Individual Connections - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

imprint, such as a strong corporate culture, should help individuals better evaluate future employers and recognize the ways in which that first career experience may shape not simply the skills they acquire, but also their assumptions... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University project to point the way toward development of "ubiquitous, high... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

however, a catch: they tended to move from firms with lower rates of misconduct to firms with higher rates. “It seems like there is some sorting going on, with some firms more tolerant of misconduct than others.” In other words, while View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

relationships. Connection in meaningful relationships is essential to professional learning and development, she believes. Most scholars have tended to focus on careers as they affect individuals. These researchers, for instance, look at... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

effects on citation rates. Our findings suggest that subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that illuminate the connections between their findings... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

increasing connectedness and the impact of our actions in one place on the situation in another. "We cannot deal without understanding the connections we're making," said Stevenson. "You may want to look at these four... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Specifically, Martin Edic points out that "Much of global air business travel, for example, is unnecessary ... (with) broadband connections combined with free VoIP software." Necessary behaviors can be fostered by incentives as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

Amy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies tested whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with core cultural values... View Details

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

imposes restrictions on individual choice behavior that limit the types of substitution patterns that can be found through empirical analysis, and we raise fundamental questions about when the model can be used to recover individuals'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

financial goals while simultaneously evolving channels to be in tune with the changing market environment. That's why the role is best performed by that individual or team of individuals who have the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

remote, you were in a non-stop thread in Slack with very few separate channels. It was intimate and cool intoxicating. Even as the team grew from five to 25, there was this sense of deep connection that the early employees had with the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

30 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

term for these relationships: guanxi. Guanxi literally means connections or relations, but also refers to the socio-emotional bond that ties people who do business together. Guanxi networks tend to have significant overlap between... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2019
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

Allegations and Government Contracting, forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting Research, was co-written by Heese and HBS Assistant Professor Gerardo Perez Cavazos. Empowering whistleblowers The False Claims Act enables individual... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

fatigue people feel from the technological environment, and always being connected through video chat. How can people minimize that? Neeley: Tech exhaustion is a symptom of us overusing video for meetings that are edge to edge and far too... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

pediatric heart hospital facilities in the world." Shetty also directs telemedicine units that connect to remote areas in northeastern India, allowing physicians and technicians to communicate on acute care. Telemedicine is one way... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

resources, but that some children fail to follow that norm in the actual game. The gap between norm and behavior was correlated with self-regulation skills on a parent-report individual differences measure. Specifically, we show that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

network where one single individual shares content, congestion (or download time) is huge as all members will connect to this one sharer to obtain content. If a second View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

learned today and prepare for tomorrow. The Rapid Eye Movement (REM) phase of sleep appears to be dedicated to the former function, shaping the day’s barrage of stimuli and events into memories and lessons, and connecting those memories... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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