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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
rate. Our results suggest that low pay rates are, in and of themselves, unlikely to promote dishonesty. Instead, it is the salience of upward social comparisons that encourages the poorly compensated to cheat. September 2013 Empirical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
customers by matching them “by hand” with early suppliers (e.g., Etsy scoured craft fairs to sign up artisans); acquiring them in bulk (Uber ran promotions during concerts and events); and doing whatever it took to make their offerings...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Globalization and Business Applications Globalization in Historical Perspective By: Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This chapter explores the role that firms have played over time in promoting international trade and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
music business also meant having to do without the financial, logistical, and promotional power of the major labels. To provide an alternative to the muscle of the major labels, the company is launching a venture capital project called...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization - Recruiting
participants to think about their various identities, which of those identities holds privilege, and which of those identities are marginalized. “Every ‘-ism’ (racism, ableism, sexism, Anti-Semitism, etc.) promotes one group having...
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- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
can TV advertising remain an effective means of promoting and selling products and services? In this article, the author draws upon his research to argue that TV advertising remains a powerful vehicle for capturing people's attention,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance mechanisms. Venture capital investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Business History - Faculty & Research
American chemical industries until the 1970s, when the two German firms diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in corporate culture aimed at View Details
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
therefore exacerbated career concerns, and show that this forecast pattern is more pronounced after the Settlement. Both analysts and bank executives benefit from this behavior. Analysts issuing more biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
promoting dishonesty are discussed. Article The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible...
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- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
race biases without knowing that you have these biases, overclaiming credit without meaning to do so, being affected by conflicts of interest, and favoring an in-group—such as universities often do when they give preferential treatment to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote individuals' ability to justify their behavior, which, in turn, leads to unethical behavior. In five studies, we show that participants with creative personalities tended to cheat...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1
occurs when supplier- and customer-facing IT are adopted together, suggesting the presence of complementarities in supply chain technology adoption. These results are consistent with the view that, by reducing external coordination costs, IT investments View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
treatment for women in the workplace, including lower pay and fewer promotions to upper management. 10 years of data studied To investigate the issue of financial misconduct, the researchers used a detailed set of data from the Financial...
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Domestic Students - MBA
out a student loan, you assume a legal obligation to repay the principal amount you borrow, plus interest, under a defined repayment schedule. The following information is provided to help in your financial aid planning. Please be aware that HBS is not able to endorse...
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- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
moving in favorable directions. McCool confirmed his belief in the strategy when he confidently told the employees to stay the course, to keep improving the performance driver measures on the scorecard. And his faith was soon confirmed:...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide favorable coverage to certain authors or to slant...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
of the Northwest Passage as a result of climate change. In 2006, the Panamanian electorate voted in favor of a plan to expand the Panama Canal. The reason is not that the canal had reached full capacity: in fact, a back-of-envelope...
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- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
environments. We find that candidates benefiting from favorable situations are more likely to be admitted and promoted than their equivalently skilled peers. The results suggest that decision-makers take...
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Anna Secino
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
and hazards. Several techniques can enhance the power and efficacy of queries: Favor follow-up questions, know when to keep questions open ended, get the sequence right, use the right tone, and pay attention to group dynamics. Publisher's...
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Dina Gerdeman