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- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
Last summer, Christine Exley polled 200 American adults with a simple yes/no question: Do you think women should negotiate their salaries more often? Seventy percent of respondents answered in the affirmative. She wasn’t surprised by the response. Just as there’s a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities
My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
organization's management team can do is be transparent (and) persistently continue open conversation and not expect to be perfect." Karl Hunrick suggested that we need to employ more managers willing to take risk, because... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
result of COVID- 19,” the researchers conclude. “This would represent a dramatic and persistent shift in workplace norms around remote work, and has implications for companies, employees, and policymakers alike.” The working paper, What... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
the reasons that the policies persist but seek a way to categorize them via their effects on inventory levels, orders placed and the demand faced by the inventory system. Using a perspective that we consider natural and thus appealing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
danger of failing before, now your anxiety has made failure a foregone conclusion. We've all experienced the crippling effects of job performance anxiety. But far from being uniquely relegated to nightmare scenarios like the one outlined... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
firms often hunt for target companies they see as undervalued. By cutting costs or reorganizing, the acquirer can improve productivity and position the firm for profitable operations or a future sale. In some quarters, fears persist that... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Globalization Globalization December 2014 Article Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World By: Paul M. Healy , George Serafeim , Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu We examine how... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van Reenen Abstract— We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
engineering, and mathematics) labor market trends. And in geographic regions where competition is fiercest for IT talent, superstar performers do not earn the same high premium they once did over their average-performing peers. In short,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
influence, intermittent social influence, or no social influence. Groups in the intermittent social-influence treatment found the optimum solution frequently (like groups without influence) but had a high mean performance (like groups... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
balance sheet constraints and bond liquidity By: Johannes Breckenfelder & Victoria Ivashina SEP 2021 The authors explore the ties between bonds and individual dealers formed through home advantage and the persistence of previous... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Notably, the result persists after controlling for a host of factors that may influence bidding, but disappears when the appeal for charity is replaced by an appeal to bid for other reasons. Implications for the link between religion and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
relation between budgeting type and budgetary misreporting. Results also indicate asymmetry in the effects of psychological contract breach versus repair. Effects of breach on budgetary misreporting persist even after the breach no longer... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
people in the higher ranks of Unilever, yet compared to most companies, Unilever was distinguished worldwide by competent and professional management. The challenge was to translate these strengths into a competitive performance that... View Details
- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
little to contribute to processes of creation and innovation. While asking "What isn't management's role in innovation?," Michelle Malay Carter states the case this way: "Nearly all current performance management models are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
"Why is there such a persistent gap between ambition and performance?" ask Robert Kaplan and David P. Norton in "The Office of Strategy Management" in the October 2005 Harvard Business Review. "The gap arises, we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
environmental factors created by a persistent virus. It’s as if the success and gains made in 2021 with vaccinations and the incremental return to work and school policies have made leaders at different echelons reluctant to admit that... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
higher education and beyond can realize change by working with, not against, change-makers even when board members and community leaders stand in opposition. Bold collaboration, significant due diligence, and persistence are integral to... View Details