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- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
"Denial might be best categorized as a form of risk taking." Aruna Sharma pointed out that "It's all about buying time to see if something can be done to reverse the trend ." Joe Schmid opined, "Denial is the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
extensive research, observation, and practice. For example, a marriage counselor, by breaking down films of couples talking with each other, carefully categorizing behavior patterns, and doing this for years, has prepared himself (and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
all the previous years combined. Investment initiatives are around participating in the information flow. We [at Accel] are interested in companies that help us understand how to structure information, communicate, categorize some of that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
crisis. In this article, Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes present a categorization of risk that allows executives to understand the qualitative distinctions between the types of risks that organizations face. Preventable risks, arising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
political conflict and individual and group biases occasioned by organizational differentiation. We categorize the sources of functional bias into intentional, driven by misalignment of incentives, and unintentional resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
abnormal returns also are positively correlated with CEOs’ tendency to focus their speech more on work-related topics than personal topics. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53858 A New Categorization... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
increasingly fold Web advertising into their media mix. Deighton and Barwise categorize current Web advertisers as either incumbents, traditional brick-and-mortar organizations that have ventured onto the Internet, or pure-plays, firms... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
experimentation that is required for the initial commercialization and diffusion of technologies. A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
categorization effect persisted regardless of whether the rewards were presented using a gain or loss frame. Using both moderation and mediation analyses, we found that categorizing rewards had these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
Summing Up How do we close the gap between theory and results in selecting leaders? In discussing why our achievements in selecting leaders are less than stellar, contributors offered a rich set of ideas. Given their number, I've tried to View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Firms By: Raffaelli, Ryan, Mary Ann Glynn, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Why do incumbent firms so frequently reject non-incremental innovations? One reason is due to the firm’s top management team’s (TMT) lack of frame flexibility, i.e., an inability to expand the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Diamond Horseshoe," theater-impresario Randy Weiner created "The Queen of the Night," a hybrid performance that combines food, opera, circus arts, and dance. While "The Queen of the Night" is the latest in a string of productions View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
"green," as though there were a categorical answer. "Of course, the answer is, 'It depends.' The appropriate environmental policies for a firm depend on the firm's circumstances: the basic economics of its industry, its position within... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
new information technology as a way of categorizing and accessing information in an attempt to streamline a process that already exists. Adopting these systems can have significant implications for how individuals in firms interact with... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
Weakness' Interview Question In the first study, the researchers created a dataset of 740 items from the Twitter feed @Humblebrag. The brainchild of the late comedy writer Harris Wittels, the page lists real tweets categorized as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
develop a folding bicycle with the look and feel of a traditional bike," Tripsas remarks. "But if you mention a folding bicycle, most people conjure up an image of a small-wheeled, oddly shaped vehicle that they wouldn't View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
neuroscience, sociology, and anthropology to unpack fear as a discrete emotion and to elucidate its effects on workplace silence. In doing so, we move beyond prior descriptions and categorizations of what employees fear to present a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that identifies the entire capital structure for 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 1998 and 2009 and that covers over 71,000 different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne