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- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
General Alberto Gonzales reportedly offered some variant of “I don’t recall” more than 60 times. “Unethical amnesia is a self-defense mechanism that people use to alleviate the dissonance they experience after they act dishonestly” It may...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
reader engagement. For the professionals, our story of Jim Barton often mirrors their own life experience, and has prompted many real CIOs to say to us "this is my life," "this book is about me," even (from one)...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
the topic based on his own experience as an outdoor wilderness instructor, an area in which the cost of failure is too high for people to learn only from their own experience. “Trial and error is not the way you want to learn rock...
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- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
For the most part, social media is what you make it. You choose whom to keep tabs on, who can follow you back, what you “like,” and which snippets of your life you reveal. But what if those carefully curated depictions are suddenly on the...
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by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
decisions to voluntarily submit to regulation. We study individuals' decisions to avoid monitoring or regulation and thus enhance their ability to engage in unethical conduct. We conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
for the introduction of health products in developing countries where consumers may be uncertain about product quality, and price subsidies are common policy instruments. Through a field experiment selling an unfamiliar health product in...
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Anna Secino
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
and adversity.3 Warren Bennis, a renowned leadership expert, has concluded that it is the "crucibles," or tests and trials, in an individual's life that profoundly shape them as leaders.4 As many have observed, however, people...
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by Linda Hill
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
destroy health, wealth, and life itself. The issues span the ethical spectrum: falsified books and records, misleading communications, defective and dangerous products shipped without warnings or information, abusive behavior and unsafe...
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by Carla Tishler
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
brands goes to digital media. What happens when products with sensors generate such volumes of customer experience data that advertising may be a less significant factor?” Jeff Polzer, of the Organizational Behavior faculty, introduced...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
biographer Richard S. Tedlow puts it, Grove was "one of the master managers in the history of American business." A new biography, Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, will debut next week, written by Tedlow, the Class...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
distinct, and ineffective form of self-presentation. We first document the ubiquity of humblebragging across several domains, from everyday life to social media. We then show that both forms of humblebragging—complaint-based or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
prosocial behavior associated with licensing. The results of a laboratory experiment and a large field experiment converge to support our account. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
victims, you get a much more visceral experience and a sense of what is lost.” A neighborhood destroyed The massacre was ostensibly sparked by an incident on May 30, 1921, when Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, tripped while...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
technology underpinning Bitcoin is the important part of the story. This technology will transform many aspects of life in a positive way.” Prithwis Mukerjee suggested that this is already happening in a “scheme to simplify the payment of...
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- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
just don't know who has the kind of upbringing or life experience that would be relevant to identifying the issues you need to anticipate and plan for.” Wu adds: “It means both adding people and making sure...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
by offering input, asking questions, and responding to others based on their experience working together thus far. In the relaunch session, the team can discuss how business goals and strategy may have changed in light of the pandemic....
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by Tsedal Neeley
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
the Complete Solution ought to be the key." Most argued for a process involving intuition based on analysis and experience. Rowland Freeman commented, "A great deal depends on the magnitude of the decision . The lesser the impact, go with View Details
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by James Heskett
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
DuPont's vision is "to be the world's most dynamic science company, creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer and healthier life for people everywhere." This vision helps DuPont employees better understand what...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem,...
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Dina Gerdeman