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- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
behavior that is enacted during interactions and observed by perceivers affects how those perceivers evaluate and respond to the actor, this experiment focused on how a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Alaskan Native communities at the time. A key question that interested Alsan and the researchers at Stanford was whether the representativeness of the study mattered for actual prescribing and use of new... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Misconduct: The Effect of Gradual Degradation on the Failure to Notice Others' Unethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Four laboratory studies show that people are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
from non-experts or not at all. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47824 August 2014 Administrative Science Quarterly The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details
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- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
make "vapes" attractive to children. Some states and cities responded with restrictions on sales and advertising, and, in April, the Financial Times reported that the... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
viewer's attention cannot be purchased by an advertiser but must be gained by the ad. Thus, he is helping advertisers to make online video ads so riveting that users want to watch them. His experimental research looks at the emotional... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
they need to make decisions about care. The government or a broad consortium of employers could jump-start the collection and dissemination process by agreeing on a standard... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
study was a concern that people aren’t saving enough, and that as a result, they won’t have an adequate standard of living in old age.” Beshears is part of the School’s Negotiation, Organizations, and... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
the room in order to force its owner to get out of bed. Beset by media attention and consumer interest but still at least a year away from the ability to debut Clocky, Nanda must navigate a series of challenges View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
managing risk in early-stage ventures. The case also addresses issues such as diversification and options preservation as well as the importance of trust and long-term relationships in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
disguise their character, their traits are recognizable to others. Character is on display as leaders structure their organizations and go about making decisions. Some prefer to be intimately involved in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 117 (2012) Abstract We investigate how, why and when activating economic schemas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
that is highly valued by them, but doesn't cost you a lot of money. For example, allocate more services to good customers. This could mean a designated line at the deli counter, or a ten items or less checkout line. You already have the buying View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
Self-Knowledge, Unconscious Thought, and Decision Making Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:In Handbook of Self-Knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
students) with real-world experience, one-on-one coaching relationships, a project-oriented curriculum, and time—appear to make it much less economically practical and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
the ones that scare me." These comments raise the question of how much theory tells us about selecting for harder to measure characteristics such as possible behaviors under fire and motives as opposed... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
Harvard Business School, professor Ananth Raman discussed the importance of empathy in customer-facing business. "As we're talking about things like retail efficiency and profitability, this is a topic that I think needs more attention,"... View Details