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  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

steps to re-virtualize the company under his leadership. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813057-PDF-ENG Peter Jepsen Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Jim SharpeHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA's Office of National Estimates

By: J. Peter Scoblic
Would-be forecasters have increasingly extolled the predictive potential of Big Data and artificial intelligence. This essay reviews the career of Sherman Kent, the Yale historian who directed the CIA’s Office of National Estimates from 1952 to 1967, with an eye toward... View Details
Keywords: National Security; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; History
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  • Editorial

I Tried Writing This in the Time It Would Take a Russian Missile to Hit Washington—I Didn't Finish

By: J. Peter Scoblic
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  • 2009
  • Book

U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror

By: J. Peter Scoblic
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Present Bias Causes and Then Dissipates Auto-enrollment Savings Effects

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Peter Maxted
Present bias causes procrastination, which leads households to stick with auto-enrollment defaults. However, present bias also engenders overconsumption. Separation from each employer generates a rollover of 401(k) balances to an individual retirement account (IRA)... View Details
Keywords: Present Bias; Procrastination; Personal Finance; Decision Making; Social Psychology; Retirement
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Presidents Need to be Able to Do Nothing. Donald Trump Can't Do It.

By: J. Peter Scoblic
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  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

and the environment will make the relevance of microprocess research findings to broader organizational questions easier to discern and therefore more likely to disseminate to the larger field of organizational research. We empirically assess this assertion View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

  Publications February 2015 Journal of Finance The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract—Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Jobs and Positions
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  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

Online World David J. Collis, Peter W. Olson, and Mary FureyHarvard Business School Case 709-464 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 13, 2017
  • Article

The World Almost Ended One Week in 1983

By: Nate Jones and J. Peter Scoblic
Keywords: Foreign Policy; Cold War; Nuclear
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  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013 Frontiers in Perception Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2015
  • Published Proceedings

Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings of the Michigan Meeting, May 2015

By: Andrew J. Hoffman, Kirsti Ashworth, Chase Dwelle, Peter Goldberg, Andrew Henderson, Louis Merlin, Yulia Muzyrya, Norma-Jean Simon, Veronica Taylor, Corinne Weisheit and Sarah Wilson
What is the role of the academic scholar within the discussions of the global challenges that are relevant to society, such as sustainability, health care, gun control, fiscal policy, and international affairs? How do scholars engage in a world in which knowledge is... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Social Issues; Knowledge Sharing; Communication Strategy
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  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

Cooperation and Reciprocity in the Workplace Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Publication:Chap. 21 in Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity. Vol. 2, edited by Serge-Christophe Kolm and Jean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

exercise:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311111-PDF-ENG BP's Macondo: Spill and Response Julio J. RotembergHarvard Business School Case 711-021 This case starts by reporting various factors that may... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
This paper provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Surveys; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Job Search; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Service Operations; Internet and the Web
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  • Editorial

The Power of Precise Predictions

By: Philip E. Tetlock and J. Peter Scoblic
Keywords: Politics; Foreign Policy; Forecasting and Prediction; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics
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  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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