Norms - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

impact on the company’s identity, its culture, and ultimately, its success. But lots of research shows that people in positions of power are given a lot more leeway to buck social norms than those with less status. Are there limits to who... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

activate a social norm that it is appropriate to pursue interests beyond a basic comfort level, even at the expense of others. It may be this activated social norm affects people's judgment and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

deep and thorough discussion. Our section still gets together regularly to talk about real stuff, and while differences have grown and worldviews have changed in many cases, we are still united in the mutual respect and norms that we... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

retention efforts should incorporate the tenets of cultural intelligence, which address if an individual is consciously aware of others’ preferences, knowledge of norms and practices, a drive to learn about differences, and assessing what... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

organizational forgetfulness. Organizations have to plan for turnover and teach new members the organization’s norms and practices—and how they apply during a crisis. Organizational forgetting doesn’t only occur because organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Ramanna, who holds appointments as the Henry B. Arthur Fellow, supporting the research and teaching of business ethics, and as a Marvin Bower Fellow, helping faculty launch innovative new business agendas. "Capitalism delivers on certain View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

the rough-and-tumble of business everywhere, let alone in conditions of turbulence where corruption may be the norm and not the exception, it may seem almost counterintuitive to believe that maintaining the highest standards, including... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

Overview

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

at Urbana-Champaign. “Our study suggests that an increase in wages will decrease theft, but won't fully pay off” With this research, Sandino and Chen contribute to a growing body of knowledge about how wages affect employee behavior and social View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

proactive about asking questions to best understand company norms and the optimal ways of getting work done. You won’t be looking over the shoulder of your manager or sitting next to your peers so if the company is not explicit about... View Details

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

service providers—that are hiring to fill new demand. Also, remote work will quickly become more the norm than the exception on the other side of the pandemic, so organizations should start learning now how to prepare for the Work from... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

Editor's note: This is the first of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this first of two articles, Davis discusses leadership models. Part One: Global Norms And The One-leader... View Details

27 Apr 2017
News

Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) DONOR: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship; N.C.T. Liu Family Fellowship In explaining what prompted him to establish... View Details

Portrait Project

Aman Kumar

being alive. And for the times we choose to forge ahead, we make the rules. The structures we are empowered and constrained by are designed only by people, and thus can be improved by other people. I choose to spend my life where these View Details

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

group of households that did not receive a soap dispenser; altogether, 1,400 of the 2,943 households received dispensers. “The monitoring experiment tried to understand the beginnings of social norm formation: whether third-party... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

to what sorts of experiences lead to impasse, they could be anything: perhaps a sudden, unanticipated change at work—which happens all the time. The norm is change. There is much talk about change management, but the fact of the matter... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

mock class to a lecture hall full of their colleagues, who play the roles of students and mentors in providing feedback after the fact.) Interactive learning through office norms Less formally, however, managers can create more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

parents we face the challenge of trying to balance and support two careers (for which we get regular pushback despite changes in social norms in the US) while still having the time and energy to be good and present parents and partners.... View Details

Web

Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

to HR to help improve the workplace for everyone.” AGE 38, SOUTH ASIAN, TECHNOLOGY, UNITED STATES 2 ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS Prior research has found that a set of organizational norms known as “masculinity contest culture” are associated... View Details

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

rules and norms between nations. "Just the conversations that are happening in the UN are important in determining international priorities—do we go after land mines, or gender disparity, or corruption? Any of these decisions will... View Details