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  • 17 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

The evidence has long shown that women are discriminated against in the workplace. Now it appears that they are even punished more harshly than men when they are in the wrong. A new research paper reveals that when women at Wells Fargo View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • May 2022
  • Article

When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the financial advisory industry. We find evidence of a “gender punishment gap”: following an incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs... View Details
Keywords: Financial Advisers; Brokers; Gender Discrimination; Consumer Finance; Financial Misconduct And Fraud; FINRA; Financial Institutions; Employees; Crime and Corruption; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry
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  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

When companies try to hire employees from specific ethnic or racial backgrounds to meet their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, an uncomfortable feeling often creeps into the process. Particularly among well-intentioned white... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

maximizing says nothing to employees or managers about how to find or establish initiatives or ventures that create value. It only tells us how we will measure success in the activity. Defining what it means to score a goal in football or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

on employee engagement data, Bastian could see that while talent retention was high at Delta, too many frontline employees felt stuck and unable to gain opportunities to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
  • 01 Sep 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/jubaphoto) How many times have we discussed the contributions of employee engagement and the loyalty it produces to an organization’s performance? Trust is, as it is for many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much

doing so in the future. Keenan and colleagues found support for these additional beliefs; however, perceptions of a brand’s generosity remained the primary driver of their study results. Valuable advice for generous firms The results may frustrate deep-pocketed,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

bloggers are buzzing with guidance about ways to sustain employee engagement and productivity in the chaos of a pandemic. Unfortunately, most Management 101 advice does not recognize that in times like... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • September 2019
  • Technical Note

Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)

By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Labor; Health Care and Treatment; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Management; United States
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  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input was considered crucial. Qualitative data collected in 190 interviews with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

EMC (and one essay by a man). "It bubbled up organically," Groysberg says. "And in that way the message they created was more compelling than a marketing campaign. It's helping the company to recruit women, which creates a great competitive advantage. And internally,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

terminating an employee for a seemingly innocuous act of expression. Danielle Brown, Google’s new vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer, hired just a few weeks before the memo was leaked to the public, must now advise... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher, and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide several suggestions for how scholars can enhance research relevance, including engaging practitioners in on-campus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

who want to push performance very strongly shouldn’t expect employees to engage in extra-role behavior as much,” Gallani says. “There is a little bit of a tradeoff between pay for performance and extra-role... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 03 Apr 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53681 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By: Buell, Ryan W., Ethan Porter, and Michael I. Norton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

clarify Starbucks’ desire to overcome racial bias and encourage acceptance and integration. Johnson will benefit from engaging all of his employees in discussions about serving customers well and using the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit superior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

learning from past failures. Balancing Competing Forces The Everest case suggests that leaders need to engage in a delicate balancing act with regard to nurturing confidence, dissent, and commitment within their organizations. First,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

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