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  • 01 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

behavior and explore how they make a negotiator particularly vulnerable to ethical fading, resulting in subsequent unethical behavior. We discuss several opportunities for future research in the negotiation discipline and other disciplines that draw on motivated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an important role in explaining individual success in problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950 Author:Aldo Musacchio Publication:Business History Review 82, no. 3 (fall 2008): 445-473 Abstract This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These programs involve a number of different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

existing theory would predict. We discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

escalated. A Deloitte survey in 2010 of 131 financial institutions worldwide found that 79 percent had enterprise risk management programs in place or in progress, an increase of 20 percent from just two years earlier. And 86 percent had... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

and debunk the myth that behavioral and neoclassical economic perspectives need be in conflict. Cognitive, Affective, and Special-interest Barriers to Policy Making Authors:Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max Bazerman Publication:In View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2007 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

Bankinter: Deploying the Mortgage Simulator to the Branches

Describes how Bankinter, a mid-sized Spanish bank, altered the information set available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Banks and Banking; Mortgages; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Spain
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  • 21 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

neighborhoods. “It’s almost like a social movement,” says Raffaelli, who says indie bookstores are “anchors of authenticity in an ever-increasing digital and disconnected world.” The notion goes beyond a bond with customers to include... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

attracted criticism for its purely empirical approach, its failure to make consistently accurate predictions, and its pursuit of commercial objectives in a university setting. Harvard's efforts to build a forecasting service are an early chapter in the evolution of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and corporate social and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2008 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Affinity Plus (A)

By: Dennis Campbell and Peter Tufano
The executive team at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has pushed the concept of members first deeply throughout the organization, empowering employees to put member-owners' interests ahead of either the organization's interests or their own interests. As a result of... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans; Profit; Cooperative Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Strategy
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  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

attentional focus improves perceivers’ ability to judge group effectiveness. Finally, we find that perceivers with higher levels of social sensitivity are more accurate at judging group effectiveness. We discuss the implications of these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

of the Tobin Project, a nonprofit research institute focused on catalyzing scholarship on important governmental problems. “The question is how to do that. My teacher, the Nobel economist James Tobin, told me that it’s better to build our... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

repertoire of personal qualities, including qualities that run counter to conventionally masculine scripts. Our findings point to the mutability of masculine identity as a social status achievement and to how organizations can disrupt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

policy we consider concerns the level of future Social Security benefits. Specifically, we examine how an agent would respond to learning in advance whether she will experience a major Social Security... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War II era has become the dominant model for business schools in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Most observers looking at these institutions as they exist today,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

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