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- 2018
- Working Paper
Class Matters: The Role of Social Class and Organizational Sector in High-Achieving Women's Legitimacy Narratives
By: Judith A. Clair, Rachel D. Arnett, Katherine Chen, Beth K. Humberd and Kathleen L. McGinn
While prior research recognizes that women struggle to maintain legitimacy for their successes and that self-narratives play a key role in building such legitimacy, theory provides limited insight into how women build legitimacy through their self-narratives. Our... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Gender; Success; Diversity; Perception; Situation or Environment
Clair, Judith A., Rachel D. Arnett, Katherine Chen, Beth K. Humberd, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Class Matters: The Role of Social Class and Organizational Sector in High-Achieving Women's Legitimacy Narratives." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-014, August 2018. (Revised August 2018 for requested resubmission.)
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
kindness does not. The value and rewards of kindness have been touted by leaders as legendary as King Solomon and Desmond Tutu to latter-day executives like General Motors CEO Mary Barra, known for her inclusive, employee-centric style. Kindness is teachable. Ritchie... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
psychology and politics over the centuries. Are two heads better than one, or do too many cooks spoil the broth? Does the collective will of the majority lead to democratic consensus or fundamentalist groupthink? The massive, ongoing... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Where Is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location
By: Arthur Daemmrich
A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Disorders; Health Testing and Trials; Power and Influence; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
Daemmrich, Arthur. "Where Is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-118, April 2009.
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009) Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African American... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
AI system contain bias, she contended, the outputs will contain the same bias, a problem that multiplies as the size of the dataset grows. In 2020, Gebru and Emily Bender, a linguistics professor at the University of Washington, led the... View Details
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
University, and Alice Lee-Yoon, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. A worrisome pattern of work, work, work With three experiments, a survey, and a large dataset, the research team arrived at the same... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
2015 Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has... View Details
- Web
Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Research at Harvard Business School in 1926. His papers contain personal correspondence, articles and speeches, notebooks from his student days at the University of Adelaide, teaching notes and committee records from Harvard Business... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
many workers fleeing positions in hopes of finding something better. De Freitas partnered with Michael Prinzing, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, and Barbara Fredrickson, a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
their origins about three decades ago, the Behavioral Science areas of economics, ethics and managerial psychology have been rapidly evolving. In the 1980's and 1990's, early work by Max Bazerman in judgment and negotiation , Matthew... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
the new book Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business. Battilana co-wrote the book with Tiziana Casciaro, a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. “Cultivating humility and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
He teaches the MBA course, Managing the Financial Firm, as well as the Ph.D. course, Corporate Finance and Banking. Scharfstein has published on a broad range of topics in finance. Andrei Shleifer John L. Loeb Professor of Economics, Harvard View Details
- Web
Partners - Case Method Project
Saratoga High School Saratoga, CA Subjects: Grade 12 AP U.S. Government, Grade 12 Standard Economics, Grade 11/12 Psychology elective CA 9 of 65 Deb Christenson Wildwood Middle-Upper School Los Angeles, CA CA 10 of 65 Rhonda Clements... View Details
- January 2020
- Article
One of a Kind: The Strong and Complex Preference for Unique Treatment from Romantic Partners
By: Lalin Anik and Ryan Hauser
Individuals prefer romantic partners who universally treat others well (i.e., partners who exhibit trait-level generosity) and also prefer partners who treat them uniquely. Previous work supports both preferences, yet the literature has largely ignored what happens... View Details
Anik, Lalin, and Ryan Hauser. "One of a Kind: The Strong and Complex Preference for Unique Treatment from Romantic Partners." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 86 (January 2020).
- 2010
- Working Paper
Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the sixth of six pre-course reading assignments for an experimental leadership course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Curriculum and Courses; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Attitudes; Behavior; United States; Netherlands; Texas
Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger. "Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-091, April 2010.
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Marco Piovesan, an associate economics professor at the University of Copenhagen and a former research fellow at HBS. “It suggests that having breaks prior to testing is... View Details