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- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50612 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By: Buell, Ryan W., Ethan Porter, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Three studies, using original...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia
Ajay Piramal (AMP 110, 1992), Rahul Bajaj (MBA 1964), and Dr. Swati Piramal (MPH 1992) visit the India Research Center offices. “The India Research Center is like an embassy. We bring the best of South...
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- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
type of entrepreneurial population studied (e.g., Main Street vs. those backed by venture capital) to identify interesting and irreducible parts of this heterogeneity, while also identifying places where we anticipate future large-scale View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Reimagining Capitalism: Business and the Big Problems with George Serafeim. Rebecca M. Henderson: Awarded the 2017 Viipuri Prize for outstanding research in the field of strategic management. The prize is...
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- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company investigated these questions, finding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political economy; the...
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- 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
beliefs about their place in these distributions. We focus on potential causes that lead to these misperceptions and discuss the implications that misperceived inequality—but not actual inequality—have for policy and redistribution preferences. We conclude by...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Designing Productive Zones of Privacy
A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Work-Family Research from the Boston College Center for Work and Family and Purdue University Center for Families for "Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work...
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Electronic Medical Records on Hospital Utilization Costs" with Luminita Enache, Xue Guo, and Eddie Riedl. Jonas Heese: Winner of the 2021–2022 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics for “When Executives Pledge Integrity:...
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- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
teams, (3) board-management relations, and (4) executive compensation. We discuss theoretical implications, and consider future directions and research opportunities. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53344...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
about favorable future policy changes. A lab experiment involving monetary bets on the future popularity of politicians and a field experiment involving political donations (N = 660,542) demonstrated that BFF can influence people’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
the world’s top 50 business thinkers. Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2011 Richard A. Crowell Memorial Award, First Prize, from PanAgora Asset Management’s Quantitative Research Institute for the best paper in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research What Top Scholars Say about...
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- June 2016
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Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration
By: Curtis K. Chan and Michel Anteby
What could explain inequality within a given job between groups of workers, particularly between women and men? Extant workplace inequality scholarship has largely overlooked as a source for inequality the job’s work content—the actual tasks workers perform. It is...
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Inequality;
Work;
Mechanisms And Processes;
Stratification;
Labor Process;
Qualitative Methods (General);
Case Method;
Field Research;
Equality and Inequality;
Working Conditions;
Gender;
Labor;
Labor and Management Relations;
Air Transportation Industry
Chan, Curtis K., and Michel Anteby. "Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 2016): 184–216.
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Designing Social Networks: Joint Tasks and the Formation of Network Ties
By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
Can managers influence the formation of organizational networks? In this article, we evaluate the effect of joint tasks on the creation of network ties with data from a novel field experiment with 112 aspiring entrepreneurs. During the study, we randomized individuals...
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Accelerators;
Entrepreneur;
Social Networks;
Field Experiment;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Design;
Networks;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Social Media;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning. "Designing Social Networks: Joint Tasks and the Formation of Network Ties." Art. 4. Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020).
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking, operationalized as perspective-taking. In Study 1, a longitudinal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
A new chair has been established by André R. Jakurski (MBA '73) to support research in the area of global finance. Professor Kenneth A. Froot will be the first incumbent of the André R. Jakurski Professorship of Business Administration....
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- June 2021
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Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate how knowledge similarity between two individuals is systematically related to the likelihood that a serendipitous encounter results in knowledge production. We conduct a natural field experiment at a medical research symposium, where we exogenously...
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Cognitive Similarity;
Innovation;
Knowledge Production;
Natural Field Experiment;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Sharing;
Relationships
Lane, Jacqueline N., Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?" Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 6 (June 2021).