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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services as well as information that assesses the relative value delivered by providers. Because the United States has competition in health care, we would expect to see improving value, but we see just the opposite. Value-based... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
worldwide establishment dataset, we investigate both the significance and causes of multinational firm co-agglomeration. In contrast to the conventional emphasis of the literature on the role of input-output linkages, we assess the effect of various agglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Harvard Business Review Putting Sales at the Center of Strategy By: Cespedes, Frank Abstract—Research indicates that relatively few firms execute their strategies effectively, and, on average, companies deliver just 50% to 60% of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China, can be similarly broken down.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
effect of greater rivalry dominates for less uncertain problems whereas the effect on the extreme value prevails for more uncertain problems. Adding competitors thus systematically increases overall contest performance for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
screens is a relevant difference. In fact, our study empirically supports the widely held assumption that the U.S. is overscreened and key foreign markets are underscreened. This difference has consequences for the relative power of... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
events—and what procedures and practices will aid in their ability to do so? Obviously, extreme events—events that are in scope or scale or type beyond the range of our ordinary experience and expectations—by definition will occur only View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
a charity, in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with relatively muted targeting behavior. When individuals earn money for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
that exchange. Hand-collected data show that 80% of cross-listed firms opt out of at least one exchange governance rule, instead committing to observe the rules of their home country. Relative to firms that comply, firms that opt out have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability and implications of online discount vouchers, a relatively new marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
of perspectives that teams can draw upon to innovate, meta-analyses of the team-diversity literature have found weak or inconsistent support for that assumption. These studies also have typically examined effects of team diversity in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
and Sara Moore, who connected the dots between neural activity and success in the music industry. In a seminal lab experiment, teenagers listened to a series of new, relatively unknown songs while lying inside an fMRI machine. The... View Details