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  • April 2018
  • Article

Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices

By: Rellie Derfler-Rozin, Bradford Baker and F. Gino
In this paper, we explore referral-based hiring practices and show how a referrer’s power (relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Ethics; Perception
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Derfler-Rozin, Rellie, Bradford Baker, and F. Gino. "Compromised Ethics in Hiring Processes? How Referrers' Power Affects Employees' Reactions to Referral Practices." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 2 (April 2018): 615–636.
  • 2016
  • Article

The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence, and Exceptions

By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical dependencies in the work being performed. This article presents a unified picture of... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Mirroring Hypothesis; Organization Design; Conway's Law; Knowledge Boundaries; Relational Contracts; Open Source Software; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Boundaries; Knowledge Management; Applications and Software
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Colfer, Lyra J., and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence, and Exceptions." Industrial and Corporate Change 25, no. 5 (2016): 709–738. (Lead Article.)
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice

By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Travis Welch
We study the role of executive functional background in explaining management discretion in financial reporting. Taking goodwill impairment as our reporting setting, we focus on top executives (CEOs and CFOs) whose employment history includes experience in investment... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Goodwill Accounting; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Managerial Roles; Agency Theory
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Brochet, Francois, and Kyle Travis Welch. "Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-088, February 2011. (Revised November 2011.)
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

leap, surging forward with plans without taking the time to realize that the base assumption of the business plan is wrong. They believe they can predict the future, rather than try to create a future with their customers. Entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Models of optimal experience (flow)

Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2021
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In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 08 Aug 2022
  • HBS Case

Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

since. Some analysts predicted that the band would do more to grow South Korea’s gross domestic product over 10 years than the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Underdogs with a strategy The band’s explosion was the result of a carefully... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

that addresses part of that challenge—with a particular focus on predicting customer churn. However, several other equally important aspects of managing retention have not received similar level of attention, leaving many managerial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies and workers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

data, the algorithm learns to predict the outcome from the input data. Unsupervised learning. In this case, using unlabeled data, the algorithm learns the inherent structure from the input data. Either machine learning approach is only as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Jan 2023
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After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

rating agencies. High-profile failures of the agencies to predict catastrophes, like the Enron and WorldCom scandals, caused “everyone to wonder, ‘Where were the credit rating agencies?’” Sikochi explains. “Our paper answers the question,... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 23 Sep 2015
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Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

personal experience and observation. When asked to imagine receiving a promotion at work, women predicted a higher level of negative outcomes than men did. ©iPhoto “We wondered if women may think about things that men don’t,” says Brooks.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous strides in predicting financial market crashes, panics, and crises. Participants left this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

  • 03 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Michael Schwarz; Publishing
  • 04 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

Keywords: by Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky & Yu Zheng
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

No Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore & Max H. Bazerman
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A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings (with Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal)

The NCAA college football ratings, in which the so-called national champion is determined, has been plagued by controversies the last few years. The difficulty arises because there is a need to make a complete ranking of teams even though each team has a different... View Details
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