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- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
began to take shape, one rooted in the awareness that you can't manage creativity—you can only manage for creativity. A number of themes emerged: The leader's job is not to be the source of ideas but to encourage and champion ideas. Leaders must tap the imagination of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
fraction of the applicants. Borrowers and platform employees have no personal interactions; no physical meetings, phone interviews, or web chats. The platform pre-screens loans based on the borrower’s information, and either accepts or... View Details
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
serve as the glue across functions and business units. But without clarity about strategy and the ability to articulate strategy, people can only pick up random, disconnected cues about priorities, and alignment is then hit-and-miss, especially when it comes to linking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
European countries where vacations are mandated, most employees take their prescribed amounts of time off. In America, where vacation time is not mandated, roughly half of workers last year had vacation time left over and failed to take... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
directly, why then do managers (irrationally) choose to pursue profit directly rather than indirectly? I think the answer is to be found more in psychology than in economics." Does that account for the increasing interest in the field of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review literature from two separate bodies of literature. Research in psychology and organizational behavior on candidate-employer negotiations sheds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
earned on fixed costs), the brick-and-mortar retailer finds itself with shrinking margins. Online retailers' lower cost structures are driven by a variety of cost efficiencies. From an employee perspective, positions such as cashiers and... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
games with complete information. Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work Authors:Jennifer Kish Gephart, James R. Detert, Linda K. Trevino, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Research in Organizational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above brand managers in the firm. These findings are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing different parts. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Startups-Best-Blog-Posts/dp/1449367879 2006 Journal of Economic Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
2011) Abstract Organizational culture-the shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that determine "how we do things around here"-can be measured and shaped. In organizations with large numbers of customer-facing employees, it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
produces slower learning in human subjects than the standard second price auction mechanism. Our results also serve to highlight differences in behavior between simulated agents and human bidders that mechanism designers should take into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Transparency Trap By: Bernstein, Ethan Abstract—To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield more-transparent employees. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
"misbehavior," as the researchers term it, behavior that is largely unseen by the advertisers or even the affiliate networks themselves. Since they are only paid if a purchase is made, these websites use technology to convince—some... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I develop for understanding the drivers of this behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace