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- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
this way, maintain John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to win the support your idea needs to deliver valuable results. The key? Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers and obfuscators deploy time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
revealing but also because it came at a time of intense personal reflection: Christensen had just overcome the same type of cancer that had taken his father's life. As Christensen struggled with the disease, the question "How do you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
these two additional measurements, they may end up with trousers that fit them better. For retailers, the goal is to devise measures that capture the variability in people’s preferences well enough, while minimizing the number of... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings of Rakuten, she View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
work. Workers who prefer to work from home may find increased productivity, reduced commute time, and a lower quit rate because they are overall happier. For clients, this experience, together with investments made by the call centers... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice model yields... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
that coaches demonstrate less racial preference when their team is on a losing streak or in playoff games. More than any other American sport, basketball is dominated by African American players. Three-quarters of athletes running up and... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
give them the opportunity to build their businesses.” —Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) Back to top “Lisa Sherman” A successful executive at Verizon, Lisa Sherman is struggling with the decision to reveal her sexual orientation. After... View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored by advertisers, "The Army... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
Book of the Year and connected finance with the humanities. The book sets out to demystify finance and instill both curiosity and confidence, helping readers answer fundamental questions like: What do financial ratios reveal about a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
to publicly observable variables, then the bond market would only react to the release of these variables and not to the policy announcements. Stein and Sunderam posit that private information and preference for volatility smoothing of... View Details
- Web
Software Tools - Research Computing Services
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For detailed information about a specific "matlab" module (including how to load the modules) use the module's full name. For example: $ module spider matlab/R2020a... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at the College of the Holy Cross,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
First, individuals experience negative emotions when examining their own failures, and this can chip away at self-confidence and self-esteem. Most people prefer to put past mistakes behind them rather than revisit and unpack them for... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
before dropping the veneer of perfection: Will the disclosure reveal a solvable operational problem? Any trust that an airline might gain from including a flight’s delay rate would likely evaporate if it seems like many flights spend... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
racial disparities in wealth and income. And because homeownership is one of the principal ways in which families build wealth, housing, race, and economic inequality are all intertwined. It is no accident, for instance, that data from the Census Bureau and the Federal... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
successful fights against adware and spyware companies, and coauthored multiple studies that revealed racial discrimination among Airbnb hosts and guests. He also has published numerous articles in top academic journals. That said, he has... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
shareholders—even stronger. They move fast and fix things. Based on her work with fast-moving companies, Frei reveals the five essential steps to moving fast and fixing things. Audiences will learn to: Identify the real problem holding... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
needs, the extent to which they were being met revealed disparity. Q: Why is MBA education at a crossroads? Garvin: We are approaching the end of an era. Since 1959, business schools have taken a more analytical and discipline-based... View Details
- 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 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne