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- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
sheets, just reporting the number of puzzles they got right. To sweeten the pot, participants were told they could earn 25 cents for themselves for each problem they got right, along with 25 cents for each member of their randomly preassigned group. “We wanted to...
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by Michael Blanding
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
in their attempts. A set of interrelated choices of organization design and senior team process determines which attempts to build ambidextrous organizations are successful. How Much to Make and How Much to Buy? Explaining Plural Sourcing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 24
Netta Barak-Corren, Elizabeth Linos, Elspeth Kirkman, and Sean Robinson Abstract—Roughly 20% of adults in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the UK, many colleges...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract— Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
he faces the additional choice of whether to file for bankruptcy in the U.K. or in France, which take quite different approaches to restructuring troubled companies. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
from participant to participant. In some cases the question was point blank: "Have you done this behavior?" But in others, the question was indirect: Participants had the choice of answering "If you have ever done this behavior, how...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
predictable than many managers realize. A number of choices must be made without full information. Purchase this case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806170 Rwanda: National Economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
strategic choices for retailers. With respect to pricing, an important decision is whether to offer a “self-matching policy,” which allows a multichannel retailer to offer the lowest of its online and store prices to consumers. In...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
hopped in lateral cycles and the upward flow of creative offensive schemes stopped at the college level, with most teams running similar, risk-averse offenses, and innovation taking root slowly.” This conservative approach to hiring seems...
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- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
organization, as opposed to the characteristics of single plants. Rather than limiting the responses with multiple choice or yes/no questions, the interviewers kept the questions open-ended to get a complete picture of the actual...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American...
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by Spencer E. Ante
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
the market for post-season college football bowls. Together these will illustrate that unraveling can occur in markets with competitive prices, that it can result in substantial inefficiencies, and that marketplace institutions play a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
story—it is the story of the personal computer, its software, and its impact upon society. From two college drop-outs based on the West Coast came a revolution which fundamentally influenced the global practice of business. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
restaurant A and movie D and have a wonderful evening. Both enjoy the activity they care more about, making both happier than they would have been if they compromised. On the societal level, while one restaurant won and others lost, and one movie studio won and others...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
answers on the national college entry exam in Chile. We find that the policy change significantly reduced a large gender gap in questions skipped. It also impacted gender gaps in performance, leading to increased representation of women...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
important strategic choice for the future. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-065 Luminopia: Improving Treatment for Visual Disorders Luminopia—a start-up founded in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
affects interventional cardiologists deciding between two types of cardiac stents. Analyzing 147,000 choices over six years, we find that individuals do respond to negative news by using the focal production tool less often. However, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College to employ and train a cadre of professional directors...
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by Roger Thompson