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- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
underpayment, where underpaid workers retaliate against their employers in proportion to their underpayment, but overpaid workers rationalize the overpayment away." The research results dovetails with what CEOs of some big retail... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded... View Details
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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty
My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
to foreign competition and ideas which in turn will improve your capabilities and push you to make better use of the capabilities you already have. The observation that exports contribute to competitiveness even though they are not a fundamental driver provides a View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
with whom we interact judge us differently than we judge ourselves? Phil Clark commented that "Ethics is in the 'eye of the beholder,' not the person carrying out the action." We may rationalize our behaviors depending on, as R.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
drawing upon literature and ideas and other disciplines. We're looking at identity politics, political science, and social policy. We are trying to learn from other interdisciplinary approaches and asking, "How do we rationally and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
prices. Promote periodic price mark-up events. And, eventually, start a conversation about truly rationalized pricing, tied to the actual cost of input for the producers, including the labor of impoverished women in developing countries.... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
reasoned, rational approach to this opportunity that its business community is best equipped to provide. Why aren’t business leaders more vocal about immigration policy? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
ability to determine what is important, and history itself—mainly because complex phenomena are based on events that never repeat themselves and can't be examined scientifically. Once we know the outcome of a situation, we rationalize the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
it, " the question should not be rational decision making OR intuition, but rather how to combine both." David Kendall said, "In the most difficult case of no-time and high-risk, reliance on 'rational intuition' may be a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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John H. McArthur | About
complex stakeholders. By the time he became dean, McArthur had a reputation as a skilled negotiator with a talent for resolving thorny conflict, and a tough-minded but rational decision maker who worked with others in considerate and... View Details
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
he wasn't living up to them. There was extraordinary tension between his devotion to rationality ("I have given my life to reason," he once wrote in his diary), and the overwhelming power of his emotions. He was an intellectual... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
rationalizations for the failures. Specifically, managers attributed large failures to uncontrollable events outside the organization (e.g., the economy) and to the intervention of outsiders. Small failures were interpreted as flukes, the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Low 40 1940 s 19 Military spending explodes Graduated income tax, Victory Tax adopted to fund war effort Rationing Influence: Medium-Low 50 1950 s 19 Military spending shifts to nuclear deterrents Small Business Administration created... View Details
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
exactly the image we have when we think about sustainability. We think about much more rational and thoughtful consumption. So you could see why these two concepts would seem contradictory. And people would ask me: why are you making such... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
available. For example, retail chains and commercial airlines, which lease a lot of their assets such as stores and airplanes, might rationally prefer Chapter 11 to restructuring out of court. The second impediment to reaching a... View Details
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Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Faculty Research Online
“I Read Playboy for the Articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences When people behave in ways that might appear selfish, prejudiced, or perverted, they employ a host of strategies designed to justify questionable... View Details
- Portrait Project
James Corcoran
long-term? Am I too biased toward an ever-retreating horizon? Let's be honest: My one wild and precious life is subject to the whims of a capricious universe, my rationality bounded, and my information imperfect. But it's OK. Complete... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
article explores why we often think irrationally—and why, even when the stakes are high and mistakes are costly, we sometimes are unable to overcome our psychological biases. We begin with an overview of intuition and rationality in... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra