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- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
doesn't take much skill to bring out the worst in others. If you seem coy or duplicitous, they will have little reason to be forthcoming. Likewise, if you pounce on an admission of weakness, you'll teach people to be more guarded. The key... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Rethink What You 'Know' about High-Achieving Women By: Ely, Robin J., Pamela Stone, and Colleen Ammerman Abstract—On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to Harvard Business School's MBA program, the authors, who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
the waiting time to enter the ED increased by 26 minutes. We do not find any indications of improved performance on clinical metrics, with no statistical change in the number of admissions to the hospital or readmissions to the ED within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
Serum, that compared their own admission rates to their estimates of how likely they thought other researchers were to engage in and admit to the same practices. Higher scores were given to the admissions... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
system (largely intended to identify the attractiveness or special needs of a potential immigrant) used in Canada and some other countries.” Do you agree with David Wittenberg regarding the adoption of a Canadian-style system for sorting out talent for View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
soon mired in allegations and investigations of accounting misrepresentations and came crashing down on December 6, 2017 after admission of possible accounting irregularities. The case is set days after news broke out about the accounting... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration as one of the ways to keep the population base at its size or greater, and even better if that can be a skilled workforce." Bitter Debate Yet in the United States, specific policies and admission levels of skilled immigrants... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
the short list of potential character flaws.”She also recommended using a technique called values profiling in hiring imposters. In hiring, should we give self-confidence a greater weight than humility? What do you think? Original Article Have you ever felt that you... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, failing to consider the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs, discounting influence of easy grading standards? Researchers investigate the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
interest, the subject of the current research, is probably the tertiary reason. "I am hesitant to say schools choose to invest in athletics just because of the spillover effect into academics," Chung says. Why would sports success spark greater View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
might be taken in admissions to sort out the "bad apples," the primary responsibility of business schools is to provide a place where ethics and values can be discussed by all, rather than just those clearing some View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
Using data from Boston, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Our results illustrate that policies about precedence, heretofore underexplored, are inseparable from other aspects of admissions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
rules need enforcement.” The current Chinese-US trade negotiation provides a real-life test of these ideas. For example, there have been discussions about China phasing out ownership requirements over time that could reduce the amount of IP transfer as the price of... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
management in the future. Rahul Kamath commented, " the Moneyball generation is already with us. Here in India, being good in analytics is a kind of pre-requirement for admissions to B-schools." This raises an interesting set of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
celebrating the 50th anniversary of the admission of women into its MBA program. A few have made it into CEO positions at major corporations. More have founded and lead their own start-ups. They're coming along, in spite of the much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
"not intrinsically interested in business." It may account for evidence that students today are primarily interested in admission to, rather than study at, the elite business schools to enable them to join the best networks in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
goes on for the students and for me. Q: You're perennially honored for teaching excellence. What's your secret? A: Great students. Think of it: we have an admissions department for our customers. How many companies have that luxury? If... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
We prove that if a group of women employs truncation strategies or weakly successfully manipulates, then all other women weakly benefit and all men are weakly harmed. We show that our results do not appropriately generalize to the many-to-one college View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace