period. Nearly 85 percent of the scans were CT; roughly 10 percent were... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • 27 Jul 2019
  • Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

platform. Advertisers used that data to create psychographic profiles of potential customers that went beyond mere demographics to give insights into what they like and value. Studies have found that with just 10 “likes” an algorithm can... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
  • 18 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

systemic view of how all these tasks fit together. The reason why mostly white flowers get planted on campus or an eleventh student section gets created (beyond the standard 10 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608707   PublicationsCreativity and the Role of the Leader Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Mukti Khaire Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

stakes of sitting on a board are statistically higher for women than for men. For example, 90 percent of male board members are married, versus 72 percent of female members, and 90 percent of the men have children, versus 64 percent of the women. The divorce rate among... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

and social posts in 2018. Tell us in the comment section below what you thought were the most interesting business trends of the year and what you expect in 2019. Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults In earlier research, Kathleen... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

affect the bids of higher-ranked advertisers. Consider an advertiser ("A") who obtains the next-to-last slot. The fee paid by the lowest advertiser ("B") is generally set by Google's minimum bid. But A needs to set its bid high enough to prevent... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European nations such habituation may take over five years so the happiness gains that they experience, while not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

three classes are currently working full time. (Of those who ticked "at home," 36 percent are working part time.) For all those who indicated that they do plan to return to full-time work, Hart says, "few, really less than View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

crisis hit the Western markets. The use of project finance has grown at a compound rate of 0% over the last five years, 4% over the past 10 years, and 12% over the past 15 years. This note focuses primarily on private sector investment in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

the researchers looked at a representative cross section of 3,260 firms between 1998 and 2006 that are publicly traded and have their headquarters in the United States. Their first finding was that—contrary to the image of hordes of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

allow people to act on temporary emotions and impulses. (A recent paper by David Card and Gordon Dahl shows a 10 percent spike in domestic violence immediately after a local National Football League team suffers an upset loss,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

expenditures using project finance in 2006, up from $217 billion in 2001. The use of project finance has grown at a compound rate of 13% over the past 10 years. Focuses primarily on private sector investment in industrial and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path-related outcomes. It then focuses on creating a new set of data that can start shedding light on the empirical relevance of this framework. The first main View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

people." The articles in this special section were already in press when the order was issued, and this serendipity further underscores the timeliness of this special section. These articles propose many examples of the very actions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

workplace interactions. Building on West and Zimmerman's (1987) now classic articulation of gender as "the product of social doings," we describe this organizationally induced behavior as "undoing" gender. We use this case, together with secondary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

Simulation B alters the setting by allowing students to determine expected returns through a simultaneous auction. We continue to have agreement over the covariance matrix, and implicitly over expected payoffs, but allow students to set... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

of countries has its own fascination. That's why we prefer to think about a cross section of countries and understand what is similar and different. We focus on many different emerging markets to develop a theory that spans all emerging... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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