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  • January 2025
  • Supplement

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery (B)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Derek C. M. van Bever
Recounts a pivotal moment in Martin Luther King Jr.'s life during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, where a profound prayer amidst threats to his life renewed his faith and resolve to lead the movement. This transformative experience marked the beginning of his lifelong... View Details
Keywords: Spirituality; Civil Rights; Manging Uncertainty; Leadership; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Alabama
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Public Displays of Alignment: Firm Speech in Autocratic Regimes

By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu
Political speech by firms is increasingly common around the world. This paper examines the government as an important, yet understudied, audience for such speech, focusing on how Chinese firms rhetorically align with the state. We introduce novel, general, and... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Economic Systems; Power and Influence; Government Administration; Policy; China
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  • July 2009
  • Journal Article

Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency

By: Neeru Paharia, Karim Kassam, Joshua Greene and Max Bazerman
When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency.... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency

By: Neeru Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene and Max H. Bazerman
When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency.... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
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  • 27 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

than 12,000 daily diaries, looking for commonalities that influenced the workers’ “inner work lives,” defined by the researchers as “the confluence of perceptions, emotions, and motivations that individuals experience as they react to and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

to read the book and to comment that "becoming an outstanding leader is not very different from becoming a chef. Both roles require passion, discipline, authenticity, and an experimental attitude." Bennis apparently had an View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 15 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

their advertising budgets in a very ad hoc manner—throwing money into whatever bucket they perceive to have most influenced past purchase decisions. Some have gone a step further by running experiments with participants to determine which... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

partners from other cultures. Even more important, however, was the influence of cognitive from-the-head trust. Far from being a cool, rational appraisal of a partner's ability, it was highly influenced by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Predictable Surprises

in the attacks, but that information was in separate silos. Richard Clarke, whose job it was to integrate across those silos, was a leftover from the Clinton administration, with limited influence in the new Washington power structure.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

reinforce human relations. Q: What influence do organizational structure, management hierarchy, and physical space have on an organization's internal communication network? A: Huge influences! Although every leader at some point in their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

which an organization can influence behavior. Second, their motivation to change — personal safety — was unusually compelling. But we did identify three conditions that could in theory exist in any organization. Having a connective... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 17 May 2016
  • First Look

May 17, 2016

extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the influence of this work represents a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

  Working PapersTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
In February 2018, Nayana Mawilmada (Nayana), investment head for the Sri Lankan government’s ambitious $40 billion Megapolis project, must weigh an attractive job offer to move from the public sector to the private sector. A massive government project aimed at... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; Public Sector; Experience and Expertise; Strategic Planning; Work-Life Balance; Transportation; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence; Personal Development and Career; Real Estate Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States
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  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

per consumer visit and 2) influencing stores' choices of strategic variables (e.g., pricing). We characterize the conditions under which there would be no role for search diversion as a strategic instrument for the intermediary, thereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Jann S. Wenner

    Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, Wenner set out to create a new rock magazine. Launched in 1967, Rolling Stone magazine became an instant success. Wenner, known for his ability to spot new trends, has gone on to repeat this... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
    • 11 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 11

    forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: December 20

    the redirection of existing inventive activity. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-118.pdf Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural Value Orientation Influences Performance... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 18 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 18, 2008

    this time. Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations Authors:Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • April 2001
    • Teaching Note

    Katharine Graham TN

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Lisa M. Gunther and Dina R. Pradel
    Teaching Note for (9-801-276). View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Public Ownership; Power and Influence; Experience and Expertise; Value; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Risk and Uncertainty
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