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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
an excitement and willingness to explore new insights and new angles on how to explain and cultivate social change within or across organizations. This edited volume will be of interest to an international community that seek to understand how organizations and people...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
accurately reflect the demographic diversity of the U.S. population. Yet, most research on diversity in organizations has focused on the outcomes associated with workforce diversity and not on the processes that can enhance diversity in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
in stylized, hypothetical scenarios meant to isolate key features of the tax problem, a large share of respondents resist the full equalization of unequal outcomes due to innate brute luck that standard analyses recommend. A similar share...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
helping the environment or encouraged to drill for carbon-based fuels? How do we fund government programs such as health care and entitlements? How big should government be? "...it would be constructive to have a discussion about...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
others, I found that the founders with the most enviable outcomes had usually followed basic principles of entrepreneurship. Most encouraging, I discovered, is that those principles can be learned. Howard Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Baker...
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as opportunities. If healthcare is expensive and ineffective, entrepreneurial teams create ventures (for-profit or not-for-profit) to deliver better health outcomes at lower cost. If education at all levels...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
jobs. The model helps businesses deal with economic uncertainty, and individuals handle non-work obligations. Kelly Services, the 75-year-old firm that is synonymous with temporary work, has filled many essential positions. It supplies epidemiologists to the National...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
sort of bringing the organization holistically along. Ultimately, you have to start to remake the culture of the organization, where you change the definition of success to focusing much more on outcomes over the number of people you’re...
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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
to in July and December. Now, we’ll look at what they have been doing to cope with the circumstances. Forced to stop and rethink every aspect of their businesses from the morning commute to the mission statement, these inspiring CEOs have also been prioritizing their...
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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
key components for taking care of yourself after performing a necessary evil.” It is important to note, however, that we did not gather data about outcomes in this study, so we cannot conclude that any particular method of handling the...
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by Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Occupational Safety and Health Administration—but I guess even reasonably well-informed citizens really don’t understand its full breadth and mandate. Could you just give us a little bit of a primer on that?Aguh: If you think about the...
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- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
realistic preferences (Buera, Monge-Naranjo, and Primiceri [2011] discuss the evolution of beliefs about economic systems). A key contribution of AA is to obtain these two equilibria from identical societies assuming agents prefer View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper...
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Hawkins’s theories about brain function. (“We don’t do discovery by wet lab,” Hawkins clarifies. “We’re theorists.”) One of the first theories to become a business foundation was Hawkins’s finding that the brain’s neurons use their synapses to make predictions—about...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
against the need to reduce a platform holdup problem. Agree to Disagree: Frank Discussion, Attention to Cultural Fit Can Help Avoid Recruiting Errors Author:Sachin H. Jain Publication:Modern Healthcare (February 23, 2009) Abstract Almost everyone in View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of this cycle?Cappelli: Well, you probably remember this, too, that a few years ago there was an awful lot of interest in alternative measures of accounting—trying to find outcome measures beyond simply what GAAP would allow you to do,...
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- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
organizations. Publisher's link: http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.5465/amj.2013.0903 December 2014 Journal of Applied Psychology Preparatory Power Posing Affects Nonverbal Presence and Job Interview Outcomes By: Cuddy, Amy,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
War I, the management of political risk became a central concern for firms operating internationally. These risks were on many levels, from expropriation to exchange controls and other economic policies. The issue is explored in multiple chapters, but the chapter on...
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