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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting
professionals who aspire to advance to senior leadership positions typically adopt the strategy of remaining silent about race and inequality to avoid being labeled “agitators.” In a 2017 study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and colleagues, 78...
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- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of...
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by John P. Kotter
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
beliefs, attitudes, and demographic traits. The study, Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status, will appear in the November issue of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Standing out to...
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by Danielle Kost
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
negativity into an already tense conversation. Try to avoid explanatory words like “because” and “therefore.” These phrases, common in debate, sound argumentative and condescending. In addition to these strategies, the researchers found...
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by Kristen Senz
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Aspiration Aspiration strives to empower individuals and companies to build climate change-fighting action into what they do every day. Aspiration is committed to financing and leading carbon avoidance and removal projects that support...
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- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
factors—gender, rank, and openness—played into people’s decisions about which colleagues they preferred to see online. In a final study, participants were asked to recall whether they connected with former and current colleagues in real...
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by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
should be leery of the sound of silence." As another example of this phenomenon, Luca points to movie studios that, when they know they have a flop on their hands, withhold movie previews from critics to avoid bad reviews during the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Finding it difficult to avoid the second debate, the paper examines the extent to which prevailing accounts of corporate purpose (e.g., shareholder primacy, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship) support attributing responsibilities...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
faced with a situation in which a decision to move jobs overseas to reduce costs and preserve profit performance appeared to be alienating workers, customers, and even the president of the United States. Harley-Davidson had long been held...
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- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a permanent feature of the United...
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by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
growth." What they had in common: They seized opportunity as life presented it: "They did what they could with what they had," he said. They seemed to not have a lot of regrets; they have largely avoided View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
wisdom of the crowd, with each product being reviewed many times (some with more than 1,000 reviews). Because of this, the way in which information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
just five years old when her family emigrated to the United States from Syria. “Growing up, I remember we avoided doctors because we weren’t citizens and didn’t understand how to navigate this country’s complex health care system,”...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on...
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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining performance. A longitudinal study of multicultural MBA study teams found that in the early stage of team formation, teams with a low average level of, but moderate degree of variance in, uncertainty View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
another environment?" Anyone who has studied business cultures in various parts of the world probably would respond affirmatively. Gerald Nanninga observed that "unethical decisions can often appear to be the 'best' View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
Woods's decision to change his golf swing, DeLong's daughter Sara's decision to stay in medical school while she fought lymphoma, and managers who struggled alongside him throughout his career. Despite his...
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by Kim Girard
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
audacious decisions that embody risks and often go against the grain. They cannot afford to keep their heads down, using traditional management techniques while avoiding criticism and risk-taking. In fact,...
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by Bill George