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- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
Farre-Mensa, Joan, Deepak Hegde, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We provide evidence on the value of patents to start-ups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents....
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS
day-out with the extraordinary people who have surrounded me for the last two years. As I ready for my move to Chicago for my next adventure, I wanted to share a few things that I’ve learned during my time here. 1. I learned to ask for help During my first year View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
Meet Annie & Piper: A Student and Dog's Life at HBS
dog, Piper. We caught up with Annie to learn more about her and Piper’s experience at HBS. Were you nervous about coming to HBS with a dog?I was a little nervous that I'd feel like I was missing out on...
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- 31 Jan 2022
- News
Who Pays Tolls at Work, and Who Cruises on an Open Highway?
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale randomized experiment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
frustration and a path to burnout that is all too common in today’s workplace, says Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Today’s jobs are expanding in terms of what is...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
Kids and adults alike had told me I just “wasn’t athletic,” and that was OK—I was smart and talented in other ways. So when the time came for that mandatory mile run I had to get creative. We didn’t have a gym at my small parochial...
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Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- January 31, 2022
- Article
Who Pays Tolls at Work and Who Cruises on an Open Highway?
By: Siri Chilazi, D. Kolb, Kathleen L. McGinn and Jessica L. Porter
As organizations continue to navigate a changed world amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and the reverberations of the Black Lives Matter movement, many of the issues that affect underrepresented groups in organizations, including women of all different races and...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Opportunities;
Equality and Inequality;
Social Issues
Chilazi, Siri, D. Kolb, Kathleen L. McGinn, and Jessica L. Porter. "Who Pays Tolls at Work and Who Cruises on an Open Highway?" Harvard Business Review (website) (January 31, 2022).
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
strategic intent. This book of cases provides real examples of these challenges. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52557 forthcoming Management Science If You're Going to Do Wrong, at Least Do It Right:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan incorporating objective and subjective criteria. In principle, such plans could motivate employees to perform both at a high level,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Abstract—Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work
You feel your career stalling, with no clear path for advancement or a raise. You know the right conversation, artfully navigated, with the right individual at the right time is necessary—but approaching that moment requires ingenuity and...
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by Avery Forman
- 2020
- Working Paper
Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research
Supervised machine learning (ML) methods are a powerful toolkit for discovering robust patterns in quantitative data. The patterns identified by ML could be used as an observation for further inductive or abductive research, but should not be treated as the result of a...
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Machine Learning;
Theory Building;
Induction;
Decision Trees;
Random Forests;
K-nearest Neighbors;
Neural Network;
P-hacking;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres. "Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-032, September 2018. (Revised June 2020.)
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
2016 Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies By: Shah, Shashank Abstract—Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million doors knocked) enabled View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
you go, know when to take advice, and when to follow your gut. Figuring out an internal confidence that doesn’t get shaken when you mess up or miss something can be isolating and lonely at times – both...
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- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old. According to his daughter Laura U. Moon, Managing Director of Initiatives View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
as one of those, Bill. Thanks for joining me. Bill: It's great to be here, Brian. Thanks for asking. Brian: I found this case to be very, very interesting. I think many of our listeners have probably referred to those rankings at some...
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