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- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
developing employees by figuring out their passions, giving them relevant experiences to help them become more marketable, and helping them on their way when they are ready to exit. Companies can then benefit from an influx of... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar asked a partner at a top consulting firm whether he would recommend that a bright, young... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
to the aviation reward, the X PRIZE Foundation is offering similar carrots for breakthroughs in sequencing the human genome, designing fuel-efficient cars, and even reaching the moon. And the US government is View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
important later on the experiment (unconscious thought), or to perform the task while believing the experiment had ended (control condition). Afterwards, sequence memory and intrusions of the film were... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
daily two-hour window every weekday as their ideal exercise time. The researchers randomly assigned participants to one of three study conditions: Routine. Researchers paid these participants only if they worked out for 30 minutes during their View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
attractiveness led to a 36 percent increase in pitch success. But for female entrepreneurs, their looks had no apparent effect on the success of their pitches. The second study was an experiment designed to... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
2002 he was CEO of Philips China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He pointed to Unilever's early experience in China as a cautionary tale. Unilever had done well selling high-end soap products elsewhere, but in China it had a difficult time... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three prior industries. We hypothesize and find first, that prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
firms’ information environment by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a reduction in litigation risk resulting from the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank. I first show that the ruling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
Leader(ship) Development Harvard Business School Note 408-064 Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students to their upcoming View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
way. Publisher's link: http://www.amacombooks.org/book.cfm?isbn=9780814434093 Forthcoming Journal of Public Economics No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery. By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical measure, a substantially increased interest rate, has no effect on the vast majority of participants. A second experiment is designed to unbundle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
contrast, reports an experiment designed to meaningfully pose the question: "how good an approximation does a theory provide on average." It focuses on a class of randomly selected games, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market Authors:Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate two competing views of the role of financial service intermediaries in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
and England (Joseph Ramsey). Several respondents pointed out, however, that the benefits of deregulation are less obvious to consumers than its failures. The latter include short-term dislocations of demand-and-supply patterns and the confusion consumers View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
lead to reduced economic productivity subsequent to exposure to temptation. Using a design inspired by the classic "Marshmallow Test," we report data from a field experiment in which children... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Will you ever again step onto a crowded elevator without hesitation? Reach for a doorknob without concern (or gloves)? Easing social distancing restrictions might reopen businesses, but as long as memories of COVID-19 lockdowns are still fresh in people’s minds, the... View Details