Cognition and Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

2019
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When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

By: Stephen Turban, Dan Wu and Letian Zhang

Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can... View Details

Keywords: Gender; Diversity; Performance; Performance Productivity

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26 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

bonding with these influencers,” Vettese says. “They have regular conversations back and forth, and they think of the influencers as being directly ingrained in their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

of survey and experimental research to focus on a key measure psychologists have dubbed "cultural metacognition." The term refers to a person's reflective thinking about his or her cultural assumptions. It... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

me when my public radio station uses it. What else do we know about how to positively influence people’s charitable behaviors? Zlatev: The role of self-interest in prosocial behaviors is a really interesting one, and there are some... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

People make snap judgments all the time. That woman in the sharp business suit must be intelligent and successful; the driver who just cut me off is a rude jerk. These instant assessments, when we attribute a person's behavior to innate... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

“In India, you often encounter a really strong set of value-driven businesses. And it’s an interesting question why.” Reputation is an especially strong attribute of long-haul companies, adds Khanna. “I really View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

bigger than just creating the market. They need to epitomize the market. “If they become the cognitive referent, they gain an unequal share of the gains from doing so” “The goal is not only to make sure that the product category takes... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

poor Synthesis is what happens when, after absorbing a subject, there is a leap in thinking that one can't quite explain." Zuff Deo explained the semantic difficulties this way: "We do use various faculties View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

Behavior best-seller list—thanks in part to corporate managers who distribute it to their employees as a lesson in accepting and anticipating change gracefully. But is that really the best message to send? Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

boundaries of businesses have become much more diffuse because of digital technology driven business models. Now, if you think about Walmart and Amazon, both their business models have changed over time.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

before we fully embrace the new beginning. Think of it as that time between how you associate yourself with “we.” When you stop saying “at my last company, we ” but you have yet to associate yourself with the “we” of your new role View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

A New Approach to Building Your Personal Brand

For better or worse, in today's world everyone is a brand. Whether you're applying for a job, asking for a promotion, or writing a dating profile, your success will depend on getting others to recognize your value. So, you need to get comfortable marketing yourself. In... View Details

26 Sep 2023
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Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

offers new insight into the fluid dynamics in the growing and important space of diversity, equity, and inclusion, known as DEI. “It can make you feel like it's objectifying the people who are involved or... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

March 2008
Article

Radically Simple IT

Many managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are... View Details

Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

academic research that started to take hold in the 1980s and '90s. The work brought much-needed economic thinking to strategy's underpinnings. It armed legions of MBAs and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Profiles - MBA

reminder that the world we live in is far from perfect, but in every challenge is a chance to envision a new way of thinking and of doing, and I am excited to join a cohort... View Details

22 Jun 2022
Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

in recent years, Minson added. “Arguments have become more accusatory and more emotional,” she said. She blames social media. “It’s become so much easier to surround yourself with people who agree with you. Now you can go online View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

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Dean Srikant Datar | About

he holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Datar’s research and course development have been in the areas of cost management and management control,... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

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