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- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
applies road rules to extreme “driverless dilemmas,” and more on how it can make decisions in everyday cases that lie on the edge of hard-and-fast driving rules. “Human drivers take a test, and we then assume that they are going to use... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
story-one located far from the factory floor. Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship Between Relative Wages and Employee Theft Authors:Tatiana Sandino and C. X. Chen Publication:Journal of Accounting Research 50, no. 4 (2012) Abstract In this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
Abstract—High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
greatest source of wealth for most families. In this interview Segel discusses the importance and fascination of real estate, and three important trends remaking the industry: institutionalization, environmentalism, and globalization. Sarah Jane Johnston: Why is the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
curricula. The good news, says Huckman, is that many of these skills can be learned simultaneously with clinical skills. “Like medicine,” he says, “leadership is best taught through observation, experience, and practice.” In fact, the View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
Carlile Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 8, no. 2 (2009) Abstract Some in the Academy have questioned the usefulness of case studies in teaching sound management theory (Shugan... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1
Case 810-018 This case study provides an overview of Intuit's growth and, in particular, the sales and service initiatives that historically fueled the company's growth from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
past success and strove for even greater heights. But what do his efforts for Kind of Blue have in common with business innovation? Rob Austin: We conceived the case to get at questions about how the creative process "detaches"... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on money demand. This paper asks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
specialists—including a professional climber, a doctor, and a photographer—each of whom scored points according to how many of their individual goals were met. For each group, the researchers designated a formal leader. In some cases they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27
education; provide case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better; and offer concrete ideas for how business schools can surmount the challenges that come with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities, as they "check off" items on an "experiential check list" and build their "experiential CV." A series of laboratory and field studies shows that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
not the case in other parts of the world. In some countries, mostly in northern Europe, people’s economic fates aren’t tied to those of their parents’ so directly. Supporting skills-based education A high-quality education and resources... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
sophisticated interventions, such as cardiac catheterization and bypass surgery. Big problems with meaningful solutions While the study couldn’t determine why Black patients ended up at lower-quality hospitals, Chandra is investigating... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
Abstract A perennial question facing managers is how much decision latitude to give their employees at work. The current research investigates how decision latitude affects employees' perceptions of managers' personalities and, in turn, their leadership effectiveness.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
executing it." In the HBS case study More Citizens Connect, Weiss details some of the learning challenges involved with Citizens Connect, the 311 app produced for Boston. After the successful rollout in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
world is a myth." The survey included both hypothetical and reactive questions, asking respondents how they believed the detection of bribery would affect the firm and—in cases where it had actually happened—how bribery really did... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of political decentralization and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
communication. We propose that a barrier to the sharing of ideas pertinent to innovation in inter-cultural relationships is low affect-based trust, which arises from individuals' deficits in inter-cultural capability. Results from a study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
Anecdotally, employees also started sharing salaries through Google spreadsheets, according to Cullen’s research. How transparency leads to lower pay Cullen and Pakzad-Hurson studied how the labor market adjusts depending on pay... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman