Opposition - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance." Contractive body postures such as folded arms have shown the opposite effect, decreasing testosterone and increasing cortisol. Bos and Cuddy wondered whether there might... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

firms flatten, they are actually pushing some decisions toward the top of the firm. "The conventional wisdom of delayering is that it's about pushing decisions down," Wulf says. "But our research finds it's not as simple as that. It appears that the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

disadvantage; in fact, the opposite can be true. Finally, an independent national organization has grown out of my 1995 HBR article "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City," which is included in this collection. I find that... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

testing a new work environment. “I had worked at two smaller companies and founded a startup, so I thought, ‘What’s the opposite of that in retail?’” Krantz said. When she saw an internship opportunity at Dick’s Sporting Goods posted on... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Dec 2009
News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

financial products are systemically risky, like credit default swaps. What would you do? My proposal is just the opposite of the Treasury’s. I would put the Fed in charge of risk monitoring because that’s where it has the most expertise.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

and Section Bingo based on commonly used words and nonwords such as “incentivize”), the funniest day for our section had to be when we had “come as your opposite sectionmate” day. For our first class in the morning one day late in the... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

research points out that this is a mistake. For example, both India and China often defended policies of requiring multinationals to have local partners by arguing that this policy encouraged technology transfer. However, this policy may have in fact had the View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2005
News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

Hernandez of New York University, dive into the topic in their working paper Political Identity and Trust. “Our biggest headline finding is that it seems that it’s beliefs that drive trust, not taste" If it seems we are a nation of View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

opposite way than that suggested by the social norm: they punish transgressors more severely on their birthdays, both in the realm of actual drunk driving enforcement and in an experimental lab setting where participants were given the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

where distant employees work sequentially around the clock, can work well for highly routine, simple, or administrative tasks that require little real-time communication. But opposite schedules are less effective for complex, team-based... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

the federal government to create new clusters in the United States. He points to the rise of biotech in Harvard's backyard, which began despite government opposition in the 1970s. Clusters "tend to emerge much more organically, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

01 Oct 2001
News

Q&A: Orin Smith

work was under way to repair damage done by February's 6.8 magnitude earthquake. Despite this activity — to say nothing of the high-octane pace of Starbucks' growth — Smith was calm and seemingly unflappable, quite the opposite of the... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

percent. But when given the specific call to action, the opposite was true. Strongly loyal brothers cheated at a rate of 66 percent, compared to only 42 percent for those who were less loyal. For the first time, in other words, loyalty... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2015
First Look

December 1, 2015

in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers on the opposite side of the spectrum: those who are harmful to organizational performance. In extreme cases, aside from hurting performance,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

"If you are a rock- star Internet guru who has founded a company and needs to make more money, it would be much more efficient to use crowdfunding than calling 10 of your friends in Silicon Valley." Such a result would likely lead to the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

those declines. Our argument is built around three core themes. Theme 1: When a Country Loses the Capability to Manufacture, It Loses the Ability to Innovate Innovation and manufacturing are often viewed as residing at the opposite ends... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

structure shapes performance in problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both search for information and search for solutions. Our results show that the effect of network clustering is opposite for these two important... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

have delayered, flattened firms can exhibit more control and decision making at the top. Managers take note. Flattening can lead to exactly the opposite effects from what it promises to do. Read the paper:... View Details