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- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
levels, including that of the individual. We adapt by listening to and heeding customers. We adapt by delegating authority, often to teams operating at the lowest levels of the organization. We adapt by tracking, responding to, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
important narratives around the world that encourages students to more fully inhabit the story's hero—leads to fuller engagement and more active learning. We report results using this approach with undergraduate and graduate students in two View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
University, and Alice Lee-Yoon, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. A worrisome pattern of work, work, work With three experiments, a survey, and a large dataset, the research team arrived at the same... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
division between the 'real world' and university research that you often encounter in the United States." Staats and Upton traveled to Wipro's offices in Bangalore on multiple occasions, interviewing employees at all View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
negotiations. After all, analysts in the investment management industry have highly portable skills and are frequently poached by competing firms. And though all of Park's employees were performing roughly the same work, they had differing View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
delivery systems.” To unravel this complexity, the research team surveyed 78 radiation oncology professionals at the University of California in Los Angeles. First, they surveyed the group about their perceived psychological safety in the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
reflect the use of higher inventory levels by retailers to drive increased profits but with overall reduced gross profitability returns on the inventory investment. These results support the notion that the increased deployment of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
people you would expect to be most active in the field: scholars. "If we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership has been actually given fairly short shrift,"... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
which banks can address federal CRA concerns, and thereby promote bank acquisitions in their jurisdictions. Thus, our findings suggest that the implementation of social legislation at one level in a federal regulatory system undermines... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
measures, and capabilities that are aligned with a focused, winning strategy. Psychological alignment: Managing with their heart, leaders create a firm that provides employees at all levels with a sense of higher purpose, meaning,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
By the early 1980s, several high-income countries—including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—had universal health insurance covering 100 percent of the population. Meanwhile, 40 years later, the United... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. "It was interesting for us to think about how part of your identity seems to go away as you go through that process." “It was interesting for us to think about how part of your... View Details
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was written by Cullen, Will Dobbie of Harvard Kennedy School, and Mitchell Hoffman of the University of Toronto. “There are a lot of companies willing to give workers with criminal pasts a... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
Employment,” which Rouen co-authored with Stanford professor Rebecca Lester and University of Texas professor Braden Williams. As the American economy slowly recovers from the pandemic, corporate leaders, policymakers, and researchers are... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
or free time and family? Soon after settling into her dream job, Whillans worked and traveled constantly, but her partner was miserable, with no job or friends nearby. During one work trip, the couple was fighting long distance, and Whillans barely made it to Cornell... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman