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- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
We close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the sixth of six... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
successfully alone. The risks are too high. I would ask them first to call a meeting of CEOs of major MNCs concerned with global poverty and explore the idea of establishing the World Development Corporation, proceeding experimentally and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
wills to a search for fairness principles. Fisher did not create knowledge of the deductive, experimental kind most common in social science research. Yet Roger and his colleagues developed frameworks of aphorisms that, on average,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore how organizations learn inferentially in dynamic environments, where active View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
higher utility (or satisfaction), higher execution effort (or motivation), faster coordination, less influence activities, and more communication, but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Dissonance Authors:R. Barkan, S. Ayal, F. Gino, and D. Ariely Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (forthcoming) Abstract Six studies demonstrate the "pot calling the kettle black" phenomenon whereby people... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Experimentation In August 2017, Commonwealth Bank of Australia was looking for ways to differentiate itself from competing banks and was also trying to improve the financial well-being of its customers. One domain where this was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
is accentuated when people engage in a holistic processing style, whether measured as an individual difference (Study 5A) or experimentally induced (Study 5B). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55670... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
interactive control systems. The module discusses how top managers use the levers of control to inspire commitment to the organization’s purpose, stake out the territory for experimentation and competition, coordinate and monitor the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
learn if a standardized and institutionalized organizational learning process like SFP can enhance dynamic capabilities. The SFP model is illustrated with an application to Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division. 2006 Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
feel and be much compelled to shore up the core strengths of government. Our federal government must deliver with competence and strong coordination on all of its basic functions, especially these days. It also must find ways to be View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
desire to appear prosocial and not to appear greedy—relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Experimental results support this possibility. Individuals with past histories of volunteering are less likely to volunteer if their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
relationships we identified in our case studies hold up across different teams and platforms. We are also planning to conduct some experimental studies to further examine the conditions that foster changes in masculine identity... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
of formal authority, but limited it with democratic mechanisms that enabled experimentation with shifting conceptions of authority over time. When members settle on a shared conception of authority, it is more expansive than their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
markets also plays a causal role in shifting investments to more novel startups-by lowering the cost of experimentation for early stage investors and allowing them to make riskier, and more novel, investments. Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
describes a growing experimental literature that suggests how perceived ethics surrounding transactions with multiple partners can encourage misbehavior. It is noted that causing harm indirectly through another can protect harm doers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
monitoring" and entirely absent in those with "tight monitoring." The results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne