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  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

tendency towards negative recency when outcomes are experienced that disappears when the same outcomes are presented all at once. Experiment 2 examines a boundary condition where outcomes are presented sequentially in an automatic fashion... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities By: Kanter, Rosabeth M., Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein, and Ryan Raffaelli Abstract—How do strategic leaders create change-adept organizations? Based on qualitative field research, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

and context. By afternoon, 28 teams in the business and social venture tracks will be named semifinalists. A later round of judging will narrow the field to nine finalists, with the winners to be announced just over two weeks later. First... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 11 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

difference shrank by 2 percentage points. In addition, minority borrowers were 1.7 percentage points more likely to default than white borrowers working with the same white loan officer. That figure “all but” disappeared when the loan... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

need to get the wrong people off the bus, but what about the need to avoid putting the wrong people on the bus in the first place? As Capital One's CEO, Richard Fairbank, put it several years ago, "At most companies, people spend 2... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

winter. We suggest that the presence of membership fees can lead consumers to infer a "fees -> savings" link, spurring them to increase their spending independent of the actual savings afforded by such clubs. Using both field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

found to be associated with the ability to attract specialized solvers with range of diverse scientific interests. Furthermore, successful solvers solved problems at the boundary or outside of their fields of expertise, indicating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

interpretation of sarcasm lead to greater creativity because they activate abstract thinking. Studies 1 and 2 found that both sarcasm expressers and recipients reported more conflict but also demonstrated enhanced creativity following a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

2 console. The game concept was simple but groundbreaking. Standing in front of the EyeToy camera (which sits unthreateningly on top of the TV), users place themselves into the game, appearing "inside" it on the television.... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

have received the alternative pay rate. Lower pay rates increased cheating when the prospect of a higher pay rate was salient. Experiment 2 illustrates that this effect is driven by the ease with which poorly compensated participants can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

employees of a health benefits administrator that held a free workplace influenza vaccination clinic. Results: A 2 SD increase in functional proximity is associated with a 6.4 percentage point increase in the probability of vaccination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

between religiosity and pro-social behavior. To help overcome this divergence, we hypothesize that pro-social behavior is linked not to religiosity per se, but rather to the salience of religion and religious norms. We report on a field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

4,000 firms across 12 countries in Europe, North America, and Asia. We find that competition does indeed seem to foster greater decentralization. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-052.pdf Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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 behavioral decision research... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal American town—from building roads to ensuring food safety—increased trust in government and support for government services. Study 2 (N=21,786) leveraged View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

productivity of EHR use and delegation. We then explored the interaction between these 2 strategies and the role of practice size. Results: Greater EHR use and greater delegation were independently associated with higher levels of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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