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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • News

Social Science Palooza

  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we conducted a randomized field study of a WalkRounds -based program. Research... View Details
Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Determinants of Top-Down Sabotage

By: Hashim Zaman and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate the conditions that motivate managers to impede the growth of talented subordinates due to fears of future competition for their own positions. Our research expands on existing tournament and contest theory literature that considers peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Management Skills
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  • October 2013
  • Article

License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior

By: F. Gino, E. Krupka and R. Weber
While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory policies to firms' and... View Details
Keywords: Ethical Behavior; Dishonesty; Regulation; Selection; Social Norms; Behavior; Ethics; Societal Protocols
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  • July 2022
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The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others

By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Self-fufilling Prophecy; Lay Beliefs; Interpersonal Processes; Employees; Performance; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Social Psychology
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  • 2019
  • Article

Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'

By: Elizabeth E. Richard, Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik and Karim R. Lakhani
This paper presents NASA’s experience using a Center of Excellence (CoE) to scale and sustain an open innovation program as an effective problem-solving tool and includes strategic management recommendations for other organizations based on lessons... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Culture Change; Open Innovation; Center Of Excellence; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Change Management
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    Value Shift

    Today, corporate accountability is as vital to the bottom line as an effective business model.  Value Shift makes a strong case for the merits of corporate responsibility and shows how a value-positive orientation contributes to superior performance through... View Details

    • April 1997 (Revised July 1997)
    • Case

    KPMG Peat Marwick U.S.: One Giant Brain

    Demonstrates how organizations can move toward creation of processes and information technology infrastructures for effective knowledge management in order to enhance performance and productivity. More specifically, describes the knowledge management strategy of KPMG... View Details
    Keywords: Internet; Information Technology; Knowledge Management; Service Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
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    • 22 Jul 2021
    • News

    What’s the Purpose of the Office – and Do We Still Need It?

    • Research Summary

    Top Management Teams

    Michael Roberto is studying how senior management teams function, and how chief executives lead these teams effectively. Many chief executives can identify their top management team, but this set of executives does not necessarily perform critical tasks and make... View Details
    • 01 May 2018
    • News

    Why Today's Young Professionals Are Turning To Knowledge Entrepreneurship

    • Research Summary

    Financial Incentives

    My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

      Expertise Dissensus: A Multi-level Model of Teams' Differing Perceptions about Member Expertise

      Why are some teams more effective than others at using their members' expertise to achieve short-term performance and longer term developmental benefits? We propose that a critical factor is expertise dissensus-members' differing perceptions of each other's level of... View Details

      • Teaching Interest

      MBA Required Curriculum Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)

      By: Rakesh Khurana

      This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.

      The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context of:

      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

      By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
      Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; India
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        Dutch Leonard

        Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
        • Forthcoming
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        A Dynamic Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior

        By: Katherine B. Coffman, Paola Ugalde Araya and Basit Zafar
        Many decisions—such as what educational or career path to pursue—are dynamic in nature, with individuals receiving feedback at one point in time and making decisions later. Using a controlled experiment, with two sessions one week apart, we analyze the dynamic effects... View Details
        Keywords: Feedback; Beliefs; Stereotypes; Self-assessment; Gender Gap
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          Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

          The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects on... View Details

          • 04 Nov 2013
          • Research & Ideas

          The Real Cost of Bribery

          analyze the negative effects of bribery on corporate performance. The results of his study, detailed in the paper Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery, surprised him. As it turns out, the biggest problem with corporate corruption... View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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          How Real Sales Learning Happens: In the Flow of Work

          By: Yuchun Lee, Mark Magnacca and Frank V. Cespedes
          Most learning in sales is through peer learning in task-specific contexts, and the effects are cumulative because modeling behavior is a big driver of how salespeople develop. This is very different from the experience in most training seminars, especially if the... View Details
          Keywords: Sales; Learning; Training; Performance
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