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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen rhetorically intones, “How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that’s coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it’s intuitive, but it’s also systematic.” Those two qualities — systematic preparation, along with...
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- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
mean-variance optimization with sample means and covariances. The Bayesian inspired Black-Litterman model is described after introducing the intuition of the Bayesian approach to inference in a univariate setting. Purchase this note:...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
to influence local funders is important information. Our interviewees suggest that local firms have a very intuitive sense of this from their fundraising activities and we hope our framework will make this more systematic. For executives,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. In creating leaders we employ the ontological discipline (from the Latin ontologia "science of being," see...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the broader society. By focusing on a descriptive rather than a normative approach...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
volitional (experiments 2A and 2B) and are driven by decreases in trustworthiness engendered by decisions to hide (experiments 3A and 3B). Moreover, hiders do not intuit these negative consequences: given the choice to withhold or reveal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
she'd created for herself caused her to ignore the more intuitive part of the leadership equation, with disastrous results—until she let go of the need to appear invulnerable and reached out to another manager. Jon, a personal trainer who...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
being and acting in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. In creating leaders we employ the ontological discipline (from the Latin ontologia "science of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
commercially or have direct contractual relations. The framework aims to ground the responsibilities of managers in an intuitively plausible standard that is widely recognizedd—duty not to harm others—and to make tractable the concept of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
when you don’t have a network in that industry or that company, to understand what skills you need to actually transition industries. we think there’s a huge void in the market for really directive and intuitive experience to help people...
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- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
effects and direct competitive effects on the producer side. We show that this can sometimes make proprietary platforms more socially desirable than open platforms, which runs against the common intuition that open platforms are more...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency. Experiments 1A, 1B, and 1C reveal effects of indirect agency under conditions favoring...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
functionality to Facebook. And given just our global reach on our family of apps, the functionality being so similar means that you can just put this in the hands of pretty much anybody who has a mobile device, and it’s highly intuitive...
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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
organizational context, with the right leadership, a group can amplify the diverse talents and ideas of its individual members. Leaders Foster Discovery-driven Learning Innovation usually arises from an often lengthy period of conscious experimentation and repeated...
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- 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15
system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
such behaviors led to undesirable consequences, even if they saw those behaviors as acceptable before they knew its consequences. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that a rational, analytic mindset can override the effects of one's View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
several hours that night to do it. I wanted to present an honest understanding of what I thought his gifts were and what he might do with them. Within a week he had signed on.” Bradley’s uncanny ability to see talent and immediately View Details