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  • 31 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

loyalties among clients, colleagues, and partners can present ethical issues that can be difficult to manage, says David Fubini, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. “You are an adviser. You are not an employee of the company you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
  • Web

Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting - Recruiting

difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when in our conscious mind we would deem that behavior counter to... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53537 in press Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Advice Giving: A Subtle Pathway to Power By: Schaerer, M., L.P. Tost, L. Huang, F. Gino, and R.P. Larrick Abstract—We propose that interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May–June 2024
  • Article

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Gender; Training; Recruitment; Personal Development and Career
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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  • 06 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

but if the person aligns themselves with only one side, be careful, as that may sharpen the conflict.” In future research, Perlow plans to examine how the backstage influences behavior at companies with hybrid working arrangements, where... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • October 2020
  • Article

Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance

By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Knowledge Work; Discretion; Workload; Employees; Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity
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  • 03 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

strong positions and the most productive cost structures in their industries, can expect to gain market share. Other companies with healthy balance sheets can do so by acquiring weak competitors. 8. Emphasize core values. Although most companies are making View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

friends, and strangers, even when costly. Why do people devote their resources to helping others? In this chapter, we examine whether engaging in prosocial behavior promotes subjective well-being, which encompasses greater positive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

publish a book on the subject of jobs-to-be-done marketing, explains that there's an important difference between determining a product's function and its job. "Looking at the market from the function of a product really originates from your competitors or your own... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • January 1989 (Revised June 1993)
  • Case

General Electric: Compliance Systems

By: Robert L. Simons
After General Electric (GE) is indicted in 1985 for defrauding the Department of Defense, Chairman John F. Welch takes dramatic steps to prevent a recurrence. This case documents the new systems and procedures that are put in place to ensure that all GE employees are... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Communication; Business History; Behavior; Boundaries; Management Style; Cost Management; Electronics Industry
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

suggest that it’s not only the amount a person earns, but also the way they earn it, that links to variations in spending behavior and overall wellbeing, which offers significant insights for the design of sustainable work in operations.... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios

Keywords: by Bhavya Mohan, Michael I. Norton & Rohit Deshpandé
  • Article

How to Bounce Back from Adversity

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz
The article focuses on how companies can be managed to overcome adversity with resilience. The characteristics of resilient managers who provide leadership for their teams and can build resilience in their employees are discussed. The manager's ability to shift... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Leadership; Crisis Management; Managerial Roles; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

subordinates feels micromanaged, which is bizarre.” It’s a leadership approach focused on self-discipline and personal accountability, one that might be considered refreshing in a business world often bogged down by managers who second-guess every move their View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 30 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

University—found that anger can make a person come across as guilty even when they are not. Too often, when an employee is accused of wrongdoing, people evaluating the situation can make snap judgments based on biases and hunches. This... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Clayton S. Rose

    Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    The Information Age has introduced well recieved opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands show individuals their own performance; service companies including Uber and leading hospitals help pick from drivers or doctors based on how others rate them;... View Details
    Keywords: Management Accounting; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Healthcare Industry; Education; Education Industry; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Energy Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Japan; India
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift

    By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo and Kris Ferreira
    Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). These outliers often originate from covariate shift,... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • 14 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

    narrowly defined product space," Tripsas says. "Suppliers, complementary producers, distribution channels, and consumers must often develop new capabilities, beliefs, and behaviors for the product to succeed, creating a... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation