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  • 18 Sep 2020
  • HBS Seminar

Megan Frederickson, University of Toronto, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

    New Perspectives on Regulation

    New regulation shouldn't rely on old ideas. Since the 1960s, influential research on government failure helped to drive the movement for deregulation and privatization. Yet even as this branch of research was flourishing, very different ideas were sprouting in the... View Details
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    Moral Muscle

    By: Sandra J. Sucher

    Can we get better at moral decision making? How is the capacity to exercise moral leadership developed? One answer to these questions is the notion of “moral muscle,” which is a combination of moral awareness (the ability to recognize situations that can be... View Details

    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making
    • September 2013
    • Article

    Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health

    By: Leslie K. John and Michael I. Norton
    Objective: This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment in a large corporation in which we introduced walkstations (treadmills... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health; Health Industry
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

    By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn
    We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates negotiate with the employers. At Level 2, candidates negotiate with domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Jobs and Positions; Game Theory; Gender
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    • 04 Mar 2014
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

    Should managers lead innovation or get out of the way? It's not an either/or decision. Executives of some great innovative companies—Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg—are active participants in creation, getting their hands dusty in the digital dirt,... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • Research Summary

    Teaching Interests

    Power and Influence, Work and Organizations, Social Movements and Organizations, Qualitative Research Methods, Organizational Theory, Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Social Enterprise

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    • 26 Jul 2021
    • News

    The Billionaire Space Race

    • 21 Jun 2019
    • News

    The Business of Yoga

    • 23 Feb 2015
    • News

    How to Break the Expert’s Curse

      Lynn S. Paine

      Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

      • April 27, 2022
      • Article

      Inequality in Researchers' Minds: Four Guiding Questions for Studying Subjective Perceptions of Economic Inequality

      By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Shai Davidai, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Barnabas Szaszi, Martin Day, Stephanie Tepper, L. Taylor Phillips, M. Usman Mirza, Nailya Ordabayeva and Oliver P. Hauser
      Subjective perceptions of inequality can substantially influence policy attitudes, public health metrics, and societal well-being, but the lack of consensus in the scientific community on how to best operationalize and measure these perceptions may impede progress on... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Perception; Analysis
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      Democratizing Work: Redistributing Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future

      By: Julie Battilana, Julie Yen, Isabelle Ferreras and Lakshmi Ramarajan
      Environmental destruction and social inequalities are increasingly urgent challenges. How can corporations, which have played a key role in creating and reproducing these problems, be part of the solution? In this paper, we advance that a shift to more democratic forms... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Citizenship; Corporate Social Responsibility; CSP; CSR; Domination; Industrial Relations; Power; Resistance; Work; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance; Power and Influence; Environmental Management; Social Issues
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      • 14 May 2019
      • HBS Seminar

      Patti Williams, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

      • 05 Nov 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

      It's an AI-age twist on the classic Turing Test, developed by British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 to judge whether machines could exhibit “intelligence.” Called the “Wade Test,” after the CEO of the company the researchers... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

        John W. Pratt

        John W. Pratt is a professor of business administration, emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He was educated at Princeton and Stanford, specializing in mathematics and statistics. Except for two years at the University of Chicago, and a sabbatical in Kyoto on a... View Details

        • 07 Mar 2018
        • Research & Ideas

        Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

          Despite the promise that electronic health records would cut billing costs, savings have yet to materialize, according to a major new study by researchers at Harvard Business School and Duke University. “The theory was that part of... View Details
        Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
        • 23 Jul 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

        realize as a typical citizen as you're going about your daily life.” A resource for COVID researchers Even though the tracker is no longer updated live, the detailed database could serve as a great resource for a growing number of... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • 2016
        • Chapter

        User-Generated Content and Social Media

        By: Michael Luca
        This paper documents what economists have learned about user-generated content (UGC) and social media. A growing body of evidence suggests that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from... View Details
        Keywords: User-generated Content; Crowdsourcing; Design Economics; Internet and the Web; Marketing; Economics; Media; Social Media
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        • 09 Oct 2019
        • Research & Ideas

        For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

        As many entrepreneurs and business leaders can testify, a great conversation or brainstorm can turn an inkling of an idea into a gamechanger. A research paper goes inside those conversations and the people having them to learn the... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding