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- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
LinkedIn, Google and increasingly networked communities means that every leader has the informal equivalent of a “Yelp” score that will come to light. If people see their leaders as trustworthy and willing to learn, followers will respond very View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011) Abstract Two independent, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
non-expert group, the researchers found. This shows what the authors called a “feasibility preference.” Novel ideas appear riskier to experts Why do experts react this way? The behavior of chess masters offers some clues, the authors say.... View Details
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
between managers and team members that might be difficult to gauge any other way. Combing through data that included 10,673 managers and 2,316 firms from 2010 to 2019, the researchers examined the characteristics of managers who include others, how their View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
candidates and asked them to rank their top three choices. Some of these sets employed standard algorithms, which generally included only three women who ranked near the bottom of the list; others used fair-ranking algorithms, which represented women proportionately... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
significance, and a legacy. Juggling all four at once is a trick that requires constant practice. People who fit our conventional notions of success display a lot of positive features, said Stevenson. But take a closer look and a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
data to decipher traits belonging to toxic workers. The result was anonymized personal data of almost 60,000 workers from 11 firms, about 70 percent of which were based in the United States. The positions were similar front-line, customer... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
somewhere between "sometimes" and "frequently," meaning they assumed that they engaged in bad behavior less than the partner who did it "frequently"-yet they still chose the other partner. "I thought... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write.... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
interview, conducted via e-mail. Q: In general, what relationship did you find between companies you identified as short-term-oriented, their investors, and the behavior of their stocks? Francois Brochet: Overall, we found a View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
Clinton's “Stronger Together” is also inclusive but it evokes process, not that process isn't important, but the desired outcome is much less clear. Good marketers know that, if you don't position your brand clearly, your competitors will... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
Although CEOs hold positions of power, many can feel powerless in certain ways—particularly when it comes to influencing the behaviors and performance of their employees. Yet perhaps they aren’t taking the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
most small restaurants in smaller communities wouldn't get reviews to begin with if it weren't for the review sites, and for every eatery that suffers under the weight of a bad review there are presumably others boosted by positive... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
now what? The most troubling consequences of this election are not for those women in leadership positions who are pushing forward to break new ground, although it is clearly a disappointment for those of us who hope to see more women in... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- March 2022
- Article
Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products
By: Kris Ferreira, Sunanda Parthasarathy and Shreyas Sekar
We consider the product ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers”: they form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial positions and then decide whether to continue... View Details
Keywords: Online Learning; Product Ranking; Assortment Optimization; Learning; Internet and the Web; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce
Ferreira, Kris, Sunanda Parthasarathy, and Shreyas Sekar. "Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products." Management Science 68, no. 3 (March 2022): 1828–1848.
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
Thought Theory (UTT); namely, that unconscious thought is a bottom-up process, whereas conscious thought is a top-down process. In two experiments on impression formation, participants read behavioral information about a fictitious person... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
damaging to the academic enterprise. We surveyed over 2,000 psychologists about their involvement in questionable research practices, using an anonymous elicitation format supplemented by incentives for honest reporting. The impact of incentives on admission rates was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
destroy health, wealth, and life itself. The issues span the ethical spectrum: falsified books and records, misleading communications, defective and dangerous products shipped without warnings or information, abusive behavior and unsafe... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
characteristics, relationships, and behavioral norms. We suggest that an equally important trust mechanism is "reflected knowledge," knowledge focal actors' gain about the personal characteristics, relationships, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne