by Francesca Gino - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

most people don’t,” says Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “People overestimate the negative consequences giving feedback for themselves, as well as underestimate the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

doesn't matter because we're already distracted by the sun," Gino explains. "But on bad weather days, people tend to make more errors and perform more slowly when you just make them think about outside... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

media on the train, may actually interfere with people’s ability to transition into work mode smoothly—which makes them feel gloomier about their jobs and more likely to quit. “I was surprised with this finding myself,” Harvard Business School Professor View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

students’ performance on standardized tests.” Published in the February 15 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study was authored by Hans Henrik Sievertsen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Danish National... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

interested in improving their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor at Harvard Business School and author of Rebel Talent, began researching the conversation styles of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

amnesia? Prior research had shown that when people behave badly, they experience cognitive dissonance—their brains are addled by simultaneously believing in doing the right thing and actually doing the wrong thing. So Kouchaki and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

When Harvard Business School Associate Professor Francesca Gino invites high-powered business leaders to address her class, she often observes an interesting phenomenon. The guest speakers announce that they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

something we’d rather avoid than engage in with confidence,” explained Francesca Gino, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit at Harvard Business School during the event.... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

News

Workplace Rebellion: Lotte Jeffs On Francesca Gino’s New Book, Rebel Talent: Why It Pays To Break The Rules In Work And In Life

30 Apr 2018
News

How to Be a Rebel Leader

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, studies how people can lead more... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

05 Jun 2017
News

How to Make Friends by Asking Questions

Article

Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety

By: Alison Wood Brooks, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I. Norton and Maurice Schweitzer

From public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Performance; Emotions

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25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

University of California at Berkeley; Zachariah S. Sharek, Carnegie Mellon University; and Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School. "Across all our studies, the results suggest that experts take high performance as evidence of high... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

Article

Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent

By: Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton

We examine how a simple handshake—a gesture that often occurs at the outset of social interactions—can influence deal-making. Because handshakes are social rituals, they are imbued with meaning beyond their physical features. We propose that during mixed-motive... View Details

Keywords: Handshake; Cooperation; Affiliation; Competition; Negotiation; Nonverbal Communication; Negotiation Participants; Behavior; Communication Intention and Meaning; Negotiation Deal

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting