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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
between portfolio choice and return realizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51573 In Press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
potential for higher social returns in developing countries, 80% of climate finance still flows to developed nations. The pivotal moment for India lies in the current decisions shaping whether it follows a high or low carbon pathway. 4)... View Details
- April 2020
- Article
The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption
By: Dafna Goor, Nailya Ordabayeva, Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
The present research proposes that luxury consumption can be a double-edged sword: while luxury consumption yields status benefits, it can also make consumers feel inauthentic, because consumers perceive it as an undue privilege. As a result, paradoxically, luxury... View Details
Goor, Dafna, Nailya Ordabayeva, Anat Keinan, and Sandrine Crener. "The Impostor Syndrome from Luxury Consumption." Journal of Consumer Research 46, no. 6 (April 2020): 1031–1051.
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
bring them into the lab and see how they performed and what people thought of them.” As Yeoman’s research shows, AI is often dead-on accurate in pinpointing which products and services people will like. Yet, the research findings also point to a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- March 2023
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-069. On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen and locked up company data. The extortionists demanded 75 bitcoins (worth... View Details
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- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
asserted that negotiation should be a core skill for virtually all managers. Why? How can managers who are not directly involved with deal making assess and hone their own skills on a regular basis? A: Most important managerial problems involve people whose interests... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Tharian, for example, said "common sense is quite often related to wisdom (from accumulated experience vs. the knowledge that the younger generation acquires so rapidly through social networks)." Noting that Webster's Dictionary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni
Ethics program, which is now an integral part of the MBA Program. 1995 John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947) makes a founding gift to create the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative . 1997 HBS opens the California Research Center , its first research... View Details
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Approach Building Trust & Influencing Others Featured Exercises Identify and describe stereotypes that may bias our perceptions and impede your or others’ ability to earn people’s trust Identify which influence styles will most benefit... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above, View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
don’t realize that there are material returns associated with helping these workers,” says Fuller, a professor of management practice. “If I told an executive, ‘You could reduce your turnover of key personnel by 3 percent,’ they would say, ‘Where do I sign?’” The... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
succeed when the odds are against them." Marketers can use underdog narratives to positively affect consumers' perceptions of and purchase of brands, she says. "Underdog narratives are often delivered to consumers through the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
dishonest behavior to all parts of the company's management system and even to its relationships with outside parties. Managers start to feed misleading information to customers, suppliers, and employees, and the CEO and CFO begin to "manage the numbers" to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- Web
The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
writes in Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929–1945 . “ Fortune built on the increasingly populist orientation of the art world as it promoted an integration of culture and capitalism that would combat negative View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
says by phone in New Delhi, home to the venture's headquarters. "And I get the opportunity to be an entrepreneur." Next-generation leaders, more so than their progenitors, must overcome a public perception of nepotism. When Rohan Murthy,... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings of Rakuten, she reveals three... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
negotiation or, say, your relative position in an organization, but rather a perception of the parties in the negotiation as to how much power you have in that setting. And the second component is that it's relative. While I might feel... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
influence one another. It is leading to advice and training designed to change behaviors that influence perceptions and possibly even increase job opportunities and on-the-job success. The work of Amy Cuddy, a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
people’s decisions, our false perceptions can also distort our opinions about others in general. In this case, the more important Clinton voters thought immigration policy was to Trump voters, the more negatively they viewed Trump voters... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman