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- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
mirroring is either necessary or a highly desirable feature of development projects, but evidence pertaining to the hypothesis is widely scattered across fields, research sites, and methodologies. In this paper, we formally define the mirroring hypothesis and review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
few years in deep study of the restaurant industry to create and deliver an MBA-level course at Harvard Business School called Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. Leveraging this work, we virtually convened in April a... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
focused jobs. But if you're a nurse in a hospital, you're dealing with hundreds of different cases constantly. It's tremendously stressful. Every single care event is de novo. So of course, hospitals kill people. Q: One of the hospitals... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
relative to the base model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52788 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
What if businesses could learn from their worst mistakes without actually making them? How might the same progress and innovation occur, without firms incurring the costs associated with such errors? The results of a recent study about... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
Political Economy." By: Rithmire, Meg Abstract—The study of Chinese political economy has undergone a sea change since the late 1990s; instead of debating the origins and direction of national reform, scholars have turned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
Hedonic Treadmill, One Step at a Time: The Impact of Regular Religious Practice and Exercise on Well-Being Authors:Daniel Mochon, Michael I. Norton, and Dan Ariely Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology 29 (2008): 632-642 Abstract Many View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
reviews of handbags) with studies conducted in the field and laboratory, we establish the functional alibi effect and show that it is mediated by guilt and more likely to occur when the luxury purchase is perceived as frivolous and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
stores to 2,227. This surprising resurgence piqued the interest of Ryan Raffaelli, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who studies how mature organizations and industries faced with... View Details
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
How do companies survive not just for years, but for decades? For centuries even? During a global pandemic, researchers are studying anew what makes companies resilient, agile, and enduring. After all, Japanese construction firm Kongō... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
institutions. We asked Harvard Business School faculty who study banks: What does the failure of SVB say about the current state of the banking industry? Here’s what they said. Victoria Ivashina: Banks are ‘fundamentally fragile.’ Much... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
Strategies By: Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
field study of 78 audit and consulting teams from two global professional firms, revealing an irony of team life: even though motivated to perform well on a high-stakes project, pressured teams are more likely to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
Harvard Business School Professor and historian Nancy Koehn has studied Starbucks and its leader, Howard Schultz, for close to 20 years. For her, the company represents much more than a phenomenal success story. In a recently published... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
information daily, the repeated communications seemed puzzling to Neeley, at least at first. The researchers moved forward to investigate what sort of events triggered managers to deploy multiple messages. They View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning
joined by Julia Minson, an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School who researches the psychology of disagreement at the Minson Conflict and Collaboration Lab, for “How to Engage in Productive Disagreement.” The event... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
Working PapersThe Judgment-Decision Paradox in Experience-Based Decisions and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron, Ido Erev, and Eldad Yechiam. Abstract The current paper explores a judgment-decision paradox in experience-based decisions: the finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2021
- Lessons from the Classroom
What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace
Outside the classroom, Harvard Business School Professor Deepak Malhotra’s abiding interest is war and peace–how wars begin and end, how they could have been avoided, and what lessons can be learned from them. Along with studying wars,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
http://www.amacad.org/publications/Challenges.aspx Advertising, the Matchmaker Authors:Bharat N. Anand and Ron Shachar Publication:RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (summer 2011) Abstract We empirically study the informational role of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present three studies demonstrating that outcome information biases ethical judgments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace