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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Working PapersFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior Authors:Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Abstract While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
party, regardless of whether they are true—or even especially because they are untrue. “The theory is that the best way to signal your loyalty to your political party is to show that you’re willing to take outlandish stances that will brand you as a supporter.” The... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
come first. The authors have identified six common barriers to change: (1) unclear direction on strategy and values, which often leads to conflicting priorities; (2) senior executives who don't work as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
effect that is strongest when recalls are in the same product area as innovation activity. A one standard deviation increase in the number of proximate focal firm recalls implies more than a one-year delay in minor innovation. However, competitor firm recalls View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Alaskan Native communities at the time. A key question that interested Alsan and the researchers at Stanford was whether the representativeness of the study mattered for actual prescribing and use of new medicines. The group consulted Schwartzstein, a View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
communication levels in their paper, “Communication Within Firms: Evidence From CEO Turnovers,” published in Management Science. And when corporate communication breaks down, it can lead to confusion and stress, low morale, delayed... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
that year, Warner Bros. signed on as a lead investor in Uninterrupted. Were Carter and James right to partner with Warner Bros. in this manner? And with renewal negotiations just around the corner, how could they make the most of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
Dishonesty and Its Organizational Implications, she discussed several laboratory and field experiments meant to uncover factors that lead people to make unethical choices. "We seem to face this type of conflict at any given moment... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
traditional alternatives: vertically integrated firms, resellers, or input suppliers. These tradeoffs lead to a comprehensive discussion of the defining features of MSPs. The formal model we develop focuses on the MSP vs. vertical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
different from these cyclical patterns. In the book, we discuss how a confluence of factors—the changing sources of capital, the rise of intermediaries, and the growing concentration of investors dollars—is likely to lead to some... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
leverage during bad times. If refinancing-facilitated homeowner-equity extraction is sufficiently widespread—as it was during the years leading up to the peak of the U.S. residential real-estate market—the inadvertent coordination of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
http://hbr.org/product/experience-the-finger-lakes-the-groupon-partnership-decision/an/814010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-086 Learning From Extreme Consumers Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
Here's a cautionary tale of innovation woe: Nokia has consistently outspent Apple on phone-related research and development over the past decade, especially in the years leading up to the launch of Apple's iPhone. Between 2004 and 2007,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
theory on this important workplace behavior. Findings also suggest a profoundly asymmetrical relation between the intrapersonal motivations for and against speaking up, leading to a novel theoretical explanation for the prevalence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
insight into perceptions of the company's conduct among a large cross section of employees around the world, and to benchmark themselves against other leading companies. When the global financial crisis hit, the project View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
citizens could meet these kinds of calamities with ease and cool minds." Eric Schmidt echoed this call to action in commenting that "readiness is only achieved through practice." E. Hassen observed that "events cannot be predicted with a long View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
could lead to substantial growth.” But new research suggests that small businesses are far more fiscally conservative than banks realize. In fact, firms with up to 10 employees hold back spending on their revolving credit lines to create... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter