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- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
design decisions, asking themselves the following questions: 1) Are we providing too much information? In many cases, the simplest, most effective change a platform can make is to withhold information such as race and gender until after a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
risk of adverse effects that arise from taking a single approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49334 Working Papers Selling to a Moving Target: Dynamic Marketing Effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
research team looked at how major events affected the philanthropic activity of 2,571 firms in 157 metropolitan areas, between 1980 and 2006. In assessing the effects of natural disasters, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-073 Leading Global Teams This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
experience yields improved performance. Experience, however, can take many forms. Building on recent studies on learning in operations, we distinguish between repetition of task (i.e., prior experience with the task) and repetition of interaction (i.e., prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
engaging in real earnings management and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Negotiating the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
study the effect local press coverage has on firm behavior, Heese relied on Violation Tracker, which traces corporate violations and penalties from 44 federal regulatory agencies. The team looked at 26,450... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
come first. The authors have identified six common barriers to change: (1) unclear direction on strategy and values, which often leads to conflicting priorities; (2) senior executives who don't work as a team and haven't committed to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate and laud those who are risk... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard Business School Associate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
134,000 arrest records for drunk driving in Washington State) and by participants with the authority to penalize transgressions in an experimental lab setting. An additional experiment provides evidence that this effect is driven by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
spillover effect to the private sector. The authors studied what happened after municipal governments in California adopted policies that required public (but not private) building renovations and new construction to build "green," which... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
mixed expertise teams in which members must work together across knowledge boundaries to accomplish challenging goals will be more likely to collaborate effectively if each individual member perceives that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
commented that this mindset "leads to poor morale and burn out," as well as a loss of effective communication skills. Gerald Nanninga added that "it is destroying the art of pondering" and "by valuing work as a... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Grant, F. Gino, and D. A. Hoffman Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract The article discusses research that identified situations where introverts are more apt to be effective leaders than extroverts.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
congressional committees truly bring home the bacon to their states in the forms of earmark spending. Can you give a sense of how large this effect is? A: Sure. The average state experiences a 40 to 50 percent increase in earmark spending... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
your actions and misconduct to students? The recorded answer offers sobering lessons for anyone with business ambitions. What’s a Boss Worth? Quite a lot, it turns out. Good bosses can have a multiplier effect that ups everyone’s game,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
evaluated the economics of their workforces, effectively sentencing a majority of Americans to years of stagnant or declining wages. In 2014, traded jobs paid on average $69,000 a year, while local jobs paid just $37,000 a year. With no... View Details
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
his colleagues analyzed the data, determining the effects of ads within both two minutes and two hours after airing, they found very different results depending on the type of ad. Action-focused ads increased visits to advertisers'... View Details