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- 26 Feb 2013
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award program decreased plant productivity by 1.4%, and that positive effects from awards are accompanied by more complex employee responses that limit program effectiveness. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2215922 Do Display Ads Influence Search? View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Positive Professional Image
As HBS professor Laura Morgan Roberts sees it, if you aren't managing your own professional image, others are. "People are constantly observing your behavior and forming theories about your competence, character, and commitment,...
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by Mallory Stark
- 29 Apr 2014
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Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various productive activities in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past seems like an admirable goal. Naturally, some observers attribute the poor performance of others to human error of one kind or another. They blame the firm's leaders for making critical...
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by Michael A. Roberto
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
personal and organizational effectiveness. Although specific research interests span a wide range of subjects, the faculty share a problem driven, interdisciplinary, multi method approach that has led to significant impact on theory and...
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
price increases do not predict lower returns going forward, these increases do predict substantial heightened probability of a crash. Simple attributes related to the price run up can help predict both the crash probability and future...
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- 29 Oct 2013
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Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
"we have a bigger budget than expected." So the additional dollar was perceived as a gift, Malhotra said. "Those who were promised $3 but then later were given an additional $1 worked significantly harder than the other two groups," he said. "We View Details
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by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 11 Jun 2009
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Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Across IndustriesBy: Charles M.C. Lee, Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun and Ran Zhang May 2024 | Article | Journal of Financial Economics Economic theory suggests that production complementarity is an important driver of sectoral...
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Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
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Chiu, C-y, Morris, M.W., Hong, Y-y, & Menon, T. (2000). Motivated cultural cognition: The impact of implicit cultural theories on dispositional attribution varies as a function of Need for Closure.... View Details
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Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research
The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community...
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on previous theory and research, we propose that the greater self-insight they are attributed leads...
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- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
the number of unique messages a user received during the beginning of the experiment, and divided the group into thirds. Physical attributes didn’t come into play, though there could be overlap between the number of messages and...
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by Kara Baskin
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the capacities for cognition and emotion for robots and humans, workers will express more discomfort with botsourcing when they consider losing jobs that...
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- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
Thought Theory (UTT); namely, that unconscious thought is a bottom-up process, whereas conscious thought is a top-down process. In two experiments on impression formation, participants read behavioral information about a fictitious person...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2011
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http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-ordinary-heroes-of-the-taj/ar/1 Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs Authors:Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah Kolb Publication:Academy of Management...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
characteristics at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members but not of senior managers, a result that is contrary to...
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