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- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
unraveling of social relations, in turn, creates pressures for the state to step in as an economic intermediary. We need to pay more attention to domestic consumer market regulation as a source of national...
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- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
Customers demand more value and innovation than ever before, but they’re not always willing to pay more for that product or service. In fact, thanks to social media, dissatisfied customers can amplify their opinions about a company’s long...
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- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
increased pressure and seduction. Leaders can avoid these pitfalls by devoting themselves to personal development that cultivates their inner compass, or True North. This requires reframing their leadership from being heroes to...
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by Bill George
- 2010
- Working Paper
Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An Insidious Obstacle to Coordination and Performance
By: Heidi K. Gardner
Hierarchies are pervasive in groups, generally providing clear guidelines for the dominance and deference behaviors that members are expected to show based on their relative ranks. But what happens when team members disagree about where each member ranks on the... View Details
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Performance Effectiveness;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Conflict and Resolution;
Perception;
Status and Position;
Cooperation
Gardner, Heidi K. "Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An Insidious Obstacle to Coordination and Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-113, June 2010.
- 10 Feb 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Investing in Improvement: Strategy and Resource Allocation in Public School Districts
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social...
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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
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 pillars that seem to play a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
Sometimes, trying to prove yourself in one task takes away time from doing other important tasks. “Women experience the fear that people are going to think they’re not good at, competent in, or capable in their roles.” Especially women who believe that their authority...
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- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
decisions. The Everest analysis suggests that leaders must pay close attention to how they balance competing pressures in their organizations, and how their words and actions shape the perceptions and beliefs of organization members. In...
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by Michael A. Roberto
- March 2013
- Article
The Client Is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations?
By: Michael Firth, Chen Lin, Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates whether the business relations between mutual funds and brokerage firms influence sell-side analyst recommendations. Using a unique data set that discloses brokerage firms' commission income derived from each mutual fund client as well as the...
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Firth, Michael, Chen Lin, Ping Liu, and Yuhai Xuan. "The Client Is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations?" Journal of Accounting Research 51, no. 1 (March 2013): 165–200.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making
By: Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien
In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart. Recognition refers to a class of cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced...
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Interpersonal Communication;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Mathematical Methods;
Cognition and Thinking;
Power and Influence
Gavetti, Giovanni, and Massimo Warglien. "Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-028, October 2007.
- 2017
- Article
High-Stakes Innovation: When Collaboration Undermines (and Sometimes Enhances) Innovation
By: Johnathan Cromwell and Heidi K. Gardner
Organizations must constantly innovate, or else they may suffer consequences that range in severity. In low-stakes situations, they may lose a small opportunity for growth; and in high-stakes situations, they may lose significant market share that threatens their...
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Innovation;
Collaboration;
Teams;
Creativity Teams;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Groups and Teams;
Creativity
Cromwell, Johnathan, and Heidi K. Gardner. "High-Stakes Innovation: When Collaboration Undermines (and Sometimes Enhances) Innovation." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2017).
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2013.837889?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Price of Wall Street's Power By: Mukunda, Gautam Abstract—Over and over again, executives make decisions that aren't in their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leaderand How to Be One
work—there's lots of pressure to get lots of things done and the sooner the better. Also, a lot of what needs to be done is hard to do. You need confidence—which can run at odds with modesty. And you need to get yourself and others to get...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
we measure better versus worse? Even more simply, How do we keep score? "At the economy wide or social level," he continues, "the issue is the following: If we could dictate the criterion or objective function to be...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Lerner, Dina D. Pomeranz, Gustavo A. Herrero, and Cintra ScottHarvard Business School Case 812-158 Start-Up Chile is a unique program to encourage entrepreneurs to bring their new ventures to Chile. Policymakers must evaluate its effectiveness in achieving economic and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
extra-industry professional networks will, through normative conformity, be more likely to adopt turnkey practices; second, that the normative pressure of professional networks will interact with the mimeticism of industry peers such that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
exert undue pressure at the time of the decision and increase the odds that self-interest will dominate can help you use self-control strategies to curb that influence. One such strategy involves putting in place precommitment devices...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
costless redistribution of arbitrarily determined unequal outcomes and prefer justifying tax progressivity based on benefit received rather than on diminishing marginal social welfare of income. These attitudes are shown to be linked to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View
Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible...
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