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The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions
By: Pierre Azoulay, Alessandro Bonatti and Joshua Lev Krieger
We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the citation rate to their earlier,... View Details
Azoulay, Pierre, Alessandro Bonatti, and Joshua Lev Krieger. "The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions." Research Policy 46, no. 9 (November 2017).
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
well understand that you don't know what you're doing. Christensen: If you look back in history at companies that have successfully launched new disruptive-growth businesses, with only a couple of exceptions they were run View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
To Nancy F. Koehn, the history of the Irish rock band U2 has it all as a business case study: teamwork, leadership, creative destruction, branding, and strategy. Koehn's case "Bono and U2", co-written with Katherine Miller and Rachel K.... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
is not profitable and yet continues to survive, he observed, is itself fascinating. "Never before in the history of any industrial transformation or revolution have we seen [the investment community] consistently sustain such losses... View Details
- 28 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India
Keywords: by Abhijit Banerjee & Lakshmi Iyer
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
effects" (Alex Evans). "It really doesn't matter whether the world is flat or not. Most value is added by the exploiters, not the creators, and that works in both (flat and non-flat) environments" (Gerald Nanninga). These... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
business," declared Nancy Koehn in her opening keynote talk at the conference. A historian, author, and Harvard Business School professor, Koehn drew on exciting moments from the history of women in business to offer her audience a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index... View Details
- January 2011 (Revised April 2023)
- Course Overview Note
The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview
By: Tom Nicholas
This is a course overview note for The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. CMC is chronologically organized. It starts in the late eighteenth century when America gained independence, spans the remarkable rise to industrial maturity during the nineteenth and twentieth... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Welfare; War; Transformation; Information Technology; Finance; Situation or Environment; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; United States
Nicholas, Tom. "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: Overview." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 811-033, January 2011. (Revised April 2023.)
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans
When we arrived in New Orleans after a long drive from Albuquerque, we were immediately struck by two things: the music—it’s literally on every corner—and the humidity, which is even more prevalent. Of course, the city’s culture and vibe... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
It took more than a century for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks thirty selected blue chip stocks, to hit 20,000, but it finally happened last Wednesday – a milestone marked by banner headlines and happy investors. In a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s
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Temporal View of the Costs and Benefits of Self-Deception
By: Zoe Chance, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely
Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which people go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to actively deceiving themselves. We find that those who exploit... View Details
Keywords: Hindsight Bias; Lying; Motivated Reasoning; Self-enhancement; Social Psychology; Perception; Performance Expectations
Chance, Zoe, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino, and Dan Ariely. "Temporal View of the Costs and Benefits of Self-Deception." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. S3 (September 13, 2011): 15655–15659.
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
article has changed minds, but I do hope it encourages people to open their minds to consider new possibilities. Things that were once seen as relatively safe are now understood as likely to be quite dangerous, such as coal burning's contribution to global warming... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
dairy worker on a rail stop in western Kansas, Eisenhower felt passionate about military history and football from a young age. He was determined to escape his father’s line of work in the local creamery and applied for officer training,... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the work of leaders. Leaders must instill confidence... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
economic and geopolitical scenarios. As an example, this book takes as a starting point the breakdown of old alliances caused by the end of the Cold War, and projects how the world will look in terms of alliances in 2010, 2015, and 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
example, he argues, fashion industry competitors could agree among themselves to collectively manage resources to reduce the water pollution caused by their manufacturing processes. The beef industry could agree to collaborate on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
Summing Up Judging from responses to the June column, big ideas rank high on a list including technology and intellectual property as sources of competitive advantage. But they are only a starting point, outweighed by methods and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett