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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
that someone hasn't published in a prestigious economic journal is just not that relevant. We must legitimize that concept among our peer institutions." From its original conception, Herzlinger knew that the conference needed to be global...
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- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
K-12 and the community college system. How did you convince companies to get involved? How did you go about working with peer companies that you didn’t control, without telling them there’s only one way to do it? Litow: When I first...
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by Kristen Senz
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
to parallel play by preschoolers, entrepreneurs engaged in parallel play interweave action, cognition, and timing to accelerate learning about a novel world. Specifically, they (1) borrow from peers and focus on established substitutes;...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
alternative investment firm peers in assets under management, new business launches, profitability, and market capitalization. Under the leadership of Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman and CEO, and president and COO Hamilton...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
comparison to its peer institutions, the World Bank has been relatively responsive to calls for greater accountability. This report examines accountability mechanisms at three basic levels in the institution: (1) project, (2) policy, and...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
greater than £25,000. Dougan and the executive team had to decide how best to fund this tax. Was it fair or appropriate to have the shareholders shoulder the burden of the tax? Similarly, was it fair to ask the U.K. employees to suffer relative to their View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
second interview. We looked at, basically, how much do the entrepreneurs learn over a period of time, how much do they mature as entrepreneurs? We asked them what
the sources were of that learning, how much was retained from the mentors, how much was retained from...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
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 in school....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
competitiveness fundamentals to productivity and prosperity outcomes. On these indicators Sweden is compared to a peer group of other advanced EU and OECD countries. The Scorecard finds Sweden's competitiveness to be solid overall,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when their relative value is higher. Indeed, financial rewards are effective at motivating the poorest agents, and non-financial rewards are more effective...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a negative bias in expert evaluations. We analyze the results of a peer review process for medical research grant proposals at a leading medical...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto/sharrocks] Related Reading How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Biden and Other Incoming Leaders...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 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 a randomized field experiment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
return-regression R2 and 16% worse in measurement error variance; firms choosing specific peers only modestly underperform. Structural estimates suggest that, absent frictions, the underperformance of index-based benchmarks imply a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
particularly those of Richard Kahn, whose multiplier effect became crucial to Keynes's thesis. Meanwhile, Keynes discarded some of his own wrong-headed arguments and excess verbiage.11 Schumpeter, working almost alone, seldom exposed his work-in-progress to anyone. He...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
inventions as the top 1% 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 View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
closest publicly traded peers struggling with heavy debt burdens. HCA's capital allocation choices would be crucial to its ability to provide high quality health care to patients, implement its corporate strategy, and deliver value to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
often work directly with the companies they study. I then survey the factors that influence the quality of UGC. Quality is influenced by factors including promotional content, peer effects between contributors, biases of contributors, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
team-based, seniority-based, and flatter compensation. We propose that compensation is strategic not only in motivating and attracting the worker being compensated, but also in its impact on peer workers and the firm's complementary...
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Sean Silverthorne