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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
concern. We also hypothesize that the effectiveness of such campaigns depends on the prior responsiveness of line managers. We test our hypotheses in the healthcare setting, in which problems are frequent. We use data on nearly 7,500 reported incidents extracted from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
are not offered. In these foothold areas, computer-based or online learning is beginning to fill the void and plant itself and make inroads in the education system in classic disruptive fashion. Online learning has increased from 45,000... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
turn, led to BlackTech Week, an annual event established in 2015 to connect startup founders, tech professionals, and investors, drawing crowds well beyond the Black community. Armed with advanced degrees and a family legacy of Black women scientists, Pandwe Gibson... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
spell out the name of the retailer after visiting a tennis ball factory in Korea where the workers did a company cheer and calisthenics together every morning. "My feeling is that just because we work so hard, we don't have to go around... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
club induction are actually willing to pay to get over the margin and into the club," Larkin says. Importantly, Larkin observed that there were no apparent financial benefits to attaining club membership. Recipients received a gold star on their View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
melting ice cube and assets in bankruptcy that are losing value really quickly." Because the data includes judges’ names on individual filings, Antill was able to determine how specific jurists ruled. He focused on companies that sought... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
pandemic) that challenge traditional economic theory centered on the so-called Phillips curve. It’s a simple economic model named after the economist who explored the positive relationship between low unemployment and higher wage rates.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
the firm feedback on this. In response, Buro Happold developed its first formal internal training programs under the name of "Archimedes Academy." The first two programs were (1) the Job Leader Program, targeted for senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
first section, Cotrugli covers the particulars of barter, selling for cash, selling on credit (and receiving payment), and keeping one’s books “in a mercantile manner,” among other business topics. Scholars have noted that it is the earliest known work to cite the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
fundamental changes to the way accounting firms and their clients operate. If we are really going to restore trust in the U.S. system of auditing, we will need to go well beyond the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We will need to... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
is required,” Sunderam says. That type of “soft” information can make a difference for loans that require human discretion—applications that the automated system sends back for further analysis by a loan officer. Minority loan officers... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
name servers host typosquatting domains as much as four times as often as the web as a whole. Download the paper: http://www.benedelman.org/typosquatting/typosquatting.pdf Working PapersLocation Strategies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1). They explicitly prove Theorem 1 for preference domain R0 which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
leaders must respond to. The selection systems used to pick leaders, which he says homogenize the pool of potential CEOs and presidents. These are especially important, Mukunda argues, because they preserve the status quo and prevent... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
domains in which errors in organizations occur: task execution, judgment, interpersonal coordination, and system interactions. We propose a contingency model in which optimal strategies for learning from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
age and with it comes a price: privacy. If monitoring is a good way to provide security, so be it." Have we become so accustomed, however gradually, to the idea of oversight that surveillance in the name of transparency is a mere... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett