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  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

character of the CEO and allows Barton to "walk in the shoes" of the CEO to see from his perspective why he didn't follow Barton's recommendation. Q: Barton seems to accept and perhaps appreciate the different personalities and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

substantially when the managers and lawyers work as partners both to craft the objectives and to devise the means of accomplishing them. Fifth, every firm should have a general counsel or chief legal officer—one person either in-house or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Science Quarterly, a research team finds that shifting the focus to an employee's personal identity leads to an increase in both employee retention and customer satisfaction. "Organizations will talk about recruiting from outside the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • 25 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts?

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Ian I. Larkin; Education
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

essential skill to master for creating an edge in the innovation economy is the ability to tell stories, to motivate others to join you on an unknown journey. What are the key ideas behind learning to be a storyteller? Kanter: Effective leaders are storytellers. While... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

and on the external situation (e.g., a rise in cases), and communicate this to your employees. 3. If a solution works, share it. If a manager finds a remote/flex arrangement that works for one person on the team, share it with others.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 10 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health advertising campaigns that reached 2.1... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology
  • 14 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

What do Porsche fanatics, a video game hater, and a person who cooked two weeks' worth of meals in a rice cooker have in common? They are all "extreme consumers"—those whose tastes are so out there that mainstream market researchers tend... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Aug 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

protagonists—whether in person or virtually—narrowed these gaps. Male students rated cases with an in-class female protagonist more highly than cases in which the protagonist didn’t come to class. The same pattern was true for female... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's multiple ties to actors inside and outside its industry. We theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Processes; Adoption; Customization and Personalization
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  • 2014
  • Article

In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization

By: Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski
Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs have emerged worldwide with the hope of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Identity; Socialization; Youth; Youth Service Programs; Identity; Mission and Purpose; Age; Personal Development and Career; Service Industry; Europe
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  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

them white, came out to support him. Why did Donald Trump’s candidacy appeal to so many women voters? Although his election has been attributed primarily to disenfranchised citizens, the data suggest otherwise. Women from varying... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

By: Pian Shu
Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance
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  • 18 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

they use their products and services. “It’s not enough to slap your brand on Facebook and expect things to happen,” John says. “But if you see your friend booked a hotel on Facebook, that kind of endorsement is more likely to be effective than if the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology
  • 09 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

personal and professional changes to foster more positive connections among racial groups—interactions that studies have shown have the potential to reduce biased behaviors. "Awareness alone is not going to change the world. It's about... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 02 May 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

source of criticism from those preferring research based on large data bases of quantitative information and advanced analytic techniques. "It can be a living hell for some distinguished CEOs returning to the School thinking that they can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

by understanding the role of hormone levels. ©iStock.com/VIPDesignUSA For eons, academics have studied the forces behind unethical acts, disturbed and intrigued by scary real-world data on corporate corruption. The Association of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

uniform and are typically assessed on final goods. However, trends in capital taxation are mixed, and capital income tax rates remain well above the zero level recommended by theory. Moreover, some of theory's more subtle prescriptions, such as taxes that involve View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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