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- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
Participants who had read stories in the first person had a harder time remembering the cheating narrative than the non-cheating narrative. But those who read stories in the third person remembered their stories equally well, regardless... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
reports on job duties, companies can create narrative simulations that are more interactive, allowing employees to debrief with managers about what they did right and wrong. (Myers notes that Harvard Business School’s own faculty... View Details
- Web
Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction. Mattias E. Fibiger : Winner of the 2024 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
associate had pulled away emotionally and psychologically. The associate had spent hours constructing a narrative that highlighted to the associate that he was no longer central to the organization. The associate was ripe to bolt for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Blog
Celebrating 100 Years of the HBS Case Method
was a one-page narrative about a management challenge facing leaders at the General Shoe Company. The case proved to be a very successful teaching tool, and many more cases followed. Today, the case method is just as relevant as it was... View Details
- Profile
Mireya Iglesias Ayala
Coming to HBS is like... Delving into a captivating novel, where each chapter, from the invigorating classroom debates prompted by the cold call method to the enduring traditions like Flag Day, propels the narrative of our growth forward.... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
harm;” Predictable—"AV’s maneuvers can be anticipated from past behavior;” Reasonable—"does not offend notions of logic or justice;” Uniform—“treats seemingly like situations alike;” Comfortable—“physically and psychologically smooth;” and Explainable—“fits in an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
infrastructure, technology, and agribusiness. “There’s a lot of common sense, hard work, and relationship-building that needs to happen,” she notes. “But I refuse the ‘doomed’ narrative for Africa. It’s easier for me to tell someone to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Keen has long been comfortable, but it seems to have found its fullest expression through Sacred Seed and the group’s work of rewriting the long-accepted narrative of America as a pristine Eden settled by white pioneers. The role of... View Details
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
performance demands were exhausting. But she wanted to show the assets that Miami had. Hatcher also wanted to change the narrative, not just for Miami but for the inner city. For too long, Kanter observes, attention to left-behind groups has often been accompanied by... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
performance during a recovery” A search for leaders who have taken alternative approaches to managing their workforce during economic downturns led us to Honeywell CEO Dave Cote, and drives the narrative of our new case study, Honeywell... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business Change and Adaptation BIO The environment needs fixing — but by whom? At the onset of the COVID pandemic, a narrative emerged that, as we would pass through the experience of it “everything would change,” this without much... View Details
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
person harassing them, the most common reactions were avoiding the perpetrator (53%), avoiding thinking about the harassment (50%), and trying to create an internal narrative that the incident was not important (49%). A significant... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
who artfully morphed their founding stories to fit their current iteration, creating a narrative arc as the companies evolved, McDonald says. “The founding story that’s associated with a Facebook app becoming a regulated financial... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
hand" of the Chandlerian managers. Perhaps one of the main differences with Chandler's work was that the entrepreneurs and managers creating and running big corporations in Latin America also appeared in political narratives as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Excellence in Work-Family Research from the Boston College Center for Work and Family and Purdue University Center for Families for "Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
that others will hear what you have to say. People are more likely to listen if they first feel heard,” according to communications expert Sarah Gershman. Inclusion The principle of inclusion expands employees’ roles beyond listening and responding to co-creating the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
these narratives A common feature of all resilient businesses we interviewed is that they proactively sought information from a variety of sources, including suppliers, trade associations, and health care professionals. Managers readily... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
consequences of this move. The rise of a more authoritarian regime in China and a competition narrative began a rethinking of this model. This was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which shined a spotlight on the vulnerabilities of... View Details