Could Mindset - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

company's vision." Charlie Efford added that "The key to self-management becoming embedded is changing the mindset of the management team. Most corporations haven't made this shift." Denis Collet suggested "it's all... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

commented that this mindset "leads to poor morale and burn out," as well as a loss of effective communication skills. Gerald Nanninga added that "it is destroying the art of pondering" and "by valuing work as a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

behaviors led to undesirable consequences, even if they saw those behaviors as acceptable before they knew the consequences. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that a rational, analytic mindset can override the effects of one's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

could choose either an organic or a nonorganic option—a carton of milk, for example. In monitoring what they called "indulgent" purchases, the researchers looked at sugary items like ice cream and candy bars, as well as salty... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

I wanted to do it more empirically, tracking variables that were previously unfathomable to measure beyond proxies and guessing. The advent of wearables meant I could do exactly that. “There’s a lot of interest in open offices because so... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

segregation and could be contributing to growing wage inequality among workers in the last generation. Decades ago, companies employed their own janitors, cafeteria workers, and other low-wage support staff. Now, companies often look to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

scientific field of trachoma control forward and now had the opportunity to "finish the job." That is, it could help to make operational its research in a way that directly improved the lives of disadvantaged people, the core... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

forecasts become accurate, which is quite an optimistic finding for cooperation,” Lees says. “If you can actually engender cooperation, people are much more likely to have accurate perceptions that might drive reconciliatory behavior.” In a final experiment, Lees and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

insurance and bank supervision) worked to stabilize the financial system; (2) that the financial catastrophe of 2007-2009 was not an accident, but rather a mistake, driven by a deregulatory mindset that took 50 years of post-New Deal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

use of things like drones [for monitoring energy production], how could you possibly not think your industry is going to be disrupted?” he asks. In fact, with the rapid rate of societal and technological change today, no industry is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “The psychology is powerful. That feeling of being in first or last place affects our thoughts, emotions, and behavior.” Although the research focuses on aircraft design, its findings View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

remote monitoring service for cardiac device patients, which hit the market well before 2010 (the FDA approved it in January 2002). It was only by thinking in terms of "reinvention," says George, that this could have been... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

weaponry. (Many managers today must feel hopeless against an invisible foe that always seems a step ahead.) Boyd realized he could narrow the gap by working out the best possible approaches to deal with rapid change. Similarly, an Agile... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

1930s, where it was noticed that direct labor costs tended to decrease by a constant percentage as the cumulative quantity of aircraft produced doubled. Learning effects figured prominently in wartime production planning efforts. World War II also encouraged the View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

wrong, especially given that many of the early FBC missions had been tremendously successful. And I was convinced that the answers could help inform a wide variety of situations in which organizations were attempting the type of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote individuals' ability to justify their behavior, which, in turn, leads to unethical behavior. In five studies, we show that participants with creative personalities tended to cheat... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

work? A: Many firms adopt what we call a "production outsourcing" mindset to collaboration. This is typified by a focus on lowering cost at the expense of other potentially more valuable benefits. These firms view collaboration as a form... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

eighteen94 was conceived as a platform for giving Kellogg access to the kinds of skills, products, and ingredients that could help drive future growth. It was also a vehicle for changing mindsets and culture... View Details