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- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
basketball fan and a sociologist, began looking at the NBA several years ago as an ideal field in which to study the insidious effects of discrimination. “Racial bias is really hard to measure,” Zhang says. In most business scenarios... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
the monetary incentives increased it by 13 percent. Combining the two interventions boosted the total by a small but statistically insignificant amount over the structured meetings alone. After the study period ended, however, something surprising happened. When the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
10-040, November 2009.) Abstract We survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. We highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of validated mental health scales in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
and layoffs. Questions that CEOs raised with us included: “What are best practices for digital terminations?” and “If the economy worsens and you have to consider reducing payroll, what’s the most effective way?” As we look ahead to what... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
many "multicultural marketing" efforts are both limited and limiting, and how firms can go beyond demographic data to craft effective strategies for selling to ethnic markets within the U.S. Read the Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
that its supply chain limps along. We believe the appreciation of these behavioral dynamics on supply chain management can provide the key to understanding and removing the many and oft-repeated examples of inefficiency that plague it. Examples of these inefficiencies... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
complexities of dealing with supply chain risks preclude measures that can reduce the risks. Here is some advice that can aid mitigation efforts companywide. Think strategically. Effective supply chain risk... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
their attitudes and perceptions, and those of their husbands." The study’s findings showed a clear uptick in women working outside the home, with the strongest results seen for women who were more socially constrained (women who at baseline had reported not... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public health and safety, critics see... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We need to do more team-based medicine and to better integrate specialty care with primary care. We need to be doing a better job measuring health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Facebook Computational Social Science Methodology Research Award . Edward McFowland III : Runner Up for the 2018 Best Paper Award at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Using Data-Mined Variables in Causal Inference Tasks: A Random Forest Approach to the View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
to troubleshoot the breakdown of an electric motor. This involved having to identify causes of the failure, produce remedial plans, and subsequently implement measures to fix the problem and undertake projects to prevent future failures.... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career
credentials and work experience, they split almost evenly between those focused on college matriculation and those offering career-focused models. Only 16 percent of applicants prioritize relationships with both educational institutions and employers. Moreover, few... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
prices and expand access to life-saving therapies,” she says. After college, Rabah joined the biotech company Sio Gene Therapies, where she had the opportunity to speak with parents of children with Tay-Sachs disease, an ultra-rare condition with no View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
capacity of different hospitals can be readily compared. As measurement and investment experts, FASB’s governors are capable of and motivated to fashion a standard that clearly addresses this issue. Their focus would be to protect the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Additionally, wearing a heavy backpack affected participants' behavior. Specifically, it led them to be more likely to choose healthy snacks over guilt-inducing ones and boring tasks over fun ones. It also led participants to cheat less. Importantly, self-reported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
but also whether they were doing so before dinnertime, critical to an effective intervention. (The idea for the hidden sensors came from a scene in Jurassic World in which one of the characters smuggles dinosaur embryos in a jury-rigged... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
ownership support of the business are just too important to ignore or take for granted. We also know that strong performance of the business, the ownership group, and the family depends on the effective leadership of each group. This... View Details