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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
moderate-income families (LMI) families were given the option of redirecting some of their refund to savings? Would they take advantage? The Tax Test Tufano and a cross-sector team of nonprofit and private sector organizations explored those questions in an View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the various actors in the system are not designed around value, nor is competition reinforcing improvements in value. For example, let's take the prescription drug benefit, the big reform of today that everyone is talking about. This is... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22
depleted of their self-regulatory resources are more likely to "impulsively cheat" than individuals whose self-regulatory resources are intact. We report results from four experiments that describe this relationship. Individuals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
that neither view is quite right. Although the new forms (built upon a half-century of research on and experience with self-managed teams) can help organizations become more adaptable and nimble, most companies shouldn't adopt their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
field experiment to examine how workplace safety inspections affected injury rates and other outcomes. We compared 409 randomly inspected establishments in California with 409 matched-control establishments that were eligible, but not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer for whom it is produced. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely unexamined. We explore this dimension of volume-based learning in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization to open up its innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
and Alison Wood Brooks. Excellence Comes From Saying No (31,511) In a new course designed by Frances Frei and Amy Schulman, business and law students help each other define and achieve their own interpretations of success. Lesson one: You... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
get "more bang for their buck" from their board members' time? The answer to all three questions is yes—if what a company expects of its board members is redefined and if the meeting process is redesigned so that the board's time is primarily spent on helping... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
related to per capita income. We also find that economic conditions affect conflict dynamics, as poorer countries are likely to experience longer and more intense spells of fighting after the onset of conflict. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
employees subsequently experience authoritative or consultative budgeting, their psychological contracts are breached. Employees who experience psychological contract breach seek redress through budgetary... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior industry experience shapes a set of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
(and improve) line operations as temporary issues arose; it prevented unproductive distractions and provided workers with increased focus; and it let the line experiment with new ideas prior to explaining them to management. Indeed, the... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The researchers used an evaluation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006
and, eventually, through its decision to execute a management buyout to exit the public market. Explored at the corporate level is the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits and achieve excellent educational outcomes. Brief descriptions are provided of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
Routledge, 2007 Abstract Successful leaders—at any level and in any arena—are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
be less likely to predict that John also enjoys conducting social science research at Harvard. FIVE EXPERIMENTS The researchers conducted five studies to determine when and why people assume that others are incapable of liking dissimilar... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
principles in a way that matches the context of the particular company, industry, and supply chain. EE: How would you summarize the program's takeaway value to participants? Or stated another way, how will this learning experience benefit... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders can and do engage meaningfully with work, family, and community. They've discovered through hard experience that prospering in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne