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  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

potential for embarrassment, and even religious conviction? Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:First Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented CBA and have reached a set of conclusions that are misguided and, if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

representations, and the organization's own set of beliefs and practices.  By linking these changes to the company documents, the study sheds light on how shifts in US society's understanding of gender influences beliefs and practices inside organizations.  To maximize... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

buck" calculations are potentially misleading guides for the welfare effects of alternative fiscal policies.   Working PapersBehavioral Corporate Finance: An Updated Survey Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract We survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

raised potential challenges to the dominance of leading firms. Our research tells a fascinating story of an industry that has proved remarkably resilient in resolving economic and regulatory challenges. It provides practitioners and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

Sustainable cost reduction is best achieved by optimizing the quantity and mix of all the resources needed to produce excellent outcomes for a patient's medical condition, not by across-the-board reductions in line-item expenses.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

cream), controlling for customer fixed effects. These findings are all consistent with theories suggesting that people's should selves exert more influence over their choices the further in the future outcomes will be experienced.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

that will reimagine health and other fields for decades more. Revenues at IBM have been in the red since 2012, yet analysts have pointed to Watson as the engine that can revitalize the company—as the potential through-line that will touch... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

research on the outcomes and cost-effectiveness of various approaches to treatment. The case allows for a critical analysis of the Spine Center's unique approach to care delivery and provides an opportunity to examine the applicability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

job and getting banned from serving as an executive or director at any other company for five years. This consensual workplace relationship—forbidden under the iconic fast-food chain’s fraternization policy because of potential conflicts... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Empirically, we find that an author's connection to the media outlet is related to the outcome of the review decision. When a book's author also writes for a media outlet, that outlet is 25% more likely to review the book relative to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

experiences at work and at home are shaped by social class, heightening identification with gender for relatively upper class women and identification with class for relatively lower class women, potentially mitigating, or even reversing,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

grounded in a definition of creativity as the production of ideas or outcomes that are both novel and appropriate to some goal. In this theory, four components are necessary for any creative response: three components within the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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
  • 17 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

any other organism) to become more resilient, or it can have the opposite effect, wearing down and depleting their physical and mental resources. The outcome depends on many factors: Whether the stress was chosen or involuntary,... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

supplemental, qualitative investigation, we propose some potential interpretations for our findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54356 forthcoming Psychological Science The Effect of Graphic Warnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

components. In essence, a small number of components generate a large proportion of system costs. However, we find major differences in the potential benefits available from refactoring these systems, related to their differing designs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne