Cognition and Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

writing, one thing is guaranteed: you will get to know interesting people and become more knowledgeable about a topic of your interest. I can’t think of a better way to have spent some time during my last... View Details

25 Oct 2010
HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

floors wouldn't necessarily appeal to American tastes. What can other companies that are thinking of moving into the United States learn about Tesco's early fact gathering and strategy development? A: I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

never know when they’ll enter your career path again as prospective bosses, peers, or subordinates. Here is a recommended roadmap for how to resign with grace and class—without burning bridges along the way: View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310073-PDF-ENG Cosan: Thinking Outside the Barrel Forest Reinhardt, Noel Maurer, and Ricardo Reisen de PinhoHarvard Business School Case 710-017 The Cosan case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

back to McClelland's original work, and eventually thinking more deeply about the "high-need-for-achievement professional" and how helpless these individuals behaved... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

20 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way

We've all experienced them, days when we are easily distracted from important work, can't think clearly, and make poor decisions. "I can't get out of my own way today," we say. One antidote might be to break... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

solid waste is managed in the Big Apple. “I think you have with her a very creative and innovative public servant,” says Steven A. Cohen, an authority on waste management in New York City who is the former... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

In the classic game of Chicken, two drivers on a crash course speed toward each other. The rules are simple: Whoever swerves first and avoids collision loses, and whoever is brave enough to stay the course... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

July–August 2016 Harvard Business Review Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams By: Bernstein, Ethan, John Bunch, Niko Canner, and Michael Lee Abstract—Holacracy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

Chick Beer tried to entice weight-conscious women with the brew’s 97 calories and 3.5 carbs per bottle, “about the same as half of a carrot.” And Clutch, a brand of dryer sheets, encourages men to “grab your... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

28 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Self-Serving Altruism? When Unethical Actions That Benefit Others Do Not Trigger Guilt

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Shahar Ayal & Dan Ariely

2019
Working Paper

Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?

By: Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Forester Wong

Several government-mandated committees investigating the financial crisis highlighted four key deficiencies in the composition of bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members; (ii) absence of prior banking experience of board members; (iii)... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Change; Diversity

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Joy Chen

diverse people in the way they think and what they aspire to. They’re the reason I’m here. They’re authentic and open to conversations that matter, to forming new emotional... View Details

02 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

in the sciences. It may have also increased the degree to which the United States and the Soviet Union spent limited funds on mutually unhelpful defense expenditures. So, I think the answer is in the eyes of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-041.pdf Publications From Wealth to Well-Being? Money Matters, but Less than People Think Authors: Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

dynamics of courtship. While the podcast focused primarily on heterogeneous relationships, marriage, and monogamy, I couldn’t help but think of the parallels with cofounder relationships. My brain is in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

What You Don't Know About Making Decisions

Most executives think of decision making as a singular event that occurs at a particular point in time. In reality, though, decision making is a process fraught with power plays, politics, personal nuances, and institutional history. Leaders who recognize this make... View Details

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

Weiss knew that the island, an unincorporated US territory whose residents are American citizens, was drowning in $70 billion of debt. Hampered by legal limitations on the remedies it could pursue, and desperate for ready cash to meet its... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

think about an alternative approach where there's more room for newcomers' self-expression, Gino says. "This is a pivotal stage of the employee/employer relationship, and there are ways to emphasize people's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

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