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  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

it isn’t. But learning behaviors are usually discretionary, somewhat effortful, and potentially embarrassing. They bring interpersonal risk. Saying, ‘I need help. I’m not sure what to do here,’ is a learning behavior,’” Edmondson... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 17 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

professor of organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of Toronto Mississauga; András Tilcsik, assistant professor of strategic management at the University of Toronto; and Sora Jun, a doctoral candidate at... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

and limited resources better: our time. Here’s what they said. Leslie Perlow: Consider where you work, not just when The pandemic has brought on many changes with respect to how people can use and manage their time, some of which are View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

studies, are uniquely individualized. Factors like departmental fit, location preferences, dual career choices, and family needs shape these decisions. We celebrate when students secure a position that brings them joy! Students are... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

How to onboard recently graduated MBAs

For large numbers of Harvard Business School MBA graduates, the first post-degree position is not merely a return to the workforce, but a deliberate pivot toward a new ambition. “Many MBAs are switchers,” notes Kristin Brennan, HBS Career... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

yourself, he says. They are best positioned to judge whether the behavior is outside the norms of the client organization and whether the behavior could impact that ability of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
  • 23 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

disrupted by substantial changes in membership during the downsizing had poorer work environments and lower levels of creative behavior than those that remained stable amidst the chaos. Overall, lower creativity resulted from the degraded... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • March 2021
  • Article

Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment

By: Kris J. Ferreira and Joel Goh
Assortment rotation—the retailing practice of changing the assortment of products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple... View Details
Keywords: Assortment Optimization; Retailing; Imperfect Information; Sales; Strategy; Consumer Behavior
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  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

manipulation that involves misclassifying a patient into a diagnosis-related group that yields higher reimbursement. As overbilling allows hospitals to increase revenues without altering operations, affecting costs, or having to reverse such View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

PublicationsMediators in Position Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract A mediator is a reliable entity, which can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

  PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2014
  • Article

Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott S. Lee
Organizations often use non-monetary awards to incentivize performance. Awards may affect behavior through several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker... View Details
Keywords: Social Comparison; Awards; Optimal Expectactions; Zambia; Status and Position; Performance Expectations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Zambia
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  • February 2024
  • Article

Are Many Sex/Gender Differences Really Power Differences?

By: Adam D. Galinsky, Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah Riley Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin and Joe C Magee
This research addresses the long-standing debate about the determinants of sex/gender differences. Evolutionary theorists trace many sex/gender differences back to natural selection and sex-specific adaptations. Sociocultural and biosocial theorists, in contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Genetics; Power and Influence; Social Issues
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  • March 2012
  • Article

The Hierarchical Face: Higher Rankings Lead to Less Cooperative Looks

By: Patricia Chen, Christopher G. Myers, Shirli Kopelman and Stephen M. Garcia
In 3 studies, we tested the hypothesis that the higher ranked an individual's group is, the less cooperative the facial expression of that person is judged to be. Study 1 established this effect among business school deans, with observers rating individuals from higher... View Details
Keywords: Rank and Position; Cooperation
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  • 2019
  • Article

An Empirical Study of Rich Subgroup Fairness for Machine Learning

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
Kearns et al. [2018] recently proposed a notion of rich subgroup fairness intended to bridge the gap between statistical and individual notions of fairness. Rich subgroup fairness picks a statistical fairness constraint (say, equalizing false positive rates across... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Fairness; AI and Machine Learning
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    Patent Trolls

    We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and support small inventors.... View Details

    • 06 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

    other side of the Zoom call after we hang up?” Perlow asks. Just being aware that another group might have a different view of the meeting—reinforced by their own collective positive or negative energy—can help make everyone more... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding