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Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions
By: Laura Huang and Jone L. Pearce
Using an inductive theory-development study, a field experiment, and a longitudinal field test, we examine early-stage entrepreneurial investment decision making under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Building on existing literature on decision making and risk in... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Making; Emotions; Performance Effectiveness
Huang, Laura, and Jone L. Pearce. "Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions." Administrative Science Quarterly 60, no. 4 (December 2015): 634–670.
- 20 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege
Keywords: by Josephine Tan and Jon M. Jachimowicz
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
human brain is defective," says Jensen, whose life's work has reached out beyond his research in economics, finance, and accounting to include psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and history. Jensen explains that upsetting information triggers the amygdala, the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Article
AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
By: Julian De Freitas, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet K. Uğuralp and Stefano Puntoni
Chatbots are now able to engage in sophisticated conversations with consumers in the domain of relationships, providing a potential coping solution to widescale societal loneliness. Behavioral research provides little insight into whether these applications are... View Details
De Freitas, Julian, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet K. Uğuralp, and Stefano Puntoni. "AI Companions Reduce Loneliness." Journal of Consumer Research (in press). (Pre-published online June 25, 2025.)
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
particular social or work settings." While agreeing in general, Ann Parker voiced a note of caution: "All leaders at times mask their feelings, especially fear or uncertainty. The danger is that for some they begin to believe... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- September 2007
- Case
Nonverbal Communication: Distinguishing Truth and Lies
This video-based coursework illuminates the importance--and difficulty--of judging whether people are trustworthy. Students can test their skills at assessing whether contestants in a high-stakes game show will cooperate or defect. View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Nonverbal Communication: Distinguishing Truth and Lies." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 908-702, September 2007.
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
provides information and support to moms and sons and promotes positive images of black males. MOBB United for Social Change aims to influence policy at the local, state, and federal levels to impact how black boys and men are treated and... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in purpose in life as an outcome of retirement.” View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
There's a famous line from the movie The Godfather, which is often repeated in corporate settings: "This is business, not personal." Ironically, though, that statement is actually bad business advice. During the Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing (COER)... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Support for the Healers
by the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Health Care in Boston, Schwartz Rounds provide an opportunity for health caregivers to gather and reflect on the emotional aspects of their work. Point of Care provides organizational assistance... View Details
- March–April 2013
- Article
Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations
By: Tsedal Neeley
How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Status and Position; Loss; Spoken Communication; Emotions; Attitudes; Behavior; Globalization
Neeley, Tsedal. "Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations." Organization Science 24, no. 2 (March–April 2013): 476–497.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
week in August and off campus for a week in September. Wyman’s aha moment seventeen years ago came when program participants were challenged to take colored pens and draw their lives. “Mine was a two-dimensional graph in black, and that’s when I realized I’d squeezed... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
program started by teaching sailing skills to children with spinal cord injuries, it now serves children and adults with a variety of physical and emotional challenges as well as cancer patients and veterans. “I thought the best path to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
negotiation? That's a big motivation for us. When we think about what might make women walk into a negotiation with, say, lower expectations than men, one of the explanations for that comes from social psychology. It's called the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- June 2010 (Revised September 2012)
- Teaching Note
Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Anita L. Tucker
Teaching Note for 608171 and 608172. View Details
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Guanxi versus Networking: Distinctive Configurations of Affect- and Cognition-based Trust in the Networks of Chinese and American Managers
By: Roy Y.J. Chua, M.W. Morris and P. Ingram
This research investigates hypotheses about differences between Chinese and American managers in the configuration of trusting relationships within their professional networks. Consistent with hypotheses about Chinese familial collectivism, an egocentric network survey... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Managerial Roles; Relationships; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Trust; China; United States
Chua, Roy Y.J., M.W. Morris, and P. Ingram. "Guanxi versus Networking: Distinctive Configurations of Affect- and Cognition-based Trust in the Networks of Chinese and American Managers." Journal of International Business Studies 40, no. 3 (April 2009): 480–508.
- April 2011
- Case
Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)
By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred
Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Fairness; Corporate Accountability; Emotions; Behavior; Leadership Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Disclosure
George, Bill, and Natalie Kindred. "Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)." Harvard Business School Case 411-009, April 2011.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
capital and labor, disconnecting business from society and posing conflicts between them. She advocates a new approach to leadership and corporate behavior in which companies exhibit, among other things, a common purpose, a long-term view, View Details
Keywords: awards
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Scams | Information Technology
a file, click a link, install a plug-in or tool, or make a payment. These messages often impersonate trusted contacts and use emotive or urgent language to ask you to do something out of the ordinary, or something ordinary in an unusual... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
tour promoting his first book, MouthSounds: How to Whistle, Pop, Click, and Honk Your Way to Social Success, the same fly imitation landed Newman a job as the host of Nickelodeon’s teen talk show Livewire. Since then he has hosted The... View Details