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- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
increase the likelihood of approaching a social venture with a business-minded bent. The team hypothesized that cultural gender norms might play a role, too. “Gendered cultural beliefs associate women with personal qualities such as caring, selflessness, and...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
“lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women achieving similar and positive returns when they are forced to negotiate, we find that women avoid negotiations more often than men....
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
debate about gay rights in Indiana” To investigate, Toffel and Chatterji designed an experiment to gauge whether mentioning Cook’s concerns about the RFRA influenced public support for the law, and whether Cook’s opinion affected...
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
nonpartisan press rights organization Reporters Without Borders. They found that for every 10-point increase in the press rights score, countries averaged nearly 10 percent fewer violations in their factories. The team attributes this...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
on making them thoughtfully and deliberately, without remorse. Q: Could you talk a little about the four service "truths"? A: Frei: Companies that excel at service typically do a great job in four areas: identifying the View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
evidence for this proposition using a fine-grained dataset from the National Basketball Association. In this highly competitive industry, team performance is positively associated with coaches’ subsequent exercise of racial bias: players View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
Lewis (HBS MBA '92), took the Internet retailer of office supplies from 25 to 400 employees and $50 million to $500 million in revenues. Being an "intrapreneur" within a larger corporation—with a larger corporation's deep pockets—offered a nice hybrid View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
first time was not what they had expected. "By starting online, some people had experiences they wouldn't have had if they had been able to see up front what someone was like," Norton says. "So we wanted to explore ways to...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry. Specifically, we use differences...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Synchronicity and Firm Interlocks in an Emerging Market Authors:Tarun Khanna and Catherine Thomas Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Stock price synchronicity has been attributed to poor corporate governance...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
been priorities in national initiatives. Conclusions. Our study suggests an underutilized strategy for improving patient safety and staff efficiency: leveraging frontline staff experiences with work systems to identify and remove...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
affiliation. These results hold through a large number of specifications and cannot be attributed to mobilization against the laws, measured by campaign contributions and self-reported political engagement. ID requirements have no effect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution rates differ between employees hired before versus after the Roth introduction, which means that the amount of retirement consumption being purchased by 401(k) contributions increases after the Roth introduction. A survey View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
been negligent; it's more notable when a good company screws up. But if the insurance argument held true, then greener companies should at least see more favorable coverage when spills occur, with the media being more likely to attribute...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
What personal attributes were crucial among the leaders you have studied? A: There is no substitute for leaders personally meeting employees. Leif Johansson, CEO of the Volvo Group in Sweden, did a lot of that when he took charge. He made...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
describe it, has worked well for certain things in the industry, but not so well for others. What are some of the attributes of the anatomy and how has it contributed to performance shortfall? A: Let's take one: the market for know-how. I...
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- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form, ranging from more general solutions with weaker constraints, to more specific solutions with stronger...
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Sean Silverthorne