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- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
of their teams ” David Wittenberg would have YouTube look to its users for a solution to the dilemma. As he put it, ‘My preferred solution errs on the side of personal liberty and adds the element of information. I'd institute a rating... View Details
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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty
My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details
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Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
focus, always try to find the "right" answer. Organizations often prefer a "good enough" answer, providing it can be implemented effectively. Future leaders need to better understand the nuances of how to get things done and what they can... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
feel valued? The discussion will lead to considerations about the variation in individual reward preferences and how managers could embrace this diversity to foster an inclusive environment while driving performance. Digital Innovation... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
economically stressed areas where property values remain low, preferring instead to wait until someone else has taken the first-mover risk and values have begun to rise. These structurally disadvantaged areas—like West Baltimore Street,... View Details
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Current working papers
Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
work prestige. And in Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men, we discover, with regret, that VC prefers to give money to men—and good looking men at that. But sometimes business glory goes to those... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
Barasz’s new paper, “Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News,” which recently appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, documents this peculiar preference for worse-case scenarios in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
Both widgets could be described by five attributes: price, size, shape, function, and quality. (Participants received no information about what the widgets actually were.) Source: The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others’ View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Century Marked
business education in general." Pictured above: one of the association's early gatherings in Swampscott, Massachusetts, in June 1922—when a three-piece suit was presumably preferred beachwear. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
time in understanding how all this works. Here's a look at stories on some of those research areas and what they mean for becoming a better decision maker. Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men Studies reveal that investors View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
“If you are more of a risk taker, all things being equal, you are going to be more likely to engage in misconduct,” Minor says. "If you are more of a risk taker, all things being equal, you are going to be more likely to engage in misconduct" In Risk View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Taking the Long View
huge national debt. He prefers shares of companies such as Canada’s EnCana, Wal-Mart de Mexico, and Petróleo Brasileiro. “At least three-quarters of whatever I own is foreign stocks,” Gordon revealed. Former Goldman Sachs cochairman John... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing project in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “It’s activity that’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in-country executives. For country-specific products (such as baseball shoes in the United States), Adidas prefers using in-country designers rather than design teams working out of corporate headquarters. "It's a European style of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
outstanding educational experience, stimulating innovation and change in the MBA Program, and providing valuable experience and learning about program delivery." While the decision to discontinue the cohort system was based on a number of factors, the View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
same brand is offered in different countries with a different product formulation. Depending on the country, people usually wash clothes with hot or cold water, so the product formulation needs to be adapted, he said. Idiosyncratic customer View Details
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Erica Santoni
Being “the other” is a familiar feeling. At elementary school, I was the girl with glasses and unfashionable clothes.In high school, I was the introvert who preferred a book to a night out with friends.At University, I was the one... View Details