Relational Identity - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

the early years of the 20th century, as much as any business in America, is marked by dramatic changes in the context in which CEOs had the opportunity to forge their identity and the fortunes of their companies," the authors write... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces (Experiment 3). These experiments suggest that mind perception is a dynamic process in which relevant contextual information such as social identity and out-group threat change the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

business-unit managers choose local measures that influence, but are not necessarily identical to the corporate scorecard measures. The most remarkable transformations and partnerships occur in support functions and shared services, such... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

of people's daily lives, say Rangan and Chu of Harvard Business School and Petkoski of the World Bank. Start by dividing the base of the pyramid into three segments according to people's earnings and related personal needs: 1) Low income:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

overcome them. In doing so, I suggest that we consider these challenges in terms of internal and external pressures related to both identity and resources. Building on existing research, I then identify four... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

by relating it to decision making that would help reduce costs for the manager as well. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-021.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAffinity Labs, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 809-019... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

these attitudes using a survey of Syrian refugees in Turkey conducted in 2016 by asking two questions: (i) Does the framing of wartime experience as “suffering” verses “sacrifice” shift attitudes about acceptable conflict outcomes? (ii) How does the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

Stereotype Content Model Authors:P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy, and S.T. Fiske Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public offering and,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these proximate subsidiaries... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

"Wei Ge" (Great Brother), arguing that the term was not a well-known trademark in China. With two lawsuits related to intellectual property rights now pending in China, Pfizer wondered whether trade politics or the rule of law... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

Populations By: Gray, Kurt, David G. Rand, Eyal Ert, Kevin Lewis, Steve Hershman, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Psychological explanations of group genesis often require population heterogeneity in identity or other characteristics,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2018
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Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

there in sufficient numbers that they’re not all alone and cringing in the face of a dominant figure who can control their fate,” says Kanter, author of Men and Women of the Corporation, a book about corporate power, particularly as it View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Cavallo, Alberto, W. Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

David, and Stefan Spinler Abstract—Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52673 Harvard Business School Case 517-050 Beingmate Founded in 2002, Hangzhou, China–based Beingmate was a major producer of infant formula and related products in the high-demand Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

Identity—Team members must be active cultural learners and teachers to understand one another's identity and avoid misinterpreting behaviors. Technology—When choosing between videoconferencing, e-mail, and other modes of communication,... View Details

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

issues relating to fostering innovation. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Kerr_Kerr_Lincoln_WP14_IPEFirms.pdf Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—This paper... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details