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- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
Kroger, Amazon, and many others have experienced similar conflicts. A recent study finds that “toxic culture”—unethical leadership behavior and disregard for employees’ health, diversity, financial security, and self-respect—is a far more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
give you fabulous strategic recommendations," he says. "Looking to up-and-comers is not only quite effective in getting great strategic advice but also in motivating these future leaders." Do... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
leaders in technical firms, which increasingly rely on teams to carry out strategically important projects, including adopting external innovations and developing new technologies internally. "As teams become even more widely used to... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
identification. Download the paper: http://www.imanet.org/pdf/11_09_epstein.pdf Nameless + Harmless = Blameless: When Seemingly Irrelevant Factors Influence Judgment of (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino, Lisa Lixin Shu, and Max... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
challenge. The case helps students examine the implicit assumptions managers make in organizing work inside a factory. These assumptions reflect theories of worker behavior and motivation in combination with managers' beliefs of what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm behavior; second, that firms notice and imitate the behaviors of firms from the same prior industry; and third, that as firms gain experience with particular features, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
delayed price discovery). This isolates a setting wherein observed strategic trading behavior more likely reflects insiders' private information regarding goodwill, as opposed to other (non-goodwill related)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
or sculpture from the Tate collection, chosen based on the location, weather, and ambient noise surrounding the shaker. “Often there isn't a lot of strategic thinking behind their decision to be in social media” The provocative app is... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
having lied in negotiations, and everyone believes they've been lied to in these contexts," Malhotra says. "We may be able to improve the situation if we can equip people to detect and deter the unethical behavior of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Working PapersFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior Authors:Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Abstract While lay intuitions and pop psychology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55884 April 2019 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence By: Blasco,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to behaviors impacting the environment.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business (Harvard Business Press). Gulati, whose research explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets, is the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
negative emotions, lower intrinsic motivation, and less favorable perceptions of the organization-with negative consequences for performance. These actions include signaling low expectations for innovation; switching strategic direction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
defined and measured for impact on the bottom line. It was more than 40 years after researchers Fritz Roethlisberger and William Dickson first suggested the impact on performance of some behaviors that would be included under the umbrella... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Do Incumbents Fare in the Face of Increased Service Competition?
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Carney Abstract This experiment tested whether changing one's nonverbal behavior prior to an important social evaluation could improve performance on the evaluated task. Participants adopted expansive, open (high-power) poses or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
diversity that goes beyond rhetoric. But what motivates them to do so, and how do they actually create inclusive cultures? To find out, the authors interviewed 24 CEOs whose firms were known for embracing people of all backgrounds. These executives saw diversity as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f0a1b93d#/f0a1b93d/12 Working PapersLocation Choices under Strategic Interactions Author:Juan Alcacer Abstract The literature on location... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne