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Social Learning

One major area of my research is social learning: the ways and extent to which people discover what they want and need from the behavior and opinions of others. Social learning takes many forms. Probably most obvious is word of mouth—the advice and... View Details

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55030 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Precautionary Bidding in Auctions

Joint work with Peter Esö, MEDS Department, Kellogg School of Management

We analyze bidding behavior in auctions when risk-averse bidders bid for an object whose value is risky. We show... View Details

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When Cultural Worlds Collide: Investigating the Cross-Cultural Multiple Audience Problem

Today, many individuals have social networks that span cultural boundaries. For example, you may have a network of colleagues in China, friends and family in the U.S., and a group of childhood friends in Greece. Chances are, you are probably comfortable interacting... View Details

Keywords: Cross-cultural Networks; Multiple Audience Problem; Managing Multiple Identities

June 24, 2020
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Wolfgang Puck on Leading His Restaurants Through the Pandemic

By: Boris Groysberg

Chef Wolfgang Puck shares his experience leading his restaurants and other businesses through the pandemic crisis. He explains how his company has pivoted to find new sources of revenue and how he has become a vocal advocate for the restaurant industry. He also... View Details

Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Restaurants; Restaurant Industry; Reopening; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Safety

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08 Sep 2009
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The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

Should tall people pay higher taxes than the rest of us? It is an idea that is bound to raise eyebrows, if not a smile. Yet the underlying notion is not entirely silly, grounded as it is in serious questions about why we tax the way we do View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

nearly fifty former executives--many of whom have never spoken about their crimes—Professor Soltes shows that white-collar criminals are not merely driven by excessive greed or hubris, nor do they usually carefully calculate the costs and... View Details

28 Sep 2023
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Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

Clubs News Clubs News Guided by Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the HBS Global Alumni Clubs & Associations Network provides thousands of opportunities to create View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service

05 Jun 2020
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How to recognize the signs of burnout from stress

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

have in common? They know that productivity relies on making certain choices: the way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the cultures we establish as... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

presentations on stage, whether they are Shakespeare, Beethoven, or The Lion King, depend on a business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

fulfillment. You must share the reason why you exist and infuse it into everything you do in order to thrive. Many leaders see the shift in the market and make an effort to... View Details

August 2017
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Wake Up Call

By: David G. Fubini and Christine Snively

In 1993, three consultants at different stages in their careers must decide how to respond to what they considered to be unethical behavior from a partner at their firm. They each considered the potential consequences of reporting a senior colleague and the impact it... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Judgments; Leadership Style; Ethics; Consulting Industry; United States

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Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

individuals can increase their service time, up to a point, to complete work more quickly. As the number of tasks increases, however, workers may also manage their workload by a different process—task selection. Drawing on research on workload, individual discretion,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 1999
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Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

retain decision making and control at the center, where they could be managed by those who understood the subtleties of the system. Kao's international expansion was impaired... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

You Soar, Adams recounts her humble childhood and the challenges she faced as a young girl, and how she overcame them and went on to live the life of her dreams. After... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

when it leads to damaging behavior and may never notice the correlation in others’ advice even when that failure leads her to follow repetitive advice too much. More generally, we show that for every error... View Details