Awareness - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

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

competence, particularly when they believed the person was aware of the established norm but deliberately chose to make a fashion statement by wearing a standout style. This person was often viewed as autonomous; confident enough to act... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

that may make the devil more salient and push us toward the wrong path," she said. "The forces that tend to lead us down the wrong path are quite subtle we're often aware that we're cheating but aren't View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

taking action that seems to deter subsequent scandals, at least in the short term. A college is 13 percent less likely to have a second incident one year later, relative to, say, a few years later. Luca points to increasing awareness of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

financials and engage with corporate management. “But when [index funds] become the largest shareholders, they need to take a stand,” he says. And for the first time, this appears to be happening. Large index funds such as BlackRock and Vanguard have become View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

consideration given to the underlying economic activities, the unique cluster boundaries, or the appropriate benchmark of economic concentration. Our goal is to increase awareness of the complexities behind cluster identification and to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

But I’m very much aware that if we’re in recession at the end of the crisis and companies are even more focused on the short term, business leaders may choose to reduce their commitment to environmental and even social sustainability.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

colloquium and asked for their views. Do CEOs see these threats as imminent? In a sense, some of these issues are now factoring into daily business. Consider one example that involves the concern about wealth and income disparity as a threat to capitalism:... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

also taken some steps to level the playing field by making consumers more aware of the resources they have. In 2015, FINRA launched a national ad campaign to highlight its BrokerCheck service, with spots on cable that show, for example, a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

haunting benchmark not only for Exxon-Mobil but for global corporations at large, which have since become keenly aware of their exposure to this type of episode. Shell was also deeply affected by the 1995 dispute with Greenpeace over... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

whether one pays it willingly or begrudgingly, with or without awareness of its existence." Thomas and Gabarro discovered that the successful African-American, Asian-American, and native-born Hispanic executives in their study... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

and the special demographic composition of the refugees to determine the prices and quantities that characterize the market. An awareness of the dynamics of the refugee camp economy has important implications for practitioners and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

productivity. Ideally, you need to make your technical staff aware of the tradeoffs and the technical/competitive landscape without building barriers to creativity. One thing is to appoint a technical gatekeeper that will keep close watch... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

Harvard Business School. “My sense from teaching many years is that this was a very interesting issue for executives because companies often don’t get it right.” A watch connoisseur himself, Thomke had been aware of the company for many... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

aware of the experiment. The researchers tracked the employees’ sales performance before and after the experiment, noting how a quota change would affect the historical top salespeople as well as the historical worst performers. They... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

awareness. In this paper, we review research on both bounded ethicality and bounded awareness and connect the two areas to highlight the challenges of encouraging managers and leaders to notice and act to stop unethical conduct. We close... View Details

21 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

executives should invest in talent. In allocating resources, should they focus on building talent or acquiring superstar talent? Elberse says strong evidence suggests that it is hard to find long-term success without having a strategy that revolves around superstars.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education

26 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

"disconnect" between marketers and their customers occur? A: In my research, what I learned was that despite the fact that most companies are deeply committed to the concept of differentiation, at any given moment they are also intensely View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

auction may not be a good predictor of the final outcome, because much of the bidding activity takes place just before the end. One good reason for this delay is that early bidding reveals intentions and information that may be exploited by competitors if there is... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

requires listening as well as talking. But it is through engagement that companies remain aware of the interests of their different stakeholders and how these interests are in alignment or conflict with each other. A great deal of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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