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- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
congruence. Performance appraisals with 360-degree feedback improves congruence and collaboration, opens communication when feedback is discussed by the team, and provides an opportunity for more accurate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
segregation, is just one example of the positive and noteworthy impact social science research can have on the world beyond academia. But many researchers today have trouble communicating with non-academic audiences and engaging the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments run by a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
Tufano Abstract Financial innovation has been both praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
characteristic of great leaders like Dr. King. Kenny: Even in the excerpt that we at the opening of the podcast here, he was very fearful, right up until literally hours before he was assassinated, but he was able to overcome those fears... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
that are more or less open to compromise with the incumbent regime of Assad. Our results show, first, that refugees are far more likely to agree to a cease-fire proposed by a civilian as opposed to one proposed by armed actors from either... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim. Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving open the question of whether giving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
To remain competitive MySpace had to release its own platform, and now it needs to decide whether to build its own proprietary application platform or join OpenSocial, a Google-sponsored open source... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
unique and previously undocumented source of variation in private school tuition to estimate this key parameter. A majority of Catholic elementary schools offer discounts to families that enroll more than one child in the school in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
allow testing for and predicting firm-specific coefficients, thereby distinguishing between effects that have a significant mean versus significant variance. RCMs may also be used to explore the sources of firm heterogeneous effects. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-034 Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work: Managing Communication No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
approaches to analyzing measurement of digitization. This agenda overlaps with many related open questions in organizational and strategy research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
lines in order to illuminate the ways that U.S. states take advantage of federal ambiguity and are able to shape corporate practices to their benefit. We specifically examine how patterns of bank acquisitions are shaped by the crucial relationship between the federal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
and the latest example of zero-sum competition. If drugs are too expensive, let's get the government to pay more. Now that healthcare costs have gotten so high, it is squeezing consumers, employers, state governments, and federal governments. The pain is so great that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
team sport; someone needs to be able to catch the ball thrown by your star QB. Teams need complementary assets and so do companies. When it comes to open positions, some are inherently easier to plug and play. Others are less portable.... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
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 his or her expert identity, defined broadly to encompass... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
social sector, the results are not at the firm level but in a community or society. To really see impact, we have to ratchet it up a notch and talk about entire ecosystems—collections of organizations working on a common set of problems.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with the results. Strategically they had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese negotiators can be at once warm hosts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Group, a Chinese hotel chain that opened about 2,000 hotels during its first decade in business, uses Balanced Scorecard (BSC) metrics to promote both consistency of service and an entrepreneurial attitude among hotel managers. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne