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  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=13257 Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness Authors:Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the grands crus classés of the Médoc By: Malter, Daniel Abstract—This paper addresses the recent debate about the causality of status effects and identifies the symbolic effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

thoughts on the rising price of onions in India? A: This is very bad news for the incumbent government, since the price of onions is a harbinger of electoral distress. It is a bellwether consumer price in India, given its status as a... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
  • 18 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

are the average experience in PE partnerships, Ivashina says. In their working paper released in March, Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership, she and Lerner found that a partner’s pay was often tied more to the person’s View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues. Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle It used to be that we equated power and prestige with a leisurely, luxurious lifestyle. Today, lack of leisure time is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July 1977
  • Article

Social Roles, Social Control and Biases in Social Perception Processes

By: L. D. Ross, T. M. Amabile and J. Steinmetz
To make accurate social judgments, an individual must both recognize and adequately correct for the self-presentation advantages or disadvantages conferred upon actors by their social roles. Two experiments using 120 undergraduates examined social perceptions formed... View Details
Keywords: Perception; Prejudice and Bias; Social Psychology; Judgments; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Situation or Environment
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  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Fable? Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Toby Stuart, and Yanbo Wang Abstract In a market context, a status effect occurs when actors are accorded differential recognition for their efforts depending on their location in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

trends. Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract We study adaptation to income and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

Anat Keinan shows that people who wear funky outfits to the office are often seen as more confident and as having higher status than those who dress to fit in. As writer Dina Gerdeman explains, “The researchers found that observers viewed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

accorded secondary status in this setting given the very limited revenue provided by current international tax rules and the remarkable complexity and distortions required to secure any such revenue. Additionally, it is not clear that... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

be due to an increasing emphasis on innovation. Making a similar argument, Gerald Nanninga said, "Much of the new growth will come from new ventures which reapply core skills in new ways. These usually fall in the cracks between the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

person's commitment to service outside of their profession ... as good an indication as any of a person's commitment to more than just achieving status and making money" (Tammy Doty); 3) encouraging a school's admissions group to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

help others," the "acceptance of personal responsibility for outcomes," and a "bias for action." 5. Use a brash communication style to disrupt the status quo. "The new e-world of speed and flexibility demands... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

individuals willingly succumbing to "group think," waving through a lukewarm idea rather than disrupting the comfort of the status quo. "Questioning long-held beliefs and traditional ways of doing things is a painful but... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
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Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century

By: Tom Nicholas
This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions
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  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

conditions of this non-consensual separation, and even more complex and important, what status it will allow Britain to have going forward. It will have to tow a fine line between being too harsh--to defuse contagion in other EU countries... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
  • April 2022
  • Case

Marsha Simms: Trailblazer in Corporate Law

By: Robin Ely, Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Olivia Hull
Follows the journey of lawyer Marsha Simms from her childhood in racially-segregated St. Louis to the upper echelons of the New York legal community. Describes her education, career choices, accomplishments, and setbacks. Highlights significant moments such as her... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Career; Career Management; Diversity; Inclusion; Equity; Gender; Race; Corporate Finance; Law; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Status and Position; Social Issues; Legal Services Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

knowing "who we are" might depend in part on repeatedly remembering to forget "who we were not." The Enabling Role of Social Position in Diverging from the Institutional Status Quo: Evidence from the U.K. National... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

sciences); family background (e.g. birth order and where the executive grew up); career (including years of labor market experience and number of days unemployed); and current family status (e.g. marital View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

Some reviewers are always critical and leave worse reviews on average; others might always be positive, fawning over every restaurant's spaghetti or tuna sub. Still others are erratic, showing little predictability in how they review. Yelp's cadre of so-called elite... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

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