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- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
competence, particularly when they believed the person was aware of the established norm but deliberately chose to make a fashion statement by wearing a standout style. This person was often viewed as autonomous; confident enough to act... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
financially constrained. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2338575 Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: False Expectations of Leniency in the Punishment of Transgressions By: Gino, Francesca,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Publications January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving By: Blake, P.R., M. Piovesan, N.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
authority of running the business. Chandler described this management culture as "managerial capitalism. "Owners' delegation of responsibility to professional managers established a corporate norm that was then carried down... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
unwritten rules and possible challenges to expect in the new role. For example, one unwritten norm critical for a successful entry into the organization is the need to build strong lateral relationships that cross several boundaries, such... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
focuses on potentially contested practice where few norms seem to prevail. Whole-body donations for medical education and research provide the setting for this project. The goal is to understand how individuals and organizations operate... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
story. But at the News of the World, the people who were asked to hack the phones were apparently hired by journalists, but were not journalists themselves. This gave them the freedom to obey norms different from those of their employers.... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
for international norms of negotiating sovereign debt restructurings and is therefore unlikely to be used in future debt restructurings. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
the queue? And how would social norms and a sense of fairness play out along the line? The results were quite surprising. As might be expected, the higher the amount of payment offered, the more likely individuals were to allow a stranger... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
consistent with our field interviews of R&D executives from laboratories involved in our study. The study provides further evidence of the geographically bounded nature of knowledge. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2423341 Bureaucratic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
and elaborate on their normative implications. Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan Authors:Douglas J. Skinner and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract We study events surrounding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
As companies ride the digital wave, many find that switching up old, tired practices and deviating from the norm can be crucial to survival. But sometimes things can be taken too far. During the Digital Initiative Summit at Harvard... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
humans. It is undermined by any company that tries to justify decisions based on market norms . Academics and training alone will not create leaders. Life creates leaders.” Bill C., in pointing to corporate governance as an issue, said... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
and social science research is specialist, peer-reviewed journals. Second, much research takes the form of case studies and is often qualitative rather than quantitative. In disciplines where standardized social science methodology, especially multiple regressions, has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
organization’s mission and culture, and great places to work have been shown statistically to produce higher returns than the norm for an industry. Lou Gerstner, in reflecting on his stint as CEO of IBM, said, “Until I came to IBM, I... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits-but not social welfare nonprofits-when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization. We conclude that despite globalizing trends, the local geographic community continues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
parents, they wanted to be proud of me and wanted to feel confident they had launched me on the road to a better life. Although most of us grow up as products of our families, we are also heavily influenced by the social norms manifested... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009
experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on 47... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace