Concerns About Social Acceptance - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

addresses both overwhelming public support and a pressing social need. This article originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson on LinkedIn to read more of their posts. About... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

in the future," Larkin says. "It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it." Insecurity Leads To Dishonesty Social comparison also... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

that as the same customers gain more experience with online DVD rentals, the extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that present bias has a meaningful impact on choice in the field and that people may learn View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

concerned about water reliability and the need for additional infrastructure to provide long-term water security to the region. If convinced that the water problem would be resolved, then Woolf should move... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

large part to their limited conceptions of gender. The fourth frame offers a conceptual leap from thinking about gender as an individual characteristic to thinking about it as a central organizing feature of... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

Luca, is that business leaders need to accept the responsibility of creating a more inclusive society. When they ignore the potential for bias, they may inadvertently harm their customers, he says. Luca has been contacted by Airbnb View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

leaders to “just start with the relationship—even if you don’t feel like you have an established one—because showing care and concern is what creates that relationship. What’s so powerful about empathizing... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

similarly the story about kidneys: why I can't buy yours, although I could accept it as a gift. Repugnance is different in different places and at different times. I feel a little bit like a sociologist when... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

learn about events after the fact. You hear concerns and dissenting views through the grapevine rather than directly. Surprise Four: You Are Always Sending A Message Warning signs: Employees circulate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

out to test, along with HBS research assistant Tom Sühr and Harvard computer science doctoral student Sophie Hilgard, in research published last year in the Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society. “The fair-ranking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

"Second, to explore the organizational constraints and resistance to an open-data approach. All agencies will have issues, of course, about making data available, because historically they may have not. "Third, to probe issues... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

employers and employees as ones of material benefits.” After all, it’s not all about making money, says DeLong, a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice at HBS. What employees really crave, the paper argues, is meaning. “You... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

of individual investors and 30 percent of institutional investors appear to be more inertial than logical. They take the default option, passively accepting the shares offered as consideration in stock mergers and acquisitions. In... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

own self-interests, and any would-be negotiation genius needs to understand how to deal with these obstacles. Our advice is this: be very careful before labeling someone "irrational." Whenever our students or clients tell us View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

by companies themselves, Campbell says. If executives or board members are concerned about company culture, external or internal employee communications may expose potential issues. “There could be all kinds... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

we’ll hire it again. If it does a crummy job, we “fire” it and look for something else to solve the problem. Jobs are multifaceted. They’re never simply about function; they have powerful social and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

about who they are and the kinds of jobs to which they are best suited, they are easily seduced by the money, glamour, or prestige associated with a given job. Some define the "good" opportunities as those that are popular in... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

solution to bringing practical focus into the curriculum is "a year-long on-the-job exposure" for students after the first year of the MBA curriculum as well as "mandatory association with industry projects." "One solution [to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

diverse urban charter school were at first frustrated in their attempts to connect with and socialize students, but learned valuable lessons about asking questions and sharing information View Details