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  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

  Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 25 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

records of graduate business schools, which tend not to consider situational influences in their evaluation of applicants, and are more likely to accept students from schools with lenient grading norms. Applicants with a GPA that is one... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Party and Firm

By: Joris Mueller, Jaya Y. Wen and Cheryl Wu
This project documents the rise of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on firms in China over the last decade. We propose novel quantitative measures of Party influence and present recent trends in those measures. We corroborate qualitative work and find a sharp... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Economic Systems; Power and Influence; Government Administration; Policy; China
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  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

structure is a bit out of hand and, by any metric, above comparable social media companies. And so, there is definitely an incentive here for them to try to get that in line sooner rather than later. If you compare Meta/Facebook to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • 2007
  • Chapter

Career Patterns and Organizational Performance

By: Monica C. Higgins and James R. Dillon
Traditional research on careers examines how organizations and individuals affect career outcomes. This chapter reviews several specific ways in which career histories have been found to influence organizational outcomes. While we incorporate both upper echelons... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Performance
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  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

In India’s rural villages, social norms dictate that women are to remain in the home, not out and about—and definitely not working. If a woman is seen working outside the home, her neighbors might think... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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    Awa Ambra Seck is an Assistant Professor in the  View Details

    • 07 Sep 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974)

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron; Auto
    • 07 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

    she enters the corner store." What's more, these protections, which have been on a dramatic increase over the last forty years, vary in nature and intent from country to country, influencing the diversity of products that consumers buy.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • 21 Jul 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

    Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Article

    Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness

    By: Tami Kim, Kate Barasz and Leslie K. John
    Given the increasingly specific ways marketers can target ads, many consumers and regulators are demanding ad transparency: disclosure of how consumers’ personal information was used to generate ads. We investigate how and why ad transparency impacts ad effectiveness.... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Customization and Personalization; Information; Trust; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 2009
    • Article

    The Dynamics of Silencing Conflict

    By: Leslie Perlow and Nelson Repenning
    In many organizations, when people perceive a difference with another they often do not fully express themselves. Despite creating innumerable problems, silencing conflict is a persistent phenomenon. While the antecedents of acts of silence are well documented, little... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Management Style; Conflict Management; Societal Protocols
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    • Research Summary

    Research Summary

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    My research has focused on interorganizational relationships, with an emphasis on interfirm strategic alliances, which include voluntary exchange or co-development of products, technologies, or services between firms.  I examine the factors that influence the... View Details
    • Article

    Contagion and Differentiation in Unethical Behavior: The Effect of One Bad Apple on the Barrel

    By: F. Gino, S. Ayal and D. Ariely
    In a world where encounters with dishonesty are frequent, it is important to know if exposure to other people's unethical behavior can increase or decrease an individual's dishonesty. In Experiment 1, our confederate cheated ostentatiously by finishing a task... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Behavior
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    • 22 May 2024
    • HBS Case

    Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

    you. It doesn’t rely on what you say. It observes what you do and choose not to do and builds a model of who you are.” Ghosh’s analysis debuts at a time when TikTok is drawing fresh scrutiny related to how its Chinese owners influence... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
    • 30 Oct 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

    Yeomans, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University; Julia Minson, Harvard Kennedy School; and Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School. It was published in September’s Journal of Personality and View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 2008
    • Book

    Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers

    By: Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman
    Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Nonverbal Communication; Customer Satisfaction; Books; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Consumer Behavior; Failure; Nonprofit Organizations; Behavior; Emotions
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    • 2024
    • Book

    The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal ... And What to Do About It

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? In this book, I address how we can rekindle the fading light of democratic capitalism as an... View Details
    Keywords: Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Economic Systems; Culture
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    • 22 May 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Componential Theory of Creativity

    Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile
    • 22 Apr 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

    The idea of supporting social change has propelled impact investing assets to more than $1 trillion. But what if those funds aren’t as impactful as investors expect? Recent Harvard Business School research indicates that while impact... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne