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  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

taxation. This paper analyzes the role of information for tax enforcement in the case of the Value Added Tax (VAT) through two randomized field experiments with over 400,000 Chilean firms. Claims that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 20 Mar 2013
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How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

Capitalism. "I thought perhaps 30 students would sign up [for the course], but I got more than 300, roughly half the second-year class," she said. "Students are looking for hope. They are afraid they're going to have to put on the suit, make money, and conform. Success... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

explain service performance. This paper provides a brief retrospective of some of this research and illustrates the directions that this work will take in the future through the vehicle of a field study conducted by the author. The study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15023 Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In settings ranging from product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Feb 2009
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What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

such practices. Ethnographers spend extended periods of time in the field and therefore see or are told by informants what others might miss. At the same time, a limitation is that we cannot quantify what we observe. “To date, I have not... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

consider new products, even though innovative, because they were content with their current suppliers? The researchers also tested the specific difficulties faced by African Americans in breaking up existing buyer-supplier relationships. The researchers conducted a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

  Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United States. The field was developed by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

sentiment, the researchers conducted six lab experiments in which participants answered questions about a simulated website of a fashion retailer selling T-shirts. The research also included a field study of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

that as the same customers gain more experience with online DVD rentals, the extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that present bias has a meaningful impact on choice in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors. Lawrence’s professional work was rooted in an aspiration to do... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

cumulative innovation. To make progress towards understanding implications of such policy changes we devised a large-scale field experiment in which 733 subjects were divided into matched independent... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

of M&A activity must take place; mandatory public reporting must be required documenting experience and outcome information based on defined standards (just as the SEC requires reporting of certain information); and Medicare pricing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 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 isolate the effect of gender on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

Publications August 2013 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment By: Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and Scott Lee Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

and focus groups with booksellers, authors, and publishers, and scoured 30 years of news articles to understand how bookstores have phoenixed themselves from the ashes. He even attended a course on how to open an independent bookstore. “As a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 03 Jan 2017
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5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

Norton conducted a field experiment in which employees at a large corporation had the opportunity to exercise on slow-moving treadmills attached to standing desks. The goal of the employees: To get in shape... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

LISH team: LISH has longstanding interest in and experience with solving problems in computer vision, image analysis, and advanced analytics through crowdsourcing. We have extended our work and research into the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

organizational networks, and new avenues of sustainable business growth. Providing comprehensive coverage of the field of management, the encyclopedia spans fourteen subject volumes providing a landmark work of reference for scholars,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

  Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of collective View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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