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  • June 2013
  • Article

Unconscious Thought Reduces Intrusion Development: A Replication and Extension

By: Julie Krans, Dorte Janecko and Maarten W. Bos

Background and Objectives: Intrusive images after a traumatic event, a hallmark feature of post-traumatic stress disorder, are suggested to develop because the trauma memory is disorganized and not integrated into autobiographical memory. Unconscious Thought... View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

and that they needed to commit themselves to the dual goal of producing benefits for society and their firms' bottom lines-to creating "shared value." But the specific actions they could take to bring about this change were less clear. This ebook offers some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

work gets done—as having anything do to with race or gender. They may notice that it's mostly men who run things, and when a woman is in charge, they may notice this as an anomaly. But few people think about the fact that Western models... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

rubs off on everyone around you and attracts enthusiastic people into your orbit.” But when does passion work, and when does it not? Jachimowicz and his team designed a series of six studies to better understand passion in the workplace.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1982
  • Article

When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words

By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat
Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Perception; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments
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  • 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

prospect of marketing ExperienceFLX's business to a new customer base through Groupon was very appealing, the Falks found that designing a deal that met Groupon's requirements while still allowing ExperienceFLX to make money and without... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

frequently that psychologists have a name for them: "fundamental attribution errors." Unable to know every aspect of a stranger's backstory, yet still needing to make a primal designation between friend and foe, we watch for... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

this way of thinking can be a problem. This is one truth about innovation that artists seem to understand a lot better than managers. Q: What can managers learn from your findings and apply to their businesses? A: Probably the most... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. The findings reveal that the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

in very senior positions or are the designated successor and close to assuming this leadership role. A board should not include the company's service providers such as banker, lawyer, or accountant. One should also resist enrolling on the... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

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

company released its pink and purple “Pens for Her,” featuring a “thin barrel designed to fit a woman’s hand.” Shoppers blasted Target when a store labeled toys in one aisle “building sets” and those in another aisle “girls’ building... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • June 2008
  • Article

The Multiunit Enterprise

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque
A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives
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  • 25 Oct 2010
  • HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

preselected assortment. Q: The company did a serious amount of homework before entering the United States, including sending 50 British executives to live with California families. But it seems the advance team didn't learn all that it should, such as the notion that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49266 Forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes The Highest Form of Intelligence: Sarcasm Increases Creativity Through Abstract Thinking for Both Expressers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

of survey and experimental research to focus on a key measure psychologists have dubbed "cultural metacognition." The term refers to a person's reflective thinking about his or her cultural assumptions. It seems to have a strong effect on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

service’s heavy users, who were looking for a way to organize all their tweets into subjects. Nintendo consulted non-gamers to design its Wii console, to make it easy for everyone to use. When Honda asked owners of its Ridgeline pickup... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS professor Ben Edelman, an expert on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 28 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

less well-known dynamic of customer differentiation and its effect on the way businesses are structured and run is examined in a recent Harvard Business School working paper, "Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 02 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

Presented with a goal to build a car "under 2,000 pounds and under $2,000" by 1970, employees overlooked safety testing and designed a car where the gas tank was vulnerable to explosion from rear-end collisions. Fifty-three people died as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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