Publications

2004
Chapter

The Fallacy of Perfection: Let a New Image of Yourself Emerge

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Identity; Personal Characteristics; Change

2025
Working Paper

Threat and Assimilation: Evidence from Refugees in Germany

By: Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau and Marco Tabellini

This paper studies the effects of local threat on the cultural assimilation and economic integration of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We use representative survey data and... View Details

Keywords: Assimilation; Threat Hypothesis; Migration; Cultural Change; Refugees; Culture; Identity; Germany

2019
Interviews

Interview with Soraya Chemaly on "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger"

May 2019
Article

A Counterfeit Competence: After Threat, Cheating Boosts One's Self-Image

By: S. Wiley Wakeman, Celia Moore and F. Gino

In six studies, we show that after experiencing a threat to their abilities, individuals who misrepresent their performance as better than it actually is boost their feelings of competence. We situate these findings in the literature on self-protection. We show that... View Details

Keywords: Cheating; Self-perception; Self-protection; Competency and Skills; Identity; Perception; Performance

Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

"Perspective Giving: When Black Perspective-Taking + Social Identity Management = Inclusion" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Lex Smith Washington, Assistant Professor of Managament at Oklahoma State... View Details

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

orientation process such that personal identity socialization is a part of it." NOTE TO READERS: In the next step of this research, Professor Gino and her colleagues are looking to discover which... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

The U.S. Army is one of the best training institutions in the world, says HBS professor Scott A. Snook, a retired Army colonel. How does the Army develop leaders? Snook discusses his new book, Making Sense of Officership: Developing a Professional View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

October 2002
Article

Cognitive and Personality Predictors of Leader Performance in West Point Cadets

By: Paul T. Bartone, Scott A. Snook and Trueman R. Tremble Jr.

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Leadership; Performance

2016
Dialogue

Taylor Phillips

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

brand heritage as "a dimension of a brand's identity found in its track record, longevity, core values, use of symbols and particularly in an organizational belief that history is important." The Nobel Prize Heritage Quotient These five... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

June 2013
Article

What Is Privacy Worth?

By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein

Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Rights; Valuation; Ethics; Identity

2002
Article

Personalization and Personality: Some Effects of Customizing Message Style Based on Consumer Personality

By: Youngme Moon

Keywords: Identity; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships

2022
Working Paper

The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluations

By: Billur Aksoy, Christine L. Exley and Judd B. Kessler

An increasing share of the population identifies as something other than male or female. Yet, we know very little about the economic preferences and beliefs of gender minorities. In this paper, we document a “gender minority gap” in confidence and in self-evaluations.... View Details

Keywords: Self-evaluation; Confidence; Gender; Identity; Perception; Income

November 2003
Article

Fostering Group Identification and Creativity in Diverse Groups: The Role of Individuation and Self-verification.

By: William B. Swann Jr., Virginia S. Y. Kwan, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Laurie P. Milton

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Creativity; Identity