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- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. The joy of meetings The results are good news for businesses implementing work-from-home policies, suggesting that workers can combat loneliness by engaging in virtual activities without having to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
may not help since it will depend on the style and type of leader ...." In Linda Joy Ortiz' words, "I do not think individuals would benefit from classes on followership ... following is basically an instinct and has more to do... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
comfort, optimism, and joy to our communities and inspire hope, especially for children.” This may help explain why many people went to work for Disney and why the company’s CEO took a stand that favored the views of some employees at the... View Details
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
feelings toward the man? Did your impressions of him change while writing the book? A: One of the joys of writing this book was dealing with Schumpeter's personal life. I knew it was going to be interesting, but not nearly so much as it... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
opportunities out there for brands that can sell online and provide people with products that can bring them joy at home.” Both companies were forced to leverage ecommerce in unexpected ways to survive the COVID-19 outbreak, but in the... View Details
- June 2014
- Article
Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes
By: Joy Ishii and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives... View Details
Keywords: Mergers; Acquisitions; Social Ties; Social Connections; Mergers and Acquisitions; Relationships; Outcome or Result
Ishii, Joy, and Yuhai Xuan. "Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes." Journal of Financial Economics 112, no. 3 (June 2014): 344–363.
- March 2010
- Article
Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States
By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick
We construct a comprehensive list of dual-class firms in the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick. "Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States." Review of Financial Studies 23, no. 3 (March 2010).
- 2004
- Working Paper
Incentives vs. Control: An Analysis of U.S. Dual-Class Companies
By: Paul A Gompers, Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick
- January–February 2024
- Article
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion
By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details
Bredehorst, Joy, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion." Organization Science 35, no. 1 (January–February 2024): 364–386.
- Article
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick
Gompers, Paul A., Joy L. Ishii, and Andrew Metrick. "Corporate Governance and Equity Prices." Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, no. 1 (February 2003). (Winner of Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research presented by Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.)
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
the viewers' emotional response with the help of eye-tracking technology combined with facial expression analysis software. Evoking surprise proved to be the most effective way of capturing attention, while evoking joy was the most... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
30-second consumer product advertisements. Out of 28 ads, 14 were chosen because they were decidedly provocative; the researchers expected them to evoke either joy or surprise in the viewers at different points in the brief plot. The... View Details
- September 1996
- Case
HBS Honor Code, The: A Delicate Experiment?
By: Henry B. Reiling, Susan Emery, Myer Joy and Joe Sigelman
Keywords: Ethics
Reiling, Henry B., Susan Emery, Myer Joy, and Joe Sigelman. "HBS Honor Code, The: A Delicate Experiment?" Harvard Business School Case 297-030, September 1996.
- May 17, 2023
- Article
Don't Let Passion Lead to Burnout on Your Team
By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion is often heralded as the key to a fulfilling and successful career, but the authors’ recent research suggests that it can also come at a cost: Feeling passionate about work can lead to exhaustion and even burnout. Through studies with more than 700 employees... View Details
Bredehorst, Joy, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "Don't Let Passion Lead to Burnout on Your Team." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 17, 2023).
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
entrepreneurial communities and four recent trends in entrepreneurial activity. The characteristics that make entrepreneurship thrive, said Stevenson, include: resource mobility; reinvestment in the community; joy in the success of... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
continuous moments of joy was the best way of retaining it. Thus, the most captivating ads in the experiment were those that began by surprising the viewer and then went on to make the viewer smile. But successfully capturing and keeping... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
expressed as a sense of calm or peace, whereas in some Western cultures, happiness means jumping around with joy and excitement." But fMRI is invaluable to neuroscience and neuromarketing in that it gives researchers a view into the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
making it a moving beacon for the American entrepreneurial spirit while having some fun amid a bleak war. "Disney had this mission of bringing happiness and joy to people. You saw this in Disney from a very young age." He also used his... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
distribution centers with the goal of improving operational performance and ultimately increasing profits and wages and offering a better work environment. The answer from my heart is that I would like to help improve the working conditions of so many hardworking,... View Details