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- 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007
at least 3 decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along 4 basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy, and (4) board governance. We argue that civil society View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
agglomerating (e.g., universities, government). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-003.pdf Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization Authors:Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael L.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
looking for new ways to solve it" and suggested that the phenomenon applies to organizations as well as individuals. In Steve Sheinkopf's opinion, "Denial is only part of the problem; not understanding your capabilities and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant information) and lying by commission (the active... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment intensity"—that is, the number of a firm's employees relative... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
think there's a movement away from maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence, and toward a growing recognition that companies are economic institutions that provide benefits to many constituents in the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Attractive to Fair Trade and Eco-labeling Organizations By: Sippl, Kristin Abstract—This paper probes extant theory on product diversification in the empirical realm of fair trade and eco-labeling View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
organizations. One set of activities shown to improve organizational learning of new work practices is learn-how. Learn-how refers to learning activities that combine experimentation, adaptation-in-use, and staff participation (e.g., dry runs). This paper proposes that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
disguise their character, their traits are recognizable to others. Character is on display as leaders structure their organizations and go about making decisions. Some prefer to be intimately involved in the decision process. Others... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
Political and Social Systems. Every country's political system affects its product, labor, and capital markets. In socialist societies like China, for instance, workers cannot form independent trade unions in the labor market, which... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated with career penalties in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10
trading volume, and more dispersion in analyst forecasts following the calls. Further, the capital market's response to linguistic complexity is limited to firms for which there is greater demand for English-language conference calls. Our results highlight that when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Beginning Makes Ethics Salient and Decreases Dishonest Self-reports in Comparison to Signing at the End Authors:L. Shu, N. Mazar, F. Gino, M. Bazerman, and D. Ariely Publication:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (forthcoming) Abstract Many written View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them to do that by drawing four types of boundaries: around teams of people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract This article identifies five problematic issues in the intersection of work and life that create human resource challenges for organizations and their employees.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
Unlimited Potential is a robust strategy for the company and if so, how the company should organize and execute to achieve its mission. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508072 Prediction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
courses were general and descriptive ("Economic Resources of the United States," "Railroad Organization and Finance") and taught primarily through lectures from the economist's point of view. The situation remained... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present Firms and Global Capitalism By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne