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Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety
By: Alison Wood Brooks, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I. Norton and Maurice Schweitzer
From public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I. Norton, and Maurice Schweitzer. "Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 137 (November 2016): 71–85.
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates entrepreneurial opportunities. Senior... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Airbnb Hosts
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 10 Jun 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View... View Details
- 28 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Three Foundations of a Great Life, Great Leadership, and a Great Organization
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg take a systemic approach to healthcare reform. Today's system is dysfunctional, they argue, rewarding participants who redirect costs and... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
temperatures will likely increase 6 degrees C by 2100, "which would have devastating consequences for the planet." This means more super droughts, floods, storms, fires, crop failures, sea-level rise, and other major... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 1998
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Competing by Design: The Power of Organizational Architectures
By: D. Nadler and Michael Tushman
Keywords: Organizational Design
Nadler, D., and Michael Tushman. Competing by Design: The Power of Organizational Architectures. NY: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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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
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.
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of 1969’s successful Apollo 11 voyage, Michael Collins (AMP 69, 1974) has been sharing his memories of the famous, three-man moon mission. Collins played a critical support role while Buzz Aldrin and... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
impossible feat, claimed by a growing number of companies, is achieved by calculating the greenhouse-gas emissions of the organization's operations, investing in energy efficiency and other methods to reduce... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
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750 Gun Deaths a Year Are Prevented by Waiting Periods, Study Finds
- October 2009
- Article
Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web
By: Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton
This research explores how partitioning attributes in online search interfaces changes the valuations of those attributes-and impacts subsequent choice-such that attributes that are displayed as separate categories tend to receive greater decision weight than... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Management; Demand and Consumers; Research; Internet and the Web; Valuation
Martin, Jolie M., and Michael I. Norton. "Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web." Psychology & Marketing 26, no. 10 (October 2009): 908–926.
- July 2023
- Supplement
Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea? – PowerPoint Supplement
By: Willy C. Shih and Michael W. Toffel
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
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Activist chiefs fill the vacuum left by government
- 27 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings
- 09 Sep 2016
- News