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  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-046.pdf   Cases... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Feb 2017
  • News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human Services and Specialisterne, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 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
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

facilitated research investment in an area of significant social value, patents promoted disclosure. Our findings highlight the importance of complementarities between prize and patent-based incentives in the design of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Politics we observe firms working more closely with NGOs and other special interest groups to preempt unfavorable policy choices, react swiftly to crises, and proactively develop socially responsible strategies. In Public Politics, firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

in the 1960s, with research done here in Boston. Stanley Milgram, the renowned social psychologist, randomly chose people from phone books out of Kansas and Nebraska and asked them to forward a letter to a friend of his in Boston through... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

regulate one's mood in line with the social context, on congruity. Two experiments find that when low self-monitors imagine a context that differs in valence from their mood, they feel more distinctive from the environment while high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Letters to the Editor

lives for market capitalism (the capitalism that, in the name of profitability and globalization, soon destroyed many of their jobs). Many of those who demonstrated then had in mind socialism with a humane face. Winston Churchill is... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

preferences of their peers—and assessed subsequent brain activity during an incidental processing task in which participants viewed popular, unpopular, and novel symbols. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) differentiated between symbols that were and were not View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

experts to discuss how researchers can impact a broader audience, by lending their scientific expertise to pressing social issues, current events, and public debates. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan officer from a US-based social... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

answering the question?) but rather towards a social evaluation goal (Do I like this person?). Listeners were not blind to all dodge attempts, however. Dodge detection increased when listeners' attention was diverted from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

toward a goal of dodge detection (i.e., Is this person answering the question?) but rather toward a goal of social evaluation (i.e., Do I like this person?). Listeners were not blind to all dodge attempts, however. Dodge detection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

students, such as the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which launched in 2003, followed by the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2011. We’re now 25 years into the annual New Venture Competition sponsored by the Rock Center and the Social... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

recruiters, interview with companies, and have private conversations with clients and team members (more on that later). Companies monitor productivity and goals, but in a world where COVID-19 has turned many companies into “federations of remote workplaces,” the... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

Extensions address screening and signaling in hiring, the effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

to firms that are finding themselves outside the action as the clout of a handful of cities grows. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54944 forthcoming Marketing Science U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Schweitzer Abstract—Paltering is the... View Details