Attributions - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Oct 2015
News

Balancing Progress and Preservation

Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) attributes his love of architecture to weekend outings with his father. “I grew up in Nassau County, Long Island, where there was a master craftsman named José Allegue who built distinctive single-family... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

one of two conditions. In the “similar” condition, they learned that the two widgets shared four out of five attributes in common; in the “dissimilar” condition, the widgets shared only one attribute. In both conditions, Jane always chose... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

are ascribed to be friendly, emotional, and unselfish, attributes that seem inconsistent with larger societal beliefs about what a leader must be, such as assertive, self-confident, and entrepreneurial (which are traditionally seen as... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

the New England Patriots to a thriving family business. In the process, he’s had a tremendous impact on the Boston community. As a kid growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kraft dreamed of going to business school, and he attributes... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

business was virtually absent. She attributed this to feminist historians being almost embarrassed that women were in business. Business was often characterized as a "capitalist patriarchy" that gained power by making women a... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

route, but working with contractors can be a black hole of time and capital. In contrast, technical founders can enhance velocity, an important attribute of successful startups, and accelerate attaining product-market fit (which is... View Details

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

to a major airline, and we saved them about 240 flight cancellations and 40 diversions. That alone is worth around $20 million.” Indeed, weather has an enormous impact on the economy. According to the National Weather Service, between 3 and 6 percent of variability in... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

Profile

Raymond Hwang

the problem and a surgical plan to address it. Your job is to execute that plan with as little variation as possible. The ‘same way, every time’ is the mantra of the surgeon. Once the operation begins, however, the unique attributes of... View Details

Keywords: Services; Entrepreneurship; Health Care

01 Dec 2013
News

Batteries and Chocolates

striptease parties; male faculty would occasionally and good-naturedly attribute female faculty members' teaching ratings to their physical features. It didn't really bother me, to be honest, and I settled quite happily into my own female... View Details

Keywords: Spar, Debora; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

drop of around one-third of the total weekly sales across the album and its associated songs is directly attributable to people switching to buy music online. And it might be helpful to point out that my model controls for any trends in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

is not always possible and suggests an alternative approach. First, when teams discuss what we call "hot topics," substantive disagreements (task conflict) tend to trigger negative attributions about others' motives or abilities... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

students examine the favorable and unfavorable attributes of the White Stone offer, especially as it relates to the unique situation of the protagonists. Additionally, the financial terms of the offer are compared to the terms of similar... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

a college’s academic and nonacademic attributes available to students, how do these scandals affect their applications? To investigate, we construct a dataset of scandals at the top 100 U.S. universities between 2001 and 2013. Scandals... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

take. Where organizational conversation flourishes, it involves up to four elements. These elements reflect the essential attributes of interpersonal conversation, and likewise they reflect the classic distinguishing features of a... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

frequently, men expressed gratitude for their partners lightening a shared domestic load. Men’s resentment most often centered on the quantity or quality of labor their partner expected of them. They also resented “having to guess” about those expectations, which they... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any capital market benefits observed for UK-domiciled firms are more likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e.,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed... View Details

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

buyers. However, this is a challenge as RFH is a cooperative owned by the growers themselves. Currently, 70% of their products are certified, but this is largely attributable to the 25% of the larger growers who have the resources to... View Details

12 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Electric Mobility in India

its expanded production capacity of over 400,000 units. With 1,600 employees, the facility hosts two vehicle lines and three battery lines. Ather's success in the market, amid customer uncertainty, can be attributed to their focus on... View Details

25 Jan 2016
News

Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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