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- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
socially responsible a company was. Marquis and his fellow researchers based their inquiry on a similar study regarding individual decision-making done by UCLA economist Keith Chen. In a paper published in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
Ross, L. D., T. M. Amabile, and J. Steinmetz. "Social Roles, Social Control and Biases in Social Perception Processes." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 35, no. 7 (July 1977): 485–494.
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
regulation of their industry. Their rash behavior will deprive future generations of entire species of nutritious fish. Long-term thinking about intergenerational issues is lacking in this and many other public View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
investing, especially for smaller investors, and ultimately created greater returns than most professionally managed mutual funds could deliver. That has made index, or passive, funds wildly popular: For the 12-month period ending May... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
knowledge hub. Another priority was identifying and forging working relationships with key decision-makers to drive impactful actions—all business school skills. With thousands dead or missing View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
are good reasons to expect that partisanship will continue to cloud economic judgment around the 2024 election.” It’s not just credit analysts. Similar patterns have been documented among professional asset managers, loan officers, View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 1987
- Supplement
Disctech, Inc., Video
Focuses on 1) the roles of management, auditors, and the board of directors in making judgments about accounting reserves and 2) the task of "controlling" top management. View Details
Merchant, Kenneth A. "Disctech, Inc., Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-530, May 1987.
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If You're Going to Do Wrong, at Least Do It Right: Considering Two Moral Dilemmas at the Same Time Promotes Moral Consistency
By: Netta Barak-Corren, Chia-Jung Tsay, Fiery Cushman and Max Bazerman
We study how people reconcile conflicting moral intuitions by juxtaposing two versions of classic moral problems: the trolley problem and the footbridge problem. When viewed separately, most people favor action in the former and disapprove of action in the latter,... View Details
Barak-Corren, Netta, Chia-Jung Tsay, Fiery Cushman, and Max Bazerman. "If You're Going to Do Wrong, at Least Do It Right: Considering Two Moral Dilemmas at the Same Time Promotes Moral Consistency." Management Science 64, no. 4 (April 2018): 1528–1540.
- Mar 30 2023
- Testimonial
Understanding People to Grow Business
- March 2020
- Article
The Role of Numbers in the Customer Journey
By: Shelle Santana, Manoj Thomas and Vicki Morwitz
At each stage in customers’ journeys, they encounter different types of numeric information that they process using different judgment strategies. Relevant numbers might include budgets, price, product attributes, product counts, product ratings, numbers in brand... View Details
Keywords: Numbers; Heuristics; Numerical Cognition; Pricing; Customer Journey; Information; Consumer Behavior
Santana, Shelle, Manoj Thomas, and Vicki Morwitz. "The Role of Numbers in the Customer Journey." Journal of Retailing 96, no. 1 (March 2020): 138–154.
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
instead concentrate on ways to make our own decision-making processes more transparent to others and to ourselves. Edward Hare put it this way: "Openness and honesty are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
incentives and compensation systems, is investigating his theory that effective measurement of performance must use subjective judgment and qualitative assessments in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 2011
- Working Paper
Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior
By: Francesca Gino and Sreedhari D. Desai
Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Welfare
Gino, Francesca, and Sreedhari D. Desai. "Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-079, February 2011.
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
audience. Imagine, he asked, that you could carry in your pocket a miniature governing board composed of several individual voices and characters whose collective judgment could be called on in times of... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
full-control-to-no-control spectrum, it’s more likely to fall in the ill-defined middle, where company and worker could split control factors many different ways. Trouble is, our legal system can’t be expected to pass View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
boarded a bullet train, headed west as far as they could, and exited in a village to start asking people what would make them buy a computer. What they discovered surprised them. Wandering to an impoverished part of town full of... View Details
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
and Corporate Accountability Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration “This course will offer valuable tools to sharpen your judgment and View Details