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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
want the right to go after that money? This doesn't mean you don't trust your top executives. It's just good sound governance, good sound executive pay practice. It's not personal. Expensing options created a level playing field. Before,...
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by Roger Thompson
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
follow these practices successfully will have a distinct advantage over their shortsighted competitors. When Contracts Destroy Trust Authors:Deepak Malhotra Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009): 25 Abstract Contracts...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
organizational overhaul. Long-term coach Ron Rivera was fired and Matt Rhule was hired as the new head coach. Newton, having started only two games all last season, was in the last year on his contract. With his injury concerns, Carolina...
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- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
and TripAdvisor contain hundreds of millions of consumer reviews; online marketplaces also rely on reputation systems to facilitate trust between strangers. Economists help companies design reputation systems, “focusing on understanding...
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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Different Stakeholders? Authors:Michael Pirson and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Organization Science 22, no. 4 (2011) Abstract Prior research on organizational trust has not rigorously examined the context specificity of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the quality of research. Does Familiarity Breed Trust? Revisiting the Antecedents of Trust Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Periodical:Managerial and Decision Economics 29 (March - April 2008): 165-190 Abstract This paper...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
Thus, in many ways, the whole teaching model condemns managers to act after the game is over. Maybe you can't teach intuition, but maybe you can. AG: You can promote intuition. You can recognize the innate aptitude of people to grasp what...
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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
that of crowding from above; and the effect of crowding by lower ranked contestants is greatest when there is relatively little race-to-race churn in the rank ordering of drivers. Self-Centered and Other-Regarding Behavior in the Solidarity View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
rules or equipment changes, or was football an inherently physical game that no amount of new rules or equipment could make completely safe? Were current and future players, now knowing full well the potential long-term health...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Science When Novel Rituals Impact Intergroup Bias: Evidence from Economic Games and Neurophysiology By: Hobson, N., F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Inzlicht Abstract—Long-established rituals in pre-existing cultural groups have been linked...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
they want, where they want for almost anything they desire. Associated with that, people are much more comfortable with ecommerce, giving their credit card numbers to Amazon and others, so the comfort and trust levels are much higher....
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Starved for capital in an environment where all the usual money sources had dried up, many major commercial property owners took their companies public in the form of real estate investment trusts (REITs), heretofore a little-used option....
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- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
finite-horizon stochastic dynamic program to study when the value of concealment is positive or negative. We show that when consumers are myopic, the value of concealment is always positive. In contrast, we show that when consumers are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
observed, "We know our limits and understand the law, but we tend to be very open with our employees, we communicate a lot." "They reassured us," said an account executive, "by calling it straight they informed us of their View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
practicing harder and working harder. (The example was shared of the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team, which has its starters practice not against five other players, but against eight, to simulate the most difficult circumstances imaginable, and...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
come. If the VC is vulnerable, use the opportunity to build trust rather than to take advantage. Focus on value-not just valuation. Nonfinancial considerations such as control are also important. Strive for understanding. Seemingly...
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Anna Secino
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
who pool are rewarded by the less informed party with higher payoffs. Finally, we demonstrate through a reexamination of Lai et al., (2012) and Cachon and Lariviere (2001) how pooling outcomes can substantively extend the implications of other extant signaling View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
permission to lead. Troy, a customer service manager, endangered his job and his company's reputation by focusing on protecting his position, not helping his team; when a trusted friend advised him to change his behavior, the results were...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
send gifts to their friends. (4) Offer incentives. Apps that give away mobile minutes, for instance, can entice customers. (5) Entertain. Red Bull and other companies have devised popular games focused on their brands. "Mobile...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pundits and politicians point to the burden of pension, health, and union obligations on the cost side. True, but not it's not sufficient just to cut costs. The real game is about revenues. Municipal revenues come from economic activity,...
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