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- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
the status quo, primarily because of the lack of a decision-making mechanism amongst the brothers. The firm rapidly went downhill, before declaring bankruptcy in 1875. Purchase this case:... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
one country or one city as opposed to another, due in part to differing institutional contexts. If so, then by aggregating the data, it's possible that researchers have been lumping together dissimilar cases that effectively cancel each other out. If there was a way to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
situation. Extensive research has documented an unconscious mechanism that enhances one's own side, "portraying it as more talented, honest, and morally upright," while simultaneously vilifying the opposition. This often leads... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
securitization of other asset classes because securitized loans are fractions of syndicated loans. Therefore, mechanisms used to align incentives in a lending syndicate are likely to reduce adverse selection in the choice of CLO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA '01) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug research. "A number of the scientists decided that being part of a... View Details
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
be a really important component of explaining when and why we cross ethical boundaries, and these results show us that creativity helps with that process," Gino says. "It suggests that moral flexibility is the mechanism... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
conditions that identify underlying costs. Latent transaction costs are identified even when the exact supplier selection mechanism is unknown. I estimate the model using federal supply contracts and find that transaction costs are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
same time, the hedge fund return series is not reliably distinguishable from the returns of mechanical S&P 500 put-writing strategies. We show that the high excess returns to hedge funds and put-writing are consistent with an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
traditional paradigm of service-level agreements (SLAs), while sufficient for Infosys' needs early on, is not able to achieve the level of understanding that transformational partnerships require. Infosys applies the principles of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
whether media outlets are favoring their own authors because these are the authors that their readers prefer or simply because they are trying to collude. We provide a test to distinguish between these two potential mechanisms and present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
socialization that focused on organizational identity (emphasizing pride from organizational affiliation) and (b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
effort into a commercial website and app. "They realized that some of the interventions they identified were useful to people, but there was no real mechanism to have them be utilized," says Norton, who along with John wrote a recent HBS... View Details
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
explains. "We illustrate mechanisms that will encourage dialogue across internal boundaries and look at techniques such as using stretch goals to get people to think outside the box." In The Classroom The AMP classroom is full... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We formally explore two parallel mechanisms for such protection: one of building moral capital (CSR Contributions) and another of improving investor... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 A Welfarist Role for... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
commercialization of technologies. This evidence also points to an important mechanism relating financial market development to technology diffusion and economic growth. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
decision making often involved more than simply and mechanically combining ideas. For example, at a point midway through making a Pixar movie, an animator gave a character a sideward glance and a slightly arched eyebrow. Only a... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
Organizations struggle to balance simultaneous imperatives to exploit and explore, yet theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap: the missing mechanism by which organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
one’s own knowledge attenuated reliance on algorithms. These tests are important because participants can improve their accuracy by relying more on algorithms (Experiment 4). Experiments 5 and 6 tested a mechanism for reliance:... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
contributes to the literature on behavioral strategy, and highlights unique challenges of starting a new firm in a nascent industry. Further, by identifying the mechanisms through which legitimation activities affect learning, we develop... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne