Opposition - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

acquisitions of public companies and private acquisitions of companies that were already private. In public-to-private deals, employment after acquisition falls by an average of 13 percent relative to similar firms that did not undergo a buyout; private-to-private... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

29 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

just a little bit junior or senior to you, but they might still expose you to novel information,” he says. The principle works in the opposite direction, for hiring managers as well. Managers should be expanding their networks so when it... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

person’s emotions transfer to another. Moreover, those who had seen mostly negative content produced more negative posts and fewer positive posts. For those who had seen mostly positive posts, the opposite occurred. For Goldenberg, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

however, show significant correlations in opposite directions: In areas where inequality is driven by the difference between low-income and medium-to-high-income earners, we find higher obesity. Meanwhile, in areas where inequality is... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

reducing the salesforce. Instead of cutting staff, however, Watanabe took the opposite approach, reassuring employees the company would do everything it could to retain jobs, deliver health and emotional support to victims, and contribute... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

When an algorithm recommends ways to improve business outcomes, do employees trust it? Conventional wisdom suggests that understanding the inner workings of artificial intelligence (AI) can raise confidence in such programs. Yet, new research finds the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

and sold between the two countries. Could it be defended at home as a step toward curbing inflation in the US? Maybe, although economists have told us that the effects would be small. How much of it would actually trickle down to consumers? The primary View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

20 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

As global companies increasingly adopt a dominant language, usually English, which all employees must use to simplify communications and increase collaboration, many are dismayed to find an unexpected outcome. Results are exactly opposite... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

Philosophers have been debating what constitutes a just distribution of power for millennia, and many people are tempted to think that the philosopher’s study is precisely where the topic belongs. In fact, the opposite is true: The... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

07 May 2012
Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

integrative bargaining. The debate over which type of negotiation strategy is better has been raging since the early 1980s, when two books came out focusing on opposite sides of the issue. In You Can Negotiate Anything, Herb Cohen made an... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

Most eight-year-olds are familiar with cooties: an imaginary infectious disease spread through proximity to children of the opposite sex. We eventually outgrow the silly idea. But when it comes to the world of consumer products, fear of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

04 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges

Keywords: by James Sebenius

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

less so with the age of residents and racial composition of a neighborhood. Growth in grocery stores, bars, restaurants, and cafes—especially the pricier places—were good predictors of an uptick in the number of college-educated residents within a particular area. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

much competition pushes them in the opposite direction. The findings could help organizations generate more innovative ideas, sharpen R&D, and even improve “bake-off” competitions between vendors used to award contracts. “You could... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

receptiveness, according to Gino: Actively acknowledge the other perspective. You can do this by saying things like: "I understand that...," or "You are saying ..." Acknowledging the opposing view doesn't mean that you agree with it—it simply means that you've been... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

ones." While they would seem to create the risk of more top-down management, the opposite effect happens. Could you give some examples of positive effects in companies you've seen? What activities should OSMs not be involved in? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks

Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

and mortgage and automobile companies employed—approaches that are diametrically opposite to those outlined in my book and discussed here. These firms did dumb things because their leaders did not make the principled choices outlined... View Details