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  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

one night a year when you meet the teachers. I had been at the board meeting that day. I was going to be at the board meeting the next day. But it was the dinner that posed a problem, and I said, "Lou, I'll do whatever you want, but this is the View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

psychological and organizational sciences, we argue that engaging in future-oriented thinking about specific work goals while commuting, what we call work-related prospection, positively influences job... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

research: How do you help experts help novices?” Researchers refer to the problem as the "curse of knowledge." Zhang is on a mission to break the curse. In her research on the psychology of rediscovery, she's looking into how experts can... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

firms to alleviate capital constraints and increase capital expenditures. Yet we also find instances in which governments use their minority positions to intervene in the management of firms, especially in natural resource industries.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

in times of need?” Business networks form In this sense, the experience created intergenerational ties, supplementing those formed among camp internees. These bonds proved useful to Germans in finding new positions and receiving... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • Article

Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century

By: Tom Nicholas
This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions
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  • November 2007 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Excerpts from Interview with Jim Triandiflou, Founder of Ockham Technologies

By: Noam Wasserman
Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing and Advisory Boards; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Conflict Management
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  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

who are at the very top of the ability distribution (non-superstars), react positively to increased competition from superstars. For them, we find some evidence of increased effort and no increase in errors of logic, consistent with both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

collection look at how to improve decision making, encouraging employees to speak up, and the difficulty of coordinating communication in a complex organization. Enjoy! Most Popular Articles 2000-2010 Creating a Positive Professional... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

as an imperial power. Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9952.html August 2013 American Economic Review Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia By: Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field, and Jean Lee Abstract—We View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

Ramarajan Publication:In Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by Laura M. Roberts and Jane E. Dutton. Psychology Press, 2009 Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 4, 2016

powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related negatively to announcement returns and View Details
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

observers rate those who reveal even questionable behavior more positively (experiments 4A and 4B). The negative impact of hiding holds whether opting not to disclose unflattering (drug use, poor grades, and sexually transmitted diseases)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

because of the potential positive effects on a company's bottom line. "By basing decisions on performance rather than uninformative stereotypes," Bohnet says, "instead of hiring who you think is the most productive person,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 03 Jan 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

of the book, in discussing the importance of self-knowledge, it is posited that judgment capability (my italics) is a function of experience. At the risk of oversimplification, according to the authors, good judgment is characterized as a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

the position and then rely on their own extensive personal networks to identify the majority of candidates. Only when this phase has been completed does the headhunter assemble general background information, initiate candidate contacts,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

purchase interest. Specifically, building on the psychology of disclosure and trust, we posit that cost transparency, insofar as it represents an act of sensitive disclosure, fosters trust. In turn, this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman