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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
describes the troubling experiences of a young man, Jerry, in his first real job. Jerry sells insurance to the poor on behalf of a large, faceless organization. The insurance he's selling is bogus and he knows it. His impoverished clients... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
resent your attempts to exert power over them. “If you fake leadership, people will be unwilling to follow your lead” Developing as a leader is hard work. It is similar to the rigorous training and required experience that surgeons,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
going to work, but you can certainly look at a lot of deals and say, "Even if everything went right, it still wouldn't be worth doing. Q: What was the rationale for introducing The Entrepreneurial Manager into the required MBA curriculum? HS: When you look at the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
experience vividly once we were back home. As we went from one tiny, packed store to the next, we noticed that amid the traditional shops lining the souk's enchanted streets were other shops filled with fake designer handbags and knockoff... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
to best negotiate in an uncertain environment? Michael Wheeler advises looking to military science for winning strategies. Career Advancement without Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
researchers design an experiment among themselves, only going to the field when they're ready to conduct the experiment on members of the community. In this case, though, the academics designed an View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
at a company that would act as an avenue rather than a barrier to his vision of the future of technology. It was Noyce's silicon integrated circuit that gave "Silicon Valley" its name. Andrew Carnegie's career provides a guide... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
gang-controlled neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago as well as his career experiences in both the public and private sector. These include stints at Harvard Business School, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
bad behavior causes memories of those acts to gradually become less clear—a phenomenon they call “unethical amnesia.” Research Papers Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing This study in rural West... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
problems, hence the potential improvements from our framework come at essentially limited extra computational cost. We perform numerical experiments drawn from three di erent application areas (portfolio optimization, inventory... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
because their clients' professional careers are often short lived. How Should I Think About Brand Dilution? Porsche's Risky Roll on an SUV Why would any company in the world want to locate in a high-cost, high-wage economy like Germany?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
unfreezing a labor market that saw jobs going unfilled even as people were looking for work? Has it created a pool of “new” talent—that is, prospective employees with work experience seeking new career... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
uncovered by Cohen’s team apply to the coronavirus vaccines? The short answer: Yes, and the more rushed the approval process, the more likely patients will experience side effects from these drugs, Cohen says. We asked Cohen to discuss... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
"The central African thunderstorms are amazing," Virts said. "They're so bright that the modules of the space station light up." He repeated the point for emphasis. "The thunderstorms are so bright that they light up the space station from... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency. Experiment 1 reveals effects of indirect agency under conditions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
these programs often have years of combat arms training and experience (for example, as pilots, ship captains, armor commanders). For decades, many have observed that government program managers and their staffs are intelligent and... View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
stress frequently, but it's a hard thing to teach in a classroom. Each year, thousands of business school students enroll in courses on finance. Their sights set on a career in money management, they dutifully study theories such as the... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
result, work performance. We also examine sources of variability in networking-induced feelings of dirtiness by proposing that the amount of power people have when they engage in instrumental networking influences how dirty this networking makes them feel. Three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne