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- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
Summing Up What Isn't Off Limits When it Comes to Transparency? The discussion of this month's column on corporate transparency to employees made it clear that we have reached a point at which disclosure of pay information in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Networks Authors:Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers) who share files and download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
the natural environment while creating urban living capacity by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage complex urban systems. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Publication:American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009) Abstract We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries. Using a combination of four-digit-level... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
provider. Academic centers will make different choices than community or rural hospitals. A provider may make different choices from peers nearby. Part of the strategic choice of service lines is to match the complexity and acuity of the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
"black box." Peering Into The Black Box In a new working paper written with Adam M. Kleinbaum (HBS DBA'08) of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, titled Inside the Black Box of Corporate Staff: Social Networks and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Emergency Medicine What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles By: Callaham, Michael, and Leslie John Abstract—Study... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
process and Davis's creative leadership and ability to cultivate talent (such as that of saxophonist John Coltrane)—many of the great jazz musicians of the 20th century came out of the informal "Miles Davis University." Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Physical Health By: John, Leslie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
people have very different backgrounds and skills—clearly lawyers are not like software developers—but they have a lot in common too. Fundamentally, professional service firm leaders grapple with the same kinds of management issues. It's reassuring for managers to know... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Finally, we overcome the computational burden of solving games of complete information with multiple equilibria by utilizing the GPGPU technology, using multiple processing cores in a graphics processing unit to noticeably increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
percent of U.S. inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to peer locations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
measures' informativeness about managerial effort and talent depends critically on the judicious selection of peer firms as performance benchmarks. By evaluating the efficacy of firms' chosen relative TSR... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
discouraging further actions. "Through this back-and-forth, the would-be leader accumulates experiences that inform his or her sense of self as a leader, as well as feedback about his or her fit for taking up the leader role,"... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
display a lot of information about their careers, which makes them available to headhunters and other employers as passive candidates. But they also establish relationships with others to stay in touch with View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
the Market for Digital Information Goods," is among the first efforts to study the interactions of two entirely new and radical business models operating in the same market. Sean Silverthorne: What attracted you to research this area... View Details