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- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
expertise on this unique and growing clientele, ultimately setting myself apart in the industry. It was a strategic choice that clashed with the industry norms of prioritizing rapid asset accumulation, requiring me instead to focus on... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
through his own leadership of the meeting. The purpose of these rules was to introduce new standards of interpersonal behavior and, in the process, to combat several dysfunctional routines. One serious test of Levy's ability to reinforce these View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
both masculinity and competence. In all three realms, work norms encouraged such displays, and organizational practices rewarded them. Research shows that in dangerous, male-dominated work settings, men's tendency to gain respect by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
day, a year of global immersion before college will become the norm rather than the exception.” — ABIGAIL FALIK (MBA ’08), founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year. (Christian Science Monitor online, April 11, 2011) View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
the queue? And how would social norms and a sense of fairness play out along the line? The results were quite surprising. As might be expected, the higher the amount of payment offered, the more likely individuals were to allow a stranger... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
innovation, but it only matters if two firms’ locations are either culturally or temporally far away from each other,” he says—that is, if the two firms possess different cultural norms or don’t have overlapping business hours, defined as... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
Toilette (above) and Young Woman with Peonies (below) demonstrate the influence of social norms on artists’ choices, Murrell says: Frédéric Bazille’s La Toilette (right) and Young Woman with Peonies (below) demonstrate the influence of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
people with good intentions do things that look, for a lack of a better word, stupid,” he says. Finally, Soltes suggests creating opportunities for norm reinforcement throughout careers, allowing people to really live what they learn in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
market-type dispersion by decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Placing the Normative Logics of Accountability in 'Thick'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
Anik and Dan Ariely of Duke University, social norms were used to incentivize employees to give money to charity. Results were published in the paper Contingent Match Incentives Increase Donations. In the study, the researchers told a set... View Details
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
governance structures and norms in place, businesses could help put people, including their workers, and the planet back at their core. Through a series of essays, the book exposes the fault lines between democracy and capitalism and,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
sanctions on the offending students as a condition of graduation. It also recommended continued training for faculty, staff, and students on managing section norms and behavior more effectively, specifically in the area of sexual... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
which looks at the roles of three management groups: worldwide business managers, country or regional managers, and worldwide functional managers. A second new chapter, "Managing the Transformation Process," outlines the structural and process changes and the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
the gender biases of those who control them, then historically male places will tend to be harder on women and to promote only those women who essentially behave "like men." Conversely, once an organization becomes dominated by women, the View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
and elaborate on their normative implications. Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan Authors:Douglas J. Skinner and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract We study events surrounding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
planning, she writes: agreeing on team goals; gaining clarity on each member’s role, function, and constraints; understanding the available resources, ranging from budgets to information; and identifying shared norms that map out how... View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
(recommended) Year 3 Harvard Kennedy School & Harvard Business School Fall Term 2 HKS Elective Courses Getting Things Done: Management in a Development Context Normative Principles of Governance in Development Business-Government... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
against accepted norms and conventions of appropriateness and value. "The very act of creating a market for some of these products that go against conventions and norms of what we value, and of what we... View Details
- Portrait Project
Minal Mehta
scientists or head chefs. As a manager, I will empower my team members to explore and embrace their own creative genius. And, finally, I will reinvent the norms around my own Bollywood persona by doing the forbidden – I will actually kiss... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
their own leadership style and determine their inner compass. They are invited to draw up a contract establishing norms and confidentiality, allowing for openness about vulnerabilities as they share their life stories and confront... View Details