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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of patients with low-risk prostate cancer. Our novel approach offers a framework to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
possible. Again, Thyssen realized that information and oversight was more critical for managing a large-scale enterprise than his personal interventions. Constant personal interventions from above lame personal initiative and hinder quick... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
to call out perhaps two or three states that are doing some interesting, compelling things, certainly Texas on data systems, on employer alignment, some of the things they’ve done with how they fund technical colleges and community colleges. Virginia around targeted... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Harvard Business School Note 706-044 Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from government agencies, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
time recorded was used to obtain estimates for physician documentation time on both control (no scribe) and intervention (scribe) shifts. Results: Control shifts yielded approximately 3 hours of documentation time per 8 hours of clinical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
government relations is part of the inner circle. You can look at Turkcell and see it as a typical emerging-market story. Government intervention is everywhere. Regulators even set prices, service by service. The competition is tightly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
explore interventions at the individual level and focus on recognized cognitive barriers from behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
WalkRoundsTM—Based Intervention Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
at the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. They specialize in understanding the antecedents and outcomes of mistreatment and injustice in organizations, as well as interventions for more effective prevention... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
assessment system focused on organizational values. We find a counterintuitive result: the intervention drove even higher effort on dimensions of short-term financial performance associated with preexisting monetary incentives but did not... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to intellectual property to health care.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
reducing social costs requires the intervention of a centralized institution. Surprisingly little work has considered what happens in between—when transaction costs exist but recourse to hierarchical institution is barred. This paper uses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the Roosevelt administration engineered... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
entrepreneur) did not study interventions to change this bias—which was as prevalent among female investors as among male investors—but she hopes the findings will spark conversations about how to change the disparity. “The first step is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
and pairs researching similar clinical areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system. At the same time, even a brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
demonstrates the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of an intervention even without perfectly predicting a firm’s response still has enormous value for setting policy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55959... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
patterns with the calorie labeling present. These findings highlight the potential importance of portion control interventions that specifically activate consumers' self-control. Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory Author:Michael Beer Publication:In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Emerald Group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne