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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The War Within

things she could do was to simply ask them: “How do you feel?” As the Russian war stretches into its third year, that question is increasingly central to the success of Ukraine’s defense strategy. Protecting the mental health of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers has... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits. We also demonstrate that this effect is due to changes in the psychology of decision making, rather than voters' willingness to compromise and support a bill they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2023
  • Article

Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation

By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker
Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Environmental Regulation; Climate Change; Policy; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

Strategic responses to collective activism in the U.S. biomass sector

By: Shon R. Hiatt
Almost all companies face constraints and pressure from collective activists. Using tactics such as protests, boycotts, and lobbying, social movement organizations and collective actors can draw significant media attention to issues facing industries and organizations,... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business and Community Relations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Identity; Forest Products Industry; United States
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  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/Land%20Reform.pdf August 2013 Psychological Science Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity By: Gino, F., and S. Wiltermuth Abstract—We propose that dishonest and creative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

Keywords: by Deborah Kolb & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

world's foremost scholars in fields ranging from psychology to economics, sociology, and history. “Leadership is based on complex phenomena." -Rakesh Khurana As Khurana explains below, leadership—what it means, why it matters—is an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

Should Businesses Take a Stand on Societal Issues?

Keywords: Re: Hubert Joly
  • 05 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

become so psychologically dependent on their captors that they will trust their captors' statements and demands more than those of the officials who are attempting to negotiate their release. We tend to cope with the View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

of race in the workplace. "umm, He Has Pants" In efforts to be politically correct, people often avoid mentioning race when describing a person, even if that person's race is the most obvious descriptor. (Comedian Stephen Colbert often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces, with Jesse Shore, an assistant professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, and David Lazer, a political science professor at Northeastern University. The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
  • November 2010 (Revised February 2013)
  • Supplement

Energy Security in Europe (B): The Southern Corridor

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Sogomon Tarontsi
Nabucco natural gas pipeline, initiated by a group of European energy companies, was intended to connect the broad gas-rich region of the Middle East and Central Asia to Europe for the first time, which would diversify supply sources. At the same time, an... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Distribution; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Energy Industry; Russia; European Union
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  • 25 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

nourished and lived in conditions of poor hygiene and constant labor. Hair loss was psychologically debilitating for early 20th-century women, as it is today for female cancer patients enduring the ordeals of chemotherapy, for instance,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

organizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55936 forthcoming Psychological Science Using Behavioral Science to Inform the Design of Sugary Drink Portion Limit Policies By: John, Leslie, Grant E.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2019
  • Article

Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence

By: Nir Halevy, Eliran Halali and Julian Zlatev
Brokerage and brokering are pervasive and consequential organizational phenomena. Prevailing models underscore social structure and focus on the consequences that come from brokerage—occupying a bridging position between disconnected others in a network. By contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Brokerage; Brokering; Social Interactions; Organizations; Relationships; Power and Influence; Framework
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  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

a GED, but no college and no job, we would make a big impact on this. We have to have the psychological armor to defend ourselves against the racism that's all around us. Neeley: George Floyd's death has reawakened corporate America to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

all. Everyone would act as a free agent in a winner-take-all contest. Opportunism and selfish political behavior would be rampant. A great deal of frantic effort would be expended—but little of it would be the kind of coordinated effort... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then examine how the mind selectively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2004
  • Article

Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

By: Rafael Di Tella, Alberto Alesina and Robert MacCulloch
We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well-being using a total of 123,668 answers to a survey question about “happiness”. We find that individuals have a lower tendency to report themselves happy when inequality is high, even after... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Happiness; Global Range; Local Range; United States; Europe
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  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

Before last week’s election, polls and pundits suggested that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was doomed to failure, because it could not attract enough votes from women, who saw him as a misogynist—and worse. Conventional wisdom crashed and burned, however, as 42... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely