Publications

07 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'

decisions. Troncoso adds that platforms must carefully design their recommendation systems, as practices like suggesting multiple freelancers for a particular job could further strengthen the use of pictures as tiebreakers. There are also... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

Article

In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known,... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Behavior; Innovation and Invention

Research Summary

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)

Conducting research on new management concepts in supply chain management like CPFR. Identifying best practices in the nine-step-CPFR process. Major differences in CPFR-implementation in the U.S., Europe, South America, Asia and Africa.Linking e-marketplaces in the... View Details

29 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

put their findings in perspective and offer a framework for future research, the researchers emphasized the nature of a patent examiner’s work, which requires little coordination with co-workers on a daily basis. Examiners perform their... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

2007
Article

Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

By: Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon and Kate Roloff

The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions about how members of newly formed teams learn to work together... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Practice; Groups and Teams; Research; Adaptation; Cooperation

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

do, provides actionable access to the source of performance. This actionable access to the source of performance opens up a new realm of opportunity for study and research and for new and more effective interventions, applications, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Education

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

A racial salary gap has persisted in the US for more than 50 years among minority groups, with Black people currently earning 30 to 35 percent less than Whites. Now new research shows that in addition to receiving smaller paychecks, Black... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jun 2022
Lecture

The Power of Trust

By: Sandra J. Sucher

We were delighted to be joined by Professor Sandra Sucher of Harvard Business School, a leading researcher on management practice and the author of The Power of Trust, to explore the core elements underpinning trust in business and to talk about some real-world... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Leadership

Winter 2001
Other Article

Competition and Antitrust: A Productivity-Based Approach to Evaluating Mergers and Joint Ventures

By: Michael E. Porter

This article seeks to contribute thinking on how the intellectual foundations of antitrust might be updated, based on a large body of theoretical and empirical research on company strategy, competition, and economic development. The aim is to outline a new direction... View Details

Keywords: Society; Strategy

31 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

American cities have experienced an alarming double-digit rise in hate crimes in recent years, due in part to factors like anti-Asian sentiment in the wake of the pandemic and racial strife following the murder of George Floyd. Now, new View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

October 2008
Article

Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen McGinn

We propose taking a two-level-game perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level One, candidates negotiate with employers. At Level Two, candidates negotiate with household members. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review research... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Negotiation; Research; Organizational Culture; Body of Literature; Jobs and Positions; Gender; Labor

2008
Chapter

Management Accounting in India

This chapter surveys the history, evolution, and current status of accounting systems and practices in India. Tracing the roots of Indian accounting systems to the ancient civilization of the Indus Valley, we discuss the accounting contributions of historical writings... View Details

Keywords: History; Accounting; India

Article

Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem

By: Jordi Quoidbach, June Gruber, Moira Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou and Michael I. Norton

Bridging psychological research exploring emotional complexity and research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce—and demonstrate the benefits of—emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience.... View Details

Keywords: Health; Diversity; Emotions

2017
Working Paper

In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known,... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Behavior; Innovation and Invention

SSRN

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

private organizations, however, the quasi-government agencies did not face the problems likely to be faced by a private agency in conducting the investment promotion tasks that are more like typical government tasks, such as servicing investors and cooperating with the... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

2018
Chapter

Organizational Remedies for Discrimination

By: R. Ely and A. Feldberg

Laws now exist to protect employees from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion, but workplace discrimination persists in latent forms. These “second-generation” forms of bias arise in workplace structures, practices, and patterns of interaction that... View Details

Keywords: Discrimination; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality