Tolerance - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

disadvantaged geographies and nascent industries, and they exhibit more risk tolerance and patience. However, the authors also find employee satisfaction tends to decline once an impact investment is made. “In their mind, if they give a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

field like social work that usually has a higher tolerance for emotional displays? “Where [reframing] really helps is if you’re in an environment where emotion isn’t acceptable,” Wolf says. “If you’re in an organization where people don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

themselves much more than men, who tend to overestimate their performance. Showed more impatience than men and women, but their risk tolerance fell somewhere between men and women. Preferred solitary work. They were less likely to want to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

time, cause impaired immune functioning, hypertension, and memory loss). The result? In addition to causing the desired hormonal shift, the power poses led to increased feelings of power and a greater tolerance for risk. "We used to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

Datassential also in May, 75 percent of consumers said safety was more important than visiting their favorite restaurant and 64 percent said they will definitely avoid eating out. Customers with higher risk tolerances have patronized... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

been the right choice for people with chronic and painful arthritis who could not tolerate other painkillers, but not for someone with a less compelling need for pain relief. Legally astute managers are better equipped to take those... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

to reduce the pain created by dental work. On the third day, certain patients received an injection of saline but were told it was a powerful painkiller. Those who received this placebo tolerated the pain much better than would normally... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Unilever's business in the United States. There was also a culture change as Unilever shifted from a company that tolerated underperformance to one that did not. The implementation of this culture change and of the core business strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

why immigrants are more entrepreneurial, says Kerr. One set of explanations focuses on the mindset required to migrate: “The very act of someone moving around the world, often leaving family behind, might select those who are very determined or more View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

phenomena, not causation of one by another).” He goes on to present anecdotal counter evidence: “Silicon Valley has been wildly successful, though notoriously homogeneous. Yuval Harari points out that Cairo and Istanbul were diverse and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

Space Administration not only tolerated but applauded the phenomenon in the Canal Zone. The result was that American aid transfers to Panama soon began to overshadow the revenues from the canal. In short, the United States no longer had... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

leave the company. The researchers made other discoveries as well, which might have something to say about wage inequality and widening pay gaps in corporations. The findings suggest: “Female employees may be able to tolerate being paid... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

going to be really fun. So there is a lot of discussion about tolerance for failure, experimenting, collaboration, and all sorts of other really pleasant things. But, there is a harsh reality of innovative cultures. They are not much fun.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

productivity and growth. And as the Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman has shown, growth has moral consequences in terms of a society’s tolerance for diversity, social mobility, correcting inequalities, and democratic values. CEOs who... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

executives, led by Ken Lay, created an extreme performance-oriented culture that both institutionalized and tolerated deviant behavior. It's a story about a group of executives who created a world that they could not understand and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

fashion at the commission there was no need to 'rock the boat,'" he wrote. "I tolerated more than I should have." The student ended his essay with some concrete suggestions on how to reform the commission. "They each... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

perspective, such incidents raise a question of how risk-averse space exploration companies will want to be, Weinzierl says. “Because we've had mostly government astronauts, the policy has been that there is zero tolerance for fatalities.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

requires a spirit of inquiry and openness, patience, and a tolerance for ambiguity. However, most managers admire and are rewarded for decisiveness, efficiency, and action rather than for deep reflection and painstaking analysis. Third,... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While that View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

Organizations stand to benefit when ideas are cross-fertilized and diverse individuals learn to work together. "Outsiders" can introduce valuable ideas. Learning and execution are often at odds: Learning by its nature involves uncertainty, false starts, and occasional... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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