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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
Medication Administration By: Tucker, Anita L. Abstract—Operational failures persist in hospitals, in part because employees work around them rather than attempt to prevent recurrence. Drawing on a process improvement tool-the Andon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
a share that changed little over the period 2002-2009, but one that is approximately half of estimates frequently cited in the trade press. The persistence of a diverse and relatively unconcentrated size structure appears quite consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
show that, even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest, on average, more in their offspring than poorer ones. As a result, persistence of economic status is higher at the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
Overconfident subjects also persist in making the mistake despite clear feedback. These results suggest non-linear pay schemes may help companies select and retain overconfident workers and may reduce the wage bill. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
contexts. Empirical results reveal that special items receiving income statement presentation are less persistent relative to those receiving footnote presentation. These results are consistent across numerous alternative specifications.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
privately for a talk about why the behavior isn’t OK. “If you can tell your friend that he’s drinking too much and you need to drive, you can tell someone if they persist in making comments that make women uncomfortable,” Kanter says.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
lasting effect on their narratives—the effects persist even for executives who are later exposed to different ethnic cultures through work experience. The effect of ethnic heritage is observed in dialogues that reflect real time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
projects in the wake of this type of information. I also find evidence that firms overreact to failure news from closely related competitor projects. Finally, I investigate project- and firm-level characteristics that drive persistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
conditions after the employee has accepted the contract-with no future employment) does lead to higher effort for the duration of the job. Targeted gifts are more efficient than hiring more workers. However, the mechanism makes this unlikely to explain View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
that these spillover effects cannot be seamlessly offset, even though issuers are large, highly rated firms. Our results illustrate that instabilities associated with money market funds persist despite recent changes to the regulations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to firms with lesser capabilities and those who moved solo, without other team members. Star analysts who moved between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
industry sectors. At the holding-company level, the four largest organizations account for only about a quarter of the industry's total revenue, a share that changed little over the period 2002-2008, but one that is approximately half of estimates frequently cited in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-021.pdf What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson Abstract An abstract is unavailable at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Our strong and robust results are for 1500 A.D. determining per capita income today. We find technological persistence across long epochs: from 1000 B.C. to 0... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace