Norms - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

companies set themselves apart and be distinctive? How can Japan innovate? How can the cultural forces and social norms that work against more advanced forms of competition be overcome? That's the challenge. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

sharing, it is helpful to look at private equity's older sibling, venture capital. VC syndication has been the norm here for many decades, and the impact of such syndication has been extensively studied. From this research, several clear... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

flows. The hyperbole was striking: The language of religion—orthodoxy, heresy, dogma—seems for some reason to pervade policy discussions of international monetary and financial issues. And the prevailing orthodoxy had been determined in significant part by View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

norms and how teams will communicate, how they will work together, and how they will ensure psychological safety is established and maintained. It’s not as scary as it sounds; it’s usually a 90-minute or two-hour meeting where you are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

in contexts where gender diversity is viewed as “normatively” accepted. By normative acceptance, they mean a widespread cultural belief that gender diversity is important. In other words, beliefs about gender diversity create a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

Abstract—I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is... View Details

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

changing beliefs and expectations (actions considered acceptable become unacceptable as social norms and values change), and weak internal coordination (actions by one group create expectations that another group cannot meet). To manage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

well documented, little is known about why norms of silencing conflict evolve. To explore this evolution, we draw on an ethnographic study that spanned the entire life of a dot.com, starting with its founding and ending with its sale to a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

this environment. What CEOs told us “Priorities have changed, personally and professionally. There can be no thought paralysis. What will the new norm look like and how do we adapt? I ask myself that on a daily basis.” “In order to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

disciplines which develop their own norms and conventions about interesting research questions and how to answer them. For several decades mainstream academic historians, especially those based in the United States, have devoted almost no... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

market-type dispersion by decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

governance structures and norms in place, businesses could help put people, including their workers, and the planet back at their core. Through a series of essays, the book exposes the fault lines between democracy and capitalism and,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

may develop? "There is this general sense that if you are going to come up with a great creative idea that moves the market in some sector, you better do it for me rather than my competitor," says Silk. While "exclusivity"—one agency, one client—has been the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

innovation and product development strategies. His latest research analyzes how open source norms of transparency, permeable access, and collaboration might work with scientists. What he and his coauthors discovered:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly discovered a lot had been hidden by the fact that everybody was doing well—nobody was being critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

against accepted norms and conventions of appropriateness and value. "The very act of creating a market for some of these products that go against conventions and norms of what we value, and of what we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

especially those that incorporate emerging forms of social media, support that shift. Equally important, though, is the emergence of cultural norms that favor dialogue over monologue. The benefits that accrue from conversational... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

and how they have performed in the past,” Ivashina says. “If someone left and they believe this person is important, there is likely to be a very serious conversation about that.” GREED IS THE NORM The researchers naturally expected greed... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

'I want to increase relationships' or 'I want to create ways in which people have open communication,' then it's very much promotion-focused—a concern with advancement and growth." Studying The Exception To The Norm The researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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