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  • 21 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

of corporate fraud, considerations of intent dominate the details of compliance or noncompliance with arcane legal rules. This is the right message to send to the American business community. The behavior that became so widespread and... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Social Innovation Goes Mainstream

using capital as a source of leverage for social benefit,” he said. Acknowledging his optimism about the future, Greenblatt declared, “Young people are looking for ways to engage. Service is the new greed.” 2009 Leadership fellows: Twenty-one graduating MBAs have taken... View Details
Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

Stone (MBA 1997), now president of Montage. “It was an issue that touched us all personally, so we decided to start a com-pany that would promote more positive portrayals of women and minorities and provide more employment opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Information
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists Making a Difference is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Expanding Horizons

Nishant Sharma (MBA 2006) For Nishant Sharma (MBA 2006), cofounder and managing director of Kedaara Capital Advisors LLP in Mumbai, the impact of HBS has been significant. While the School has had a positive influence on his life, Nishant... View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications

By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich and Michael I. Norton
Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them. In laboratory... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Surveys; Wealth and Poverty; Behavior; Income; Research; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Personal Characteristics; Economics
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  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a global service provider. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2019
  • News

Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

maintain competitiveness in a situation where China essentially says: ‘First we will buy from you, but then we will do it ourselves.’ It gets very complicated.” Still, Shih added that the U.S. aerospace industry is strong enough to maintain its View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance. Advocates of goal setting have had a substantial impact on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2016
  • News

The Real Meaning of Love

healthy relationship with your loved one? “And we’re trying to position this not as a women’s issue or domestic violence issue alone—it’s really a public health issue. It’s really a community health issue, and that’s the way we should... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

December 2017 Journal of Creative Behavior In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)

George P. Baker offered him a full-time faculty position at the School. Shortly after that, the Pentagon called again, this time asking Fox to be assistant secretary of the Army, the senior government official responsible for Army... View Details
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; J. Sterling Livingston; George P. Baker; Government
  • 21 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

millions of customers are able to track how marketing investments affect individual customer's behavior. Every aspect of behavior is being monitored—a customer's first encounter with the firm, the initial and subsequent purchases, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Experiment 1). In addition, we find that participants who were primed to think creatively were more likely to behave dishonestly than those in a control condition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2013
  • News

Connections Add Up

policy. "I loved that course because it really had the general manager's approach in each case. It allowed me to experience being a general manager, taking the whole business view, not just the accounting aspect, positioning the company,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • July 2002
  • Case

Introducing ... The XFL!

By: Susan M. Fournier, Stephen A. Greyser and Seth Schulman
When the XFL professional football league debuted on February 3, 2001, it generated a Nielsen rating of 10.1, higher than any nationally televised program in a Saturday evening time slot. The next week, ratings plummeted, and by week nine the XFL game earned the title... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Culture; Commercialization
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  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

  Publications June 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior By: Ayal, S., F. Gino, R. Barkan, and D. Ariely Abstract— Dishonesty and unethical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

to their neighbors or boosting their positive feelings? Findings & implications Our findings have implications for both consumers and the design-side of waste disposal. We find that when given a “social recycling” (or... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

of that can, in fact, be counterproductive. Q: Could you give an example of that? A: Frei: Well, we're all pretty familiar with the litany of problems in health care, but let me give you an example of a renowned health care organization that has embraced the concept of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service