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- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather events beyond its control. However, fewer voters punish the ruling party...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
financially constrained. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2338575 Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: False Expectations of Leniency in the Punishment of Transgressions By: Gino, Francesca,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
members of a work team believe that well-intentioned efforts, regardless of outcome, will neither be seen negatively nor lead to punishment or rejection? New research by HBS assistant professor Amy C. Edmondson shows that such teams are...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
had difficulty obtaining peer-reviewed government research funds for nearly a decade. Third parties’ lock-hold on reimbursement punishes innovators. When the Duke University Medical Center’s innovative new program for people with...
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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
advantageous for production of designs Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2321691 Off the Hook? Mistaken Expectations of Leniency in the Punishment of Transgressions By: Moore, Celia, Lamar Pierce, and Francesca Gino...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
game. We show that vertical mergers give rise to an outlets effect: the deviation profits of cheating unintegrated firms are reduced as these firms can no longer profitably sell to the downstream affiliates of their integrated rivals. Vertical mergers also result in an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
cases of the model are a long-lived pressure group offering rewards and punishments to a series of targets (public or corporate officials) in exchange for policy favors, or that of a long-lived extorter who demands money in order not to...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
paper details the results of nine studies showing that advisors not only get offended when their guidance is disregarded, but they may punish those colleagues by denigrating them, distancing themselves—and in some cases, even severing the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
health-care professionals. So the primary responsibility for health care is and remains with governments to take care of their citizens. And in many cases, unfortunately, it appears that government leaders care more about their own pockets than about the well-being of...
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- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
of rapid technological change. Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael Di Tella Publication:CATO Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011) Abstract We describe the evolution of selective aspects of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
will experience a crisis once every four to five years. That means that every CEO will likely face a crisis during his or her tenure. How they respond may be the most important thing they do during their entire tenure because the stock market and investors View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
along partisan lines, from overhauling the US corporate tax to punishing companies who choose to move elsewhere. On July 22, 2014, Mihir A. Desai, Miuzho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, testified before...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
behaviors imposed relatively little direct harm on victims. As a result of perceiving behaviors to be less unethical, people punished highly creative forms of unethical behavior less severely than they View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
of individual investors are able to wield great influence on management teams of companies in their investment portfolios. By contrast, index funds almost run on autopilot—with no active investor analyzing companies, rewarding those that make good financial decisions...
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- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences when they ignore the advice they receive. Moreover, these effects are compounded by advisor expertise: expert advisors are more likely to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
describes a growing experimental literature that suggests how perceived ethics surrounding transactions with multiple partners can encourage misbehavior. It is noted that causing harm indirectly through another can protect harm doers. Harm doers are apparently...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
punish families seeking safety.“ In the meantime, McKinsey quietly announced it would not pursue further contracts with ICE. There are many ramifications to any effort to establish moral leadership, either in an organization or an entire...
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- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
employees, their investors, and their partners, knowing that if they don't, then the market will punish them. “If you don't appear to be making good on those commitments, a lot of your key assets will go out the door” "Those commitments...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55865 in press Behavioural Public Policy Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich By: Hauser, Oliver P., Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak, and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
for men and women are different. Women who project power—who negotiate for salary, for example—are more frequently punished while men doing the same thing are more frequently rewarded. This is true when either a man or woman boss is in...
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by James Heskett