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  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

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 team effectiveness. In both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make... View Details
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

brought positive, statistically significant change to every cohort. In another case, the Friendship Public Charter School, a group of four traditional public schools and six public charter schools in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area, worked with consultants,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily as part of a research team were more engaged and satisfied with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

depose the longstanding Republican majority in the state legislature. Responding to citizen anger, as well as perennial calls for more banking capital, the Whigs drafted a novel "free banking" bill, which would override the established bank chartering View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and speculation (buying for resale). With diagnostic (but not with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

the resulting dual-process learning model experimentally, using a mixed-method design that combines two laboratory experiments with a field experiment conducted in a large business process outsourcing company in India. We find a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to explore novel, untested ideas over tweaking their earlier work, but heavy... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact, according to Jay Light, will not be as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

in optimization of supply chains and logistics. I think that for all of us, the order cycle provided a wonderful window through which to observe the intricate details of revenue management, cross-functional coordination, and profitability... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

subgroups can shape information sharing to create a hidden profile where there was none initially. Second, we describe how individual defection can weaken subgroup competition and, paradoxically, increase the chance that a team will View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

implications for the efficient targeting of social programs more generally. A key issue in this debate is whether higher purchase prices lead to more intensive product use and, therefore, greater health benefits. We present results from an experiment in Lusaka, Zambia,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

case permits the exploration of how and when companies in developing countries can leverage their domestic markets to build capabilities to serve global customers, by using their home market as a base for learning. The case is also View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

synergies as well as a recently added contingent value right (CVR) designed to “sweeten” the offer and decide how to respond. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-068... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2017
  • News

Going the Distance

12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop at age 11. As a teen, he began... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Community Investment

Whether through career choice, board membership, volunteerism, or philanthropic support, HBS graduates traditionally have shown a strong interest in giving something back to their communities. Taking this commitment a step further, the Class of 1973 has View Details
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

networks-communities of agents (people or firms) and the ties among them-on corporate behavior and governance. The empirically rich studies in the book are largely concerned with mechanisms for the emergence of governance networks rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

financial services. Its user-friendly interface is designed so that customers only need to fill out one application for all the products it offers. The services that Wingspanbank offers include checking and saving accounts, bill paying,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

provides one-stop shopping for financial services. Its user-friendly interface is designed so that customers only need to fill out one application for all the products it offers. The services that Wingspanbank offers include checking and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

inventing high-quality, cost-competitive products. One problem is that it's hard to tell when moving production far from R&D will do damage. To make that determination, we say that executives need to examine two things. The first is modularity, or the degree to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne