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- 2013
- Working Paper
Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia
By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai
Since Durkheim, sociologists have believed that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm...
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Governance Compliance;
Governance Controls;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Information Publishing;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Social Issues;
Societal Protocols
Piskorski, Mikolaj J., and Andreea Gorbatai. "Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-055, December 2010. (Revised September 2011, March 2013.)
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
effective therapies more quickly. By mid-2017, Alexander and his colleagues had completed a master protocol for the trial. But now the research team faced several design and operational challenges as they prepared for the trial’s launch....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
with far too many features and software based on proprietary and interdependent architectures. "Microsoft has way overshot what the customer needs," Christensen said. Potential threats: Sun's Java technology, the Linux operating system, and the Internet View Details
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The Price of Equality: Suboptimal Resource Allocations across Social Categories
By: Stephen M. Garcia, Max Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, Avishalom Tor and Dale T. Miller
This paper explores the influence of social categories on the perceived trade-off between relatively bad but equal distribution of resources between two parties and profit maximizing, yet asymmetric, payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 show that people prefer to maximize profits...
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Equality and Inequality;
Resource Allocation;
Societal Protocols;
Profit;
Decision Making;
Prejudice and Bias;
Market Transactions;
Ethics;
Power and Influence;
Distribution;
Organizations
Garcia, Stephen M., Max Bazerman, Shirli Kopelman, Avishalom Tor, and Dale T. Miller. "The Price of Equality: Suboptimal Resource Allocations across Social Categories." Special Issue on Behavioral Ethics: A New Empirical Perspective on Business Ethics Research. Business Ethics Quarterly 20, no. 1 (January 2010): 75–88.
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
enrolled at centers with biometric monitoring are 25% less likely to interrupt their treatment than those at regular centers—an improvement driven by increased attendance and efforts by health workers and greater protocol adherence by...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Article
Trust and Incentives in Agency
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F Spulber
Contracts between a principal and an agent are not formed in a vacuum. Although formal contracts between a principal and an agent contain explicit incentives for performance, the relationship between a principal and an agent also involves implicit incentives. Three...
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Keywords:
Trust;
Motivation and Incentives;
Agency Theory;
Contracts;
Market Transactions;
Performance;
Relationships;
Societal Protocols;
Legal Liability;
Cost
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Daniel F Spulber. "Trust and Incentives in Agency." Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 15, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 45–104.
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
individuals from low employment districts to regions with better employment opportunities. We exploit a natural experiment within an Indian technology firm where the pre-existence of a computer generated talent allocation protocol allows...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
$1.9 million Pursuing Perfection grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to funding an improvement-science training program, the grant requires that the hospital undertake improvement projects. Hence, Kotagal develops hospital-wide View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
Engineering Task Force (IETF), which defines the protocols of the Internet, is a nonprofit professional society. What is different from professional nonprofits or nonprofits focused on charitable causes is that open source foundations...
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by Mallory Stark
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
become the dominant player on the Web, Microsoft announced that it would follow Netscape's lead in supporting all popular Internet protocols (i.e., the rules computers use to communicate with one another on the Internet), even when they...
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by Daniel Penrice
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
interact—everything from how people view the role of the individual versus the group to their attitudes, say, about the importance of time or relationships. In response to these challenges, a great body of literature has emerged to help executives navigate differences...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
Microsystems, "The establishment of industry standards, protocols and APIs which allow competition in devices and services is what's going to drive services in the long run. That's where we should be aiming." Jason Bluming (HBS MBA '99)...
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- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
place several unique institutional characteristics such as a universal healthcare system that emphasized preventive care and a systematic government protocol of testing and tracing, developed after the MERS outbreak in 2015. Furthermore,...
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- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Bargains-Chinese-Capitalism-Politics/dp/1107539870/ May 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an online...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant challenges. The design of international institutions that will be useful for managing change after the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Software 806-121 Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or open source protocols into an opportunity to help firms use technology...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
of data and protocols so that records can be aggregated. In Massachusetts, for example, Blue Cross Blue Shield has invested heavily in a pilot program to develop a medical records platform that could be shared. But as we emphasize in our...
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