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  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

including Rivkin, who had spent their academic careers studying organizational design and organizational identity. A comprehensive study of the FBI’s transformation resulted in the paper "Does 'What We Do'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    Tarun Khanna

    Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

    • May 2018
    • Article

    Advice Giving: A Subtle Pathway to Power

    By: M. Schaerer, L.P. Tost, L. Huang, F. Gino and R. P. Larrick
    We propose that interpersonal behaviors can activate feelings of power, and we examine this idea in the context of advice giving. Specifically, we show a) that advice giving is an interpersonal behavior that enhances individuals’ sense of power and b) that those who... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Behavior; Power and Influence
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    • March 2021
    • Article

    The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror

    By: Trung Nguyen
    This paper analyzes the impact of changes in regulatory priorities and resource allocation on criminal enforcement of white‐collar criminal activities. Using the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a shock to the FBI's priorities and allocation of investigative resources, as... View Details
    Keywords: White-collar Crime; Government Regulation; Financial Fraud; Securities Fraud; Insider Trading; Crime and Corruption; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement
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    • 27 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

    fielded inquiries from companies all over the world eager to improve their management practices. “It’s validating when you get calls and emails from people in many different countries who want to survey their firms,” she says. Sadun hopes... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding

      Himabindu Lakkaraju

      Himabindu "Hima" Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, Center for Research on... View Details

      • 12 Sep 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

      colleagues studied how experts judged contest entries and found that the greater an evaluator’s expertise, the more likely they were to nix less feasible proposals in favor of safer bets. “Who we select to do our evaluations and to pick... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

        Thomas R. Piper

        THOMAS R. PIPER, Baker Foundation Professor and Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is a faculty member in the Finance and Accounting Units at the Graduate School of Business Administration.  He has taught in the MBA Program, as well... View Details

        • 01 Jan 2002
        • News

        • 15 Mar 2007
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Initiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors’ Social Position

        Keywords: by Julie Battilana
        • Article

        Returnable Reciprocity: Returnable Gifts Are More Effective than Unreturnable Gifts at Promoting Virtuous Behaviors

        By: J.J. Zlatev and Rogers, T.
        Increasing virtuous behaviors, such as initiating healthy habits, is an important goal for policymakers and social scientists. To promote compliance with requests to perform virtuous behaviors, we study “returnable reciprocity.” Whereas traditional reciprocity involves... View Details
        Keywords: Nudges; Reciprocity; Want-should Conflicts; Wellness; Health; Behavior; Change; Well-being
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        • 22 Sep 2016
        • HBS Seminar

        Hunt Allcott, Stanford University

        • 06 Sep 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

        into a giant field experiment against their will. "It doesn’t mean you have to be in the office every week. The guiding principle is that the team decides what the co-location schedule will be." The results of the BRAC experiment follow... View Details
        Keywords: by Ben Rand
        • 16 Jan 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

        Mississippi planter priced his 48-year-old foreman, Hercules, at $500; recorded the worth of Middleton, a 26-year-old top-producing field hand, at $1,500; and gave 9-month-old George Washington a value of $150. At the end of the year, he... View Details
        Keywords: by Katie Johnston
        • December 2023
        • Article

        Save More Today or Tomorrow: The Role of Urgency in Precommitment Design

        By: Joseph Reiff, Hengchen Dai, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman and Shlomo Benartzi
        To encourage farsighted behaviors, past research suggests that marketers may be wise to invite consumers to pre-commit to adopt them “later.” However, the authors propose that people will draw different inferences from different types of pre-commitment offers, and that... View Details
        Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions
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          The Effects of Quota Frequency: Sales Performance and Product Focus

          This study investigates the comprehensive and multidimensional effects of quota (goal) frequency on sales force performance. The study provides a theory of salespeople’s behavior—aggregate effort and the product type focus—in response to the temporal length of a... View Details
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          The Corporate Brand Identity and Reputation Matrix—The Case of the Nobel Prize

          By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser
          The purpose of this article is to explore corporate brand identity and reputation, with the aim of integrating them into a single managerial framework. The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth field-based case study and is analysed using the Corporate Brand Identity and... View Details
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          • December 2017
          • Article

          Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee-Customer Interactions

          By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Nancy Rothbard and Steffanie Wilk
          Across multiple studies, we examine how identity conflict and enhancement within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking,... View Details
          Keywords: Identity; Interpersonal Communication; Sales; Performance
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            Rajiv Lal

            Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

            • Research Summary

            Microfinance

            "Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines." (with Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin) Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 2, 2006.
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