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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
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  • 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
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Well-being; Emotions; Applications and Software
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  • 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

By: Michael A. Wheeler
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
Keywords: Nonverbal Communication; Competency and Skills; Moral Sensibility; Emotions; Trust
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  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 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
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  • 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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
Keywords: Business Processes; Change; Employees; Emotions; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • Web

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
Keywords: Susan Young; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment