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- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
Experiments 1A and 1B found that advice influenced participants more when they thought it came from an algorithm than when they thought it came from other people. This effect was robust to presenting the advisor jointly or separately (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 tested... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
business leaders more confident and willing to talk to Harvard. They talked surprisingly openly to us, about their businesses and about politics. A number of the Chileans, for example, talked of their admiration for General Augusto... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
unconsciously was compared to participants thinking consciously, and to immediate decision makers. Across a total of 92 studies, the overall aggregated effect size was g = .224, with a 95% confidence interval from .145 to .303. This... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
adding value by operating across borders is concerned; others can be identified as well. Q: Globalists and global skeptics have had plenty to argue about in recent years: as you write in the same paper, globalists gained confidence from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
Each of these executives restored their people's confidence in themselves and in one another—a necessary antecedent to restoring investor or public confidence. They inspired and empowered their organizations to take new actions that could... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
another million dollars into the [culture] and DLU it created a high degree of comfort and confidence that we're focused on what really matters," observed the VP of Sales."3 The company's revenue, profits and stock price... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Business School Note 808-004 Firms that aspire to develop two-sided platforms face a formidable challenge. Prospective users on each side will not invest in the platform until they are confident there will be enough users on the other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
confident that shareholders will approve changes made to the company’s executive incentive plan (EIP) and steps taken to accelerate the turnover of long-serving directors, but he wonders how much longer the company will be able to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
bad person through interviews and so on. And I think I started out at FreeMarkets with too much confidence in that area. So as a result, my team and I have made some mistakes in hiring. We have been humbled and realize that, boy, it's not... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
confidence in their dressed-down rejection of the traditional pricey business suit and tie. It happens in academia, too. Anat Keinan, assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, and Silvia Bellezza, a doctoral candidate... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
well-documented tendencies to be overconfident and to act on overly optimistic assessments (Thompson 2001). Interestingly, many people know that they have these tendencies, but fail to notice them in the context of a specific decision. For example, when people are... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
universities, local governments, and civic groups and developed an array of outreach programs to help people understand and express themselves through music. Ma was confident that there could be no better time to hand over leadership. But... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
intrinsic or extrinsic incentives, and, for a wide range of settings, when the principal is more confident about the right course of action. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-085.pdf Publications Quanto Sei (a)Morale?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Chief Investment Officer, was confident that this was a successful way to invest if implemented effectively, but he also saw the top university endowments experience 25% to 35% declines in portfolio value during the second half of 2008... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
In Hiring, Should We Give Self-Confidence a Greater Weight Than Humility? Summing Up A respondent to this month’s column, Joel, provided the question for this summary. As he asked, "should we be focusing on hiring people who exude more View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
be able to tell what may come, but it takes a whole lot of confidence and conviction to be able to act upon the vision and take preventive action." That confidence and conviction presumably has to be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
from the perspective of smart people looking in. When it comes to understanding the state of American competitiveness, I often find that the sharpest insights come from the individuals I meet when I travel abroad. On a recent trip to China, what struck me most was the... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
the short and medium terms to feel confident again in China’s stability? A: Investors are prone to panic, as we’ve seen; they tend to rush for the exits. In reality, China is generally in a position to manage the turbulence in its... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
would expect that the temptation would be to continue to play your strong suit and try and express your own taste and your ideas because it’s worked for you for 50 years. The second issue you’d expect of anybody in this situation would be that they’re probably quite... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese