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  • 16 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

Competition can bring out the best in salespeople, athletes, and participants in hot dog eating contests—but can it make employees more creative? A recent working paper by Daniel P. Gross finds that competition can motivate creative types... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
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Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent

By: Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
We examine how a simple handshake—a gesture that often occurs at the outset of social interactions—can influence deal-making. Because handshakes are social rituals, they are imbued with meaning beyond their physical features. We propose that during mixed-motive... View Details
Keywords: Handshake; Cooperation; Affiliation; Competition; Negotiation; Nonverbal Communication; Negotiation Participants; Behavior; Communication Intention and Meaning; Negotiation Deal
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Schroeder, Juliana, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton. "Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 116, no. 5 (May 2019): 743–768.
  • 23 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

remote work. “There’s a huge value to real interactions even if they are occurring virtually,” says Goldenberg, who is a psychologist by training and an assistant professor at HBS. To test online experiences, the group took advantage of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

necessarily means experiencing failures along the way, Edmondson says. Taking this approach may be especially important now, as employers struggle to retain talent and boost employee morale in workplaces that were completely reshaped by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

unit. “The working atmosphere was more cohesive among co-ethnic teams” Pons wanted to see if the same kind of door-to-door outreach could work in Kenya, which had been wracked by ethnic violence in the 2007 election. Specifically, he... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

field studies, researchers tend to think that workers submit resumes to open positions. In fact, scholars have learned a lot about discrimination in labor markets by sending resumes to job postings to see who gets called back and who... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment
  • 31 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

says Amabile. “We wanted to investigate idle time, in part, to raise everyone’s awareness of how widespread and pernicious it can be.” “With idle time, the organization is often hurt by it, and it’s not enjoyable for employees either”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

with Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf of MIT Sloan School of Management. The researchers focus on one of the most important technological shifts in recent years—the introduction of Amazon... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology
  • 26 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

the key to creating breakthrough innovations. Still others have claimed that a company may be able to shift back and forth between different organizational models, focusing on exploitation for a period and then moving into exploration mode. We recently decided to test... View Details
Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  • 04 Dec 2019
  • Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

biggest problems in innovation is that it can generate uncertainty, says Thomke. Even in an age of Big Data, companies are stymied by the fact that they don’t know what they don’t know. “If something is very novel, there is little data... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

executives by examining how they are penalized in starting pay when looking for new work. The study, co-written with Eric Lin of the United States Military Academy at West Point, reveals these executives pay a steep price for guilt View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 17 Apr 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision

Keywords: by Michael J. Lenox & Michael W. Toffel; Technology
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • Book

Resolve Your Toughest Work Problems with 5 Questions

Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

School Professor Frances Frei has explored that question for years in the retail realm, culminating in her 2012 book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business. This past semester at HBS, the UPS... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, Kerr tapped into a database of lobbying activities kept View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

in the business-to-business space.” Indeed, the kinds of innovation possible in the B2B world seem limitless. By placing sensors on machinery and connecting them to the internet, companies can capture real-time data on their assets and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

counterpart at Honeywell, Michael Bonsignore, were rushing to close the deal (United Technologies was also eager to acquire Honeywell), they "reportedly never held initial consultations with their Brussels lawyers who specialize in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 14 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

article, which he co-wrote with physicians Lisa Rotenstein, assistant medical director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; and Christine Cassel, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. For many physicians who are burned out View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 18 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

there." At the same time, she has observed, by hogging the discussion, these leaders not only limited their own learning but also made the class less productive as a whole. Gino wondered if the same dynamic could be occurring in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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