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- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
than just argue, you can look at the data.” Putting loyalty to the test The researchers arranged a simple experiment, in which participants were asked to solve a series of number puzzles. Rather than handing in their results, however, they were allowed to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316093-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-094 Allianz Turkey: Focus on the Customer (B) The (B) case describes the new customer service model for the claims process and the resulting increase in customer satisfaction as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and programs that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
diverse hospitals across the United States. A trained interviewer scored the managers' interview responses based on management practices that ranged from most reactive (lowest scores) to most proactive (highest scores). We established... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
history. Sensitivity to ambiguity was lower in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Lower ambiguity sensitivity was also associated with higher externalizing (but not psychopathy) scores and with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in treatment schools by 0.28 standard deviation, mostly due to large gains experienced by children at the bottom of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
experience planted a seed for Pomeranz's future research: how to promote financial savings among "microentrepreneurs" such as food cart owners, street vendors, and cosmetics saleswomen, whose income is low and often fluctuates.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
employment commitments and the need to promote employees within the organization further encourage Japanese companies to expand operations at home while reaching foreign markets through zaibatsu-linked trading companies or offshore sales... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Impossible, I draw out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting the U.S. Constitution, resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
apart. “If this cycle continues, whole retail chains can quickly become full of zombie stores” Taken all together, lower price points, decreased traffic, and smaller baskets means lower sales and margins for brick-and-mortar stores. Given recent View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
consumers to purchase more than one brand. When consumers purchase all varieties from which they derive non-negative net utility, there is no competition, so that each firm behaves like an unconstrained monopolist. When each consumer is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
through Vermont, because they have diversified their own risk across the possibility of hurricanes in Vermont, floods in England, and earthquakes in California. "One relies on the insurance sector to promote risk sharing," says... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
established, prestigious retailers. Breaking Into Department Stores How was this young, little-known company, without a large advertising budget, to break into specific prestigious stores and thereby use their appeal to help build its brand? Beginning in the mid-1940s,... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
Tracking Study, Teixeira and colleagues question whether advertisers are striking the right balance between entertaining and promoting their brands. Could companies entertain less and get consumers to buy more? Teixeira's research offers... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
become effective activists and philanthropists through their everyday activities, at little or no cost to them," explains the friendly and low-key Scher, seated in an office whose walls are lined with posters and photos from scores of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry... View Details