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- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
with Stanford University Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor Sinan Aral of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and two LinkedIn employees and recent Stanford and MIT Ph.D. graduates Karthik Rajkumar and Guillaume Saint-Jacques,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
and MIT Sloan School of Management Dean Richard Schmalensee, which will come out from MIT Press next fall. I am working on several papers attempting to provide theoretical frameworks for studying some of the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
difference do angel investors make for the success and growth of new ventures? William R. Kerr and Josh Lerner of HBS and Antoinette Schoar of MIT provide fresh evidence to address this crucial question in entrepreneurial finance,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
Academy, on Job-Hopping Toward Equity, published recently in the MIT Sloan Management Review. A changing labor landscape The difference in pay that comes from job-hopping only helps to shrink—not eliminate—a longstanding gender pay gap,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing, authored by Hussam; Atonu Rabbani, an associate professor at the University of Dhaka; Giovanni Reggiani, then a doctoral student at MIT and now a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group; and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
Edward Freeman, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Harpercollins, 1984) Roland Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul (California University Press, 1998) H. Jeff Smith, “The Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Debate,” MIT Sloan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
at MIT during the late 1970s. "I began to ask myself why I didn't feel more satisfied even though I'd reached these goals and experienced these milestones after graduation. I also began to read more theoretical work on motivation and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
Wahlen of MIT Sloan—examine whether such “wisdom of the crowd” can beat the odds in predicting a blockbuster at a higher rate than the gut of an individual producer. "While some companies have used crowdsourcing as a way to make decisions... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
increasingly complex world? Will we need to turn increasingly to such things as quantitative models, "prediction markets" (where people bet on their views), the wisdom of crowds, and even such things as models based on "system dynamics" developed at... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
in the Global Economy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Harrison, Ann E., Rodriguez-Clare, Andres (2009), Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy, MPRA Paper 15561, Munich: 2009. Hausmann, Ricardo, Bailey Klinger (2008), Achieving... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
experimentation organization become the competitive gold standard? What do you think? References: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, The Power of Experiments: Decision Making In a Data-Driven World (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020)... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
MIT Sloan Management Review article, The Impossibility of Auditor Independence, which argued that “it is psychologically impossible for auditors to maintain their objectivity” and that “cases of audit failure are inevitable, even with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
inequality in job training. And yet the latter may account for much of the former. The MIT study forecasts a continuing mismatch between skills needed on the job and training opportunities for those who could provide them. Don’t overlook... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
congestion at airports and in the air. In Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management, a paper recently accepted for publication in Transportation Science and coauthored with Cynthia Barnhart of MIT and Dimitris... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
economies. It’s also testimony to a darker phenomenon. A recent study reported in MIT Sloan Management Review concludes that from April through September, the main reason for quitting in the US (10 times more important than compensation)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
Social Change Lab at Stanford University; Robb Willer, professor of sociology at Stanford University; Mohsen Mosleh, associate professor at the University of Oxford; Gordon Pennycook, associate professor at Cornell University; and David Rand, professor of management at... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA '01) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug research. "A number of the scientists decided that being part of a... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
at Harvard Business School who researches the evolution of peer-to-peer online platforms; and Andrei Hagiu, a visiting associate professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of... View Details
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
co-wrote with Lynn Pyun of MIT and B.Y. Cheon of Hanshin University and the Korea Labor Institute. Focusing on South Korea, the team interviewed scores of multinational and local executives to find out whether a firm could raise its... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
care,” and an MIT lecturer, who wants to test out expedient ways to combine the best aspects of big data and crowdsourcing. They will be reporting their progress for the next several weeks, inviting input from Bernstein, Christensen, HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel