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- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50690 2016 Handbook of Media Economics User-Generated Content and Social Media By: Luca, Michael Abstract—This paper documents what economists have learned about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
the picture actually depicted human or non-human body parts. In short, noses and skin were not good indicators of life. Mouths scored slightly higher as the pictures grew progressively human. But in looking... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
and Organizational Capabilities Authors:R. Gibbons and R. Henderson Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
literature in behavioral ethics and moral psychology on ordinary unethical behavior. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352154615000443 April 2015 Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
entitlement, relates to social role or behavioral expectations within society. We do have a greater expectation of niceness from women than from men. There's a body of research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
wanted to be able to tell students how typical this is and what happens. But there was no literature. We've got huge literature on analysts and auditors, and I assumed there would be a huge literature on the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
even within states, with no apparent difference in care. How do you explain those differences? A: The recent findings are just the latest in a body of important work by John Wennberg and his colleagues at... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
Europe, implementing a flat tax in 1994. One of the fascinating aspects about the Estonian example is that Laar thought that a flat tax had already been tried and proved successful in Western economies, as the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Authors:Diego Comin, Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu Abstract We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
with the convenience of an on-site facility, some busy Google employees found it difficult to stay active. Academic literature would suggest that they just needed the right cues and environment to help them... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
sector of the world economy." Goldberg notes that MBA students who took Agribusiness Management, an elective he taught for decades, often made significant contributions to the body View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
at Harvard Business School, and Kate Barasz, an associate professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, asked participants in a recent study. Interestingly, 20 percent of participants wished for the larger, more serious tear. That’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
are, at the same time, exercising cost-cutting efforts (such as low wages, poor benefits, no health insurance for many employees in the case of Wal-Mart, fines for safety violations in the case of BP) in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
guess one could have accused me of being opportunistic in writing this book, but the fact is the book was finished last year and is only now getting published. I actually wrote my dissertation in 1998 on this topic. The common thread that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
to establish a regulatory body made up of digital market experts, similar to the Federal Trade Commission, who would be tasked with monitoring digital price competition and protecting consumers from the... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne