jokes - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

share useful information in informal settings. One of the ways people who are in the numerical minority (I call them O’s) get accepted into groups of otherwise all X’s is to be seen as “having a good sense of humor.” That means laughing at View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

product in small-scale beauty salons and then also to electrologists. He also started up a mail-order business, all out of the 400-square-foot bungalow. He was tireless and worked hard to earn some early successes; one day, one of his better beauty shop customers View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

customer. All the aspects of the profession that had to do with promoting change and overcoming resistance made the figure of the salesperson popular to fiction writers—and most of the characterizations have been negative, from jokes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

when bosses fail to realize that they're not communicating clearly. Kanter cites an old joke as an example: A man drives to a gas station to fill up his tank, and the attendant can't help noticing that there's a penguin in the backseat of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Property), lured by the prospect of exciting careers in a hot market. But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? I don't see risks that you would associate with a bubble.—Stephen Lebovitz, CBL & Associates... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

industries like software. “Industry is not destiny.” Take the airline business, for example, which, over its history, has an accumulated net loss in the billions—a classic B-school example of a structurally unattractive industry. A joke... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

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