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  • 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007

Preferences and Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of... View Details
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

Corporate donations to political campaigns reveal a lot about mutual back-scratching in the political and business arenas. Now new research from Harvard Business School reveals that corporate giving may... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

Professor Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Business in Global Society Research Three workstreams Enterprises What are the advantages and limitations of different ways of structuring the ownership of business enterprises? Under what conditions are some... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

42.4%; P = .01). Clinical activity and primary employment in a clinical role decreased after degree conferment. After completing their education, a majority of physician-MBAs divert their primary professional focus away from clinical activity. These findings View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

heterogeneous preferences for work versus leisure. Evidence from six other countries reveals similar findings in economies at different stages of development. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

might be more revealing than people's reactions to questionnaires. "Nearly all of our cognition is below the level of awareness," Zaltman says. "How can we surface it, and relate it to how we think of our jobs, an institution, a cause?"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

turn, reveal that a significant group of firms have two-way "vertically permeable boundaries": (i) they participate in multiple stages of an industry's value chain, hence are vertically integrated, but also (ii) they allow both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

field of neuromarketing, which uses brain-tracking tools to determine why consumers prefer some products over others. And there is neuroleadership, which applies neuroscience to management research. Looser is looking to integrate insights... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this organizational heterogeneity: it may reflect inherent heterogeneity of the software workforce, in terms of which kinds of organizations individual workers prefer to work... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54599 When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender By: Coffman, Katherine B., Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle Abstract—We use an experiment to show that employers prefer to hire... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

designing service interactions so that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs. Across three studies, we find that revealing the “submerged state” through operational transparency impacts citizens’ attitudes and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Apr 2009
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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
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Unleashed

leading from the sidelines, where their most valuable, freedom-loving employees preferred them to be. It’s a model that reveals another foundational truth about leadership: some of your best people don’t... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 03 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen

everything from temperature to light intensity and humidity. Machines assist a small production team that cuts and bundles roses for sale. Image source: the authors Once cut, the flowers are handled differently depending on the tastes of the customer. For example, some... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

ideas into great businesses and are protected from senior managers who believe out-of-the-box thinkers need a lesson. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mood Congruity, Self-monitoring and Retail Context Preference Authors:Rohit Deshpandé,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. The findings reveal that the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman