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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
and community norms substantially constrain EURid's approach, preventing the use of the most natural economic mechanisms (such as auctions). Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908052 Opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
last spring. But for Gisholt and Minard, the satisfaction of running a business continues to be worth it, despite the logistical complications that can arise around raising a family when long hours are more the norm than the exception.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
FRM to the study of managerial compensation. We conclude that the FRM provides an improved methodological approach to the study of bounded dependent variables. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49493 Bureaucratic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
country-level factors that limit firms' use of selective disclosure by intensifying scrutiny on them and by diffusing global norms to their headquarters countries. We test our hypotheses using a novel panel dataset of 4,750 public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
the norms of science. It's an ironic and fascinating time to study technology, science, and invention. In some ways the processes of invention in firms are moving towards an open science model. For example, Novartis and the Broad... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
real good data, maybe at all. And to the degree that we have it, in ways that are so aggregated that it's kind of meaningless. It is these normed averages that don't mean a whole lot. What we're hoping to do is to take the data that's... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number of structural changes that forced an ongoing re-examination and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
difficult because of their varied interests and often-conflicting definitions of success. Culture consists of the norms and behaviors in the organization—in other words, everyone's shared understanding of "how things work around... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
other’s behavior. Closed doors that are usually open, whispers where voices usually ring out, Louboutins instead of Danskos on a Friday, diplomas taken off the office wall—these deviations from the norm used to register. In the absence of... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Extensions address screening and signaling in hiring, the effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
attention to strategy-driven forms of accountability that can help them to achieve their missions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-069.pdf Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the popular choice. Our findings are consistent with optimal distinctiveness and middle-status conformity theories and have implications for designing normative marketing campaigns. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
hypothesize that obligation toward others would follow the norms of both direct and indirect reciprocity. Direct reciprocity predicts that obligation toward network members increases to the extent that one receives resources directly from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
capabilities, competitive actions, and customer buying behaviors. 3. As a result of this lack of leadership, a channel and its norms become deeply embedded as the primary way of reaching customers. Even when a channel gets a leader, it is... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
by a punishing cycle of overwork, whether studying for college entrance exams or following the “996” norm of working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week. “I will slack off at work I am a blunt sword to boycott consumerism,” declared a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
based on their intuitions and gut feelings. Soltes provides insights into why some executives saw the immediate effects of misconduct as positive, why executives often don’t feel the emotions (angst, guilt, shame) most people would expect, and how acceptable View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
prided themselves on their sustainable fishing practices, which were not the historical norm for the industry; here, again, translating these practices into increased willingness to pay was a challenge. As background, the case also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
categories. Such comparability and equivalence of attributes makes it easier for consumers and other market participants to judge the relative value of the goods within the category based on shared assumptions of what is normative for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
million property that generates $100,000 in cash flow would have a cap rate of 10 percent.) Historically, the cap rate for commercial real estate has averaged 9 percent. As property prices soared in the 1980s, cap rates sank to between 5 percent and 6 percent. After... View Details