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- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
success factors for managing business experiments at the “incubation moment,” which appear to improve the prospects of success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52307 forthcoming Strategy Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
about what Madhav should do next. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110001-PDF-ENG An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance—2009 Update Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia Jr. Harvard Business School Note 210-061 Provides an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
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
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
similarity-attraction paradigm, social-categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust their overseas partners differently depending on the partners' cultural ethnicity. In a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
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
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
apps for frontline employees to contain the pandemic. The experience will like reshape the entire health care industry for years to come. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Health Care Initiative at Harvard Business School how... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Qualitative Analysis, edited by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu. Stanford University Press, forthcoming Abstract This chapter assesses the contribution of contemporary qualitative research on Southeast Asia to the field of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
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
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial knowledge. Financial experiences are the participants' reported experiences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
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
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
using different methods (two experiments and a survey) indicate an inverted-U shaped relationship between degree of decision latitude and leadership effectiveness perceptions. The increase in leadership effectiveness perception between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
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
- 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
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne