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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
things don’t have to happen right this instant. This is the new norming that needs to happen.” 7. Accept that productivity will probably suffer Choudhury’s research shows productivity often increases with remote work. But now, with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
it was an advertising bro fest, but also a reflection of the cultural norms of the time. After all, the 1960s was the dawn of the golden age of advertising when agencies were evolving from product pitchers to storytellers. That first... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
on intangible capabilities, such as the ability to assess the value of the knowledge and skills that are already present within the firm and in some instances within its broader ecosystem; to rapidly understand how to redeploy them in new activities; and to establish... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
and the normative orientation of medical professionals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54600 Summer 2018 California Management Review CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics By: Lyon,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
susceptible to the influence of social norms: They are more likely to reward those practices that are aligned with the social norm and to penalize those that are not. In this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
Anik and Dan Ariely of Duke University, social norms were used to incentivize employees to give money to charity. Results were published in the paper Contingent Match Incentives Increase Donations. In the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
a nonconforming person to have a heightened status and more competence, particularly when they believed the person was aware of the established norm but deliberately chose to make a fashion statement by wearing a standout style. This... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
paramedics, how do gray zones operate and why are they significant? A: Occupations, de facto, provide the shared, collective level of understanding that allows moral gray zones to exist. Nurses, paramedics, or flight attendants, for instance, share common training,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
questions in a new working paper, Because We're Partners: How Social Values and Relationship Norms Influence Consumer Payments in Pay-What-You-Want Contexts, written with Vicki G. Morwitz, the Harvey Golub... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
builds employee loyalty and bolsters company reputation, but requires effective tools to carry out. Beshears’s research sheds important light on the presumed efficacy of social norms marketing in the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
mailing address, their capital needs are minimal. People are intimately aware of the fact that too much structure will disenfranchise the very people who make the most successful open source projects possible. —Siobhán O'Mahony Second is the tension between embracing... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
What if the way we work could be a catalyst for solving huge problems like inequality and climate change? In the new book Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy, Harvard Business School Professor Julie Battilana and a dozen other View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
market-type dispersion by decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
parents, they wanted to be proud of me and wanted to feel confident they had launched me on the road to a better life. Although most of us grow up as products of our families, we are also heavily influenced by the social View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
and socialize new members into the norms of openness. With so much of the world outside the rule of liberal Europe and the OECD club of rich countries, such ad hoc globalization effectively undermines the... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits-but not social welfare nonprofits-when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization. We conclude that despite globalizing trends, the local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
competence, particularly when they believed the person was aware of the established norm but deliberately chose to make a fashion statement by wearing a standout style. This person was often viewed as autonomous; confident enough to act... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
legitimacy, status, and reputation. Key concepts include: Small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In some cases the location of a new venture is a critical facilitator... View Details