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  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

organization, as opposed to the characteristics of single plants. Rather than limiting the responses with multiple choice or yes/no questions, the interviewers kept the questions open-ended to get a complete picture of the actual practices adopted in the organization.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

rate. Our results suggest that low pay rates are, in and of themselves, unlikely to promote dishonesty. Instead, it is the salience of upward social comparisons that encourages the poorly compensated to cheat. September 2013 Empirical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via nonpecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on Productivity... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jul 2006
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How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

their friends. Then they make a few more for friends of their friends, and charge for them. Thus user-manufacturers are born. Because of their low-scale production methods and connections in the community, they have a competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

and task specific information. We test and find support for our hypotheses using experimental methods that permit causal inferences and examination of underlying mechanisms. Our study contributes to... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and David Dreyfus Abstract—In this paper, we test a method for visualizing and measuring software portfolio architectures and use our measures to predict the costs of architectural change. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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  Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

  Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

appear prosocial and not to appear greedy—relates to individuals' volunteer reputations. Experimental results support this possibility. Individuals with past histories of volunteering are less responsive to image concerns if their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

researcher-collected data, the Internet opens exceptional possibilities both by increasing the amount of information available for researchers to gather and by lowering researchers' costs of collecting information. In this paper, I explore the Internet's new datasets,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

of accounting research papers draws causal inferences notwithstanding the well-known difficulties in doing so with observational data. While a minority of papers seeks to use quasi-experimental methods to draw inferences, there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

  PublicationsFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior Authors:L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn Publication:In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is lacking. In this paper, we develop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader's innovation tool kit with a simple and proven View Details
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

assessed by understanding patterns of coupling among components in a system. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51343 in press Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Experience Theory, or How Desserts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

effects, we use experimental methods to demonstrate that participants who imagined shopping with their own bags are more likely to spontaneously consider purchasing chips or dessert items and indicate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

and David Drake Abstract—In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior-the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior-the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

built through institutional deepening by means of dispute resolution processes. This shift, I argue, raises epistemic questions of expertise, the relationship of models to real-world outcomes, and methods for bounding disputes over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

variety of valuation approaches, from techniques widely used in practice to methods less frequently seen in practice today but likely to be increasingly important in the future years. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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