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- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
which you can capture whether people are cognitively distracted is to actually look at the errors they make when they are entering data," says Gino, who, as a native of Italy, was in a good position to detect transcription errors. “People... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
learning algorithm, natural-language-processing software to analyze the speed dating conversations. For the third study, armed with their algorithm, they examined data from a 2013 Stanford speed dating study called Detecting friendly,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
analyze the negative effects of bribery on corporate performance. The results of his study, detailed in the paper Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery, surprised him. As it turns out, the biggest problem with corporate corruption... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
malfeasance but can cause problems nonetheless. “They are not even designed to detect misconduct, which is part of what makes this work—employees feel much more comfortable talking than they might in a narrower platform,” says Campbell.... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
our own limited intelligence, it can be very positive. Each one of us has great brain power, but it's limited in certain ways. It's very hard for us to look at massive amounts of data and detect patterns, for example, but machines can, if... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
sites in order to evaluate whether the program is effective." Or as Levine puts it: "It's costly to learn, but it's more costly to be ignorant." To Read More: If you'd like to read the researchers' article in Science, "Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
AVs to drive with common sense may partly entail making them aware of what humans expect of other drivers. For example, an AV that slows down near crosswalks could lead a pedestrian to infer that the AV has detected her, even when it... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
native genius.” Growtall advised leaders to continually “assess the level of pride” in an organization and “educate and re-educate its employees” about how to detect indicators of creeping arrogance. Olufemi Adeyemi suggested that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
available (searching for the lost key at night under the street light where the light is better), limiting options to what's placed in front of us, biases regarding information or its sources, undue trust in a complex system whether or not it is understood (such as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
other multinationals immediately detected new operational and commercial approaches across their international branches and standardized and distributed them to subsidiaries. This proactive behavior toward information was not limited to... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
televisions is becoming increasingly unproductive. Return on invested capital at Best Buy has declined from 23.68 percent to 15.01 percent since 2007, and domestic sales per square foot (including online sales) have also declined in the same period, from $909 to $853.... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
than customers who don’t use the service as part of a routine, the authors find. “Services from streaming video to online retailing might profit from using the model because detailed data can be closely tracked and parsed to detect... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton Abstract What happens when people try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In four online studies using paid participants, we show that listeners can fail to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55668 2019 Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Multivariate Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise Applications By: Elsner,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
restatements can represent an absence of errors, it can also indicate a lack of detection and disclosure of errors and irregularities. We infer the magnitude of detection and disclosure by associating the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively incorrect—questions (the "artful dodge"), a detection failure that goes hand in hand with a failure to rate dodgers more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
this, we should make our services "sticky," tailor offerings to the needs of desired customers, detect and preempt customer defections through special deals, and "bond" with customers through an understanding of their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett