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- 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3
disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Examples include the computer and telecommunication ecosystem, the health care ecosystem, and the global financial ecosystem. In the last ten years, ecosystems have emerged as an important form of economic organization, replacing the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
and the development of incremental tradeoffs towards radical moves to create new business models, new forms of satisfying needs that drastically reduce costs and/or raise value perceived by customers. One important enabler of new business... View Details
- 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 often use non-monetary awards to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18
Business School Case 313-064 Milwaukee (B5): James Godsil, Co-Founder, Sweet Water Organics No description available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-065 Milwaukee (B6): Michael... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Pomeranz says. To study them, the researchers formed groups of microentrepreneurs in Chile that were modeled on self-help groups like Weight Watchers to explore how participants could motivate each other to save more money each week.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
preparations for Harvard Business School's centennial celebration in 2008. Bower, Leonard, and Paine felt it important to identify key issues that HBS should focus on going into its next 100 years, so they organized a series of forums on... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly different architectures. Specifically, loosely coupled organizations will develop more modular designs than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
enormous strain on the 1.2 billion people living on a dollar a day or less. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and relief agencies are on the front lines of this global crisis, distributing food and other View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
In contrast, we find no increase in crimes against men or gender-neutral crimes. We also examine the effectiveness of alternative forms of political representation: large-scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
Consequences to Missing Quarterly Earnings Benchmarks Authors:Rick Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing quarterly earnings benchmarks, especially the analyst consensus earnings number, is associated with career penalties in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
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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
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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