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- August 2023
- Supplement
Reimagining Hindustan Unilever (B)
By: Sunil Gupta and Rachna Tahilyani
In April 2023, as the CEO and MD of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), India’s largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) firm, prepared to hand over the firm’s reins to his successor, he proudly reflected on the last decade. His quest to digitally transform HUL into an...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
organization, why men believe women are more emotionally intelligent, and the challenges female directors of corporations face in interacting with their male counterparts. 2006 pub Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and...
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Anna Secino
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
the behavior leads to a negative rather than a positive outcome. We also find that people's willingness to punish wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Entry, Exit...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
on the individual level, or on tracing a line from the macro to the micro level, Higgins is taking a separate yet complementary path for exploration: examining large-scale organizational dynamics from the...
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by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
management to the wrong kinds of tasks. As he put it, " in places where creative solutions are needed time management or micro management is a difficult concept to grasp." Francis Wade said that "Our research reveals that...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
the social mission. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives,” says Julie Battilana, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. “The...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
Summing Up How Important is Leadership Gender in Influencing the Way We Work? Any attempt to describe behaviors on the basis of gender runs the risk of stereotyping, generalizing, and generally oversimplifying. As Susan Chipman said in...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
improvisational music. Skillful improvising in a negotiation occurs at both the micro and macro levels; a solid understanding of both allows you to skillfully guide the improvisation, rather than letting the negotiation evolve...
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by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work By: Moore, C., and F. Gino Abstract—Many of the scandalous organizational practices that have come to light in the last decade-rigging LIBOR, misselling...
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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
Presentation date: November 2, 2004 The following is a summary of the virtual seminar covering: The definition, levels, and cycles of confidence. How leaders prevent losing streaks and instill organizational confidence. The keys to...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
explains Michel Anteby, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Filiz Garip of Harvard University, Paul V. Martorana of Wagner...
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- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Publications October 2014 Harvard Business Review Press Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—There are many books that provide strategy advice and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2000
- Chapter
Environmental Destruction: Individual, Organizational, and Institutional Explanations
By: M. H. Bazerman and A. J. Hoffman
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
has to know the answer to four basic questions. Your setting for this span is determined by the kind of behavior you want to see. To ensure compliance with detailed directives, hold managers to narrow measures. To encourage creative...
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by Robert Simons
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
from the organizational theory and behavioral literature that business historians have not adequately tapped into. Part of the problem is that historians often have to speak to dead people, who naturally are...
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by Sean Silverthorne