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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
companies to consider how they can institutionalize a level playing field for all employees, including caregivers of both genders. The misguided assumption that high-potential women are "riskier" hires than their male peers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
the DA. In designing the DA career conference initiative, Harris and her team polled DA faculty representing all promotion tracks and length of service. They also captured best practices from across other NAH divisions and other peer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
at the top than business acumen and "soft" leadership skills do. Members of senior management now have more in common with their peers than with the people they manage. To thrive at the C-level, you must be a strong...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
opposite end, they think they're too quiet and shy—and both want to improve the way they handle themselves in their negotiations," Mohan says. "After seeing their results as compared to their peers over a few negotiations,...
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- 19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19
was built on individual freedom, with the expectation that employees would take responsibility for holding their peers accountable and address performance failures directly. The case explores how the company can establish a compensation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
rationales for forming the relationship) are endogenous to the matching process, while others (those that are incidental to the formation of the relationship) may be conditionally exogenous, thus enabling causal estimation of peer...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
this wealth-based discriminatory behavior using a laboratory study. Our experiment shows that individuals are more willing to illegally help peers when those peers drive standard rather than luxury cars and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
capabilities, such as conducting detailed quantitative analyses; connections, such as peer networks and team-based affiliations; confidence, such as learning-based efficacy (or confidence in my ability to learn); and cognition, such as...
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by Mallory Stark
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
that someone hasn't published in a prestigious economic journal is just not that relevant. We must legitimize that concept among our peer institutions." From its original conception, Herzlinger knew that the conference needed to be global...
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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on entrepreneurial self-organization, self-management, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
extra-industry professional networks will, through normative conformity, be more likely to adopt turnkey practices; second, that the normative pressure of professional networks will interact with the mimeticism of industry peers such that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
stakeholders and peer agencies have a positive influence on product approval and that their effects vary under different dimensions of uncertainty. We also discuss the implications of these findings for business-government relations and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
return-regression R2 and 16% worse in measurement error variance; firms choosing specific peers only modestly underperform. Structural estimates suggest that, absent frictions, the underperformance of index-based benchmarks imply a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
particularly those of Richard Kahn, whose multiplier effect became crucial to Keynes's thesis. Meanwhile, Keynes discarded some of his own wrong-headed arguments and excess verbiage.11 Schumpeter, working almost alone, seldom exposed his work-in-progress to anyone. He...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO expensing relative to a control sample of S&P 500 firms; (ii) within targeted firms, the likelihood of adoption increases in the degree of voting support for the proposal; (iii) non-targeted firms were more likely to...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
closest publicly traded peers struggling with heavy debt burdens. HCA's capital allocation choices would be crucial to its ability to provide high quality health care to patients, implement its corporate strategy, and deliver value to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
often work directly with the companies they study. I then survey the factors that influence the quality of UGC. Quality is influenced by factors including promotional content, peer effects between contributors, biases of contributors, and...
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Sean Silverthorne