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- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
surgical procedures. In-process analyses that allow rapid feedback to the surgeon based on surrogate markers may provide a powerful method for quality improvement. Methods: The authors reviewed performance data from all bilateral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
heavy premium on class participation. Beyond grading, students also receive regular feedback from professors about the quantity, quality, and constructiveness of their comments. The Habit Of Decision Making Third, and perhaps most... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6
popular developmental tools, such as 360-degree feedback and networking; reinterpret them through the lens of women's experiences in organizations; and revise them in order to meet the particular challenges women face when transitioning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Meta-analyses of published studies show that those ideas are myths—men and women actually have similar inclinations, attitudes, and skills. What does differ is the way they are treated on the job: Women have less access to vital information, get less View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
response in receiver actions after learning that they were profitably deceived. Despite the change in receiver behavior, stated beliefs about sender strategies remain insufficiently skeptical, which suggests that while direct and immediate View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
(treadmills attached to desks that enable employees to walk while working), provided employees with feedback on their own and their co-workers' usage, and assessed usage over six months. We report how we determined our sample size, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
a principle that behavioral economists now emphasize: the importance of salient feedback in affecting customer choice, especially when long-term costs of a purchase (health care, trucks) or one's behavior (eating, driving habits) are... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
simultaneous goals: eliciting liking (“Your speech was good ”) and conveying status (“ for a woman”). Backhanded compliments are common, from delivering feedback in work settings to communicating in casual conversation and take several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
find that transparency, by visually revealing operating processes to both producers and consumers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
sensitivity drive the effect of experience on choice behavior. The experiments are focused on repeated choice tasks where decision makers choose repeatedly between alternatives and get feedback after each choice. Experiments 1a and 1b... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
consistently, and providing frequent feedback to employees—grew 28% larger and were 10 percentage points less likely to fail than those who got advice from peers with a passive people-management approach two years after our intervention.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine-learning algorithms to evaluate the abilities of job seekers and provide feedback by measuring not only skills and knowledge, but also personality and behavior traits. Since its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
processes to consumers and beneficiaries to producers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50173 forthcoming Stanford... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
post-process off-line inspection to establish proof of quality. The area that is seeing a lot of growth is the in-process stage of volume manufacturing, where feedback control can help ensure that parts are made to specification. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Author:Stephen P. Kaufman Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008) Abstract After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its feedback on his performance. The chair of the compensation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
then she was passed over for promotion, receiving the feedback that her “concerning” and “abrasive” interpersonal style had made it impossible to promote her. Instead of a promotion, Lane is offered an executive coach. The case offers a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
to enable adaptation at a local level, focusing on results, and creating feedback and learning mechanisms. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-033 Turnaround at Norsk... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47436 The Logic of Agglomeration By: Duranton, Gilles, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This review... View Details