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  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

stated goal was to provide tobacco smokers with a less harmful e-cigarette alternative, JUUL Labs’s products had proven widely popular with teenage high school students who had never smoked. Some advocacy groups and public policy makers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

enlightened economists—and illustrates the extent to which each tribe has been captured by the concept of self-interest. After arguing that this fixation has caused—and is likely to continue to cause—significant harm to our economy, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

in queue characteristics, we find that, on average, deviations lead to slower completion times, providing evidence of the costs of exercising discretion. Doctors tend to deviate more, and deviations tend to be less detrimental with experience, yet deviations remain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

harming its own sales or those of its retail customers? Could Unilever encourage industry-wide changes to have a real impact on global environmental sustainability? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

when the (petty) amount given is more generous (e.g., a gift card for $5.15 rather than $5), suggesting that pettiness may in some instances serve as a stronger relationship signal than actual benefits exchanged. Attentiveness to trivial details of resource exchanges... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

health care professionals, physicians are challenged to minimize the likelihood of errors that could harm patients while simultaneously making efforts to understand the causes of illnesses and develop better ways to prevent, treat, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

Principles Harvard Business School Module Note 607-068 Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607068 Truman and the Bomb Summary: Balancing Benefits and Harms Harvard Business School Module Note... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

slow or even shift into reverse, but without disastrous consequences. “Higher rates would moderate the froth in the market,” says Furber, who sees no harm in knocking out players who depend too much on easy credit. “An upward movement in... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

and fail-safe it is, and how responsive and convenient it is. Employers expect better outcomes, and of course they and patients want fewer errors and fewer patients harmed by care that was intended to cure their disease. Finally, all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008

those remarkable circumstances in which people see no evil in others' unethical behavior. Specifically, we explore 1) the motivated tendency to overlook the unethical behavior of others when we recognize the unethical behavior would harm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

novel experimental design. In line with predictions, we find that information on the popularity of policy choices is beneficial when a minority of voters is biased but harmful when a majority is biased. In theory, information on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

exercising discretion. Doctors tend to deviate more, and deviations tend to be less detrimental with experience, yet deviations remain harmful even for high levels of experience. Moreover, doctors tend to deviate to follow two common... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

Workers By: Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor Abstract—While there has been a lot of research on finding and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers who are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

Abstract—This paper considers some of the large changes in the Federal Reserve's approach to monetary policy. It shows that, in some important cases, critics who were successful in arguing that past Fed approaches were responsible for mistakes that caused View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

crucial to the subsequent response of those on the receiving end. "We define a necessary evil as a work-related task that requires a person to cause physical, emotional, or material harm to another human being in order to advance a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

“Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance.” Less obviously, the drives to comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

“Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's performance.” Less obviously, the drives to comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

knowledge work and reveals the challenges inherent in manipulating network structure to enhance performance, as the communication structure that helps one antecedent of successful problem solving may harm the other. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) Investment Management was contemplating an introduction of hedge funds at the firm, but many believed that typical hedge fund manager pay (20% of the upside) would harm the MFS culture, which... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino