Attitudes - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

extension, which historically has not been a matter of contention. The juxtaposition with a change in leadership at the Federal Reserve also adds to the concern. And finally, I think that businesspeople have long had an attitude that,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

presentations had been essentially identical and the audiences at first blush quite similar, the attitudes he encountered were disparate. "In Northern California, 80 percent of the audience thought climate change was largely man-made and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 22

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1416935 Ethical Discrepancy: Changing Our Attitudes to Resolve Moral Dissonance Authors:L.L. Shu, F. Gino, and M.H. Bazerman Publication:In Behavioral Business Ethics: Shaping an Emerging... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 1981 (Revised February 1993)
Case

Hank Kolb, Director, Quality Assurance

By: Frank S. Leonard and W. Earl Sasser

Designed to introduce the systemic nature of product quality and the complexity of quality problems. Uses a new director, quality assurance, and the discovery of a quality problem. The new director has to decide if it is a real problem, what to do about it, and how to... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Product; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Attitudes; Complexity

Citation

Educators

Purchase

1991
Chapter

Our Paralyzing Individualism

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues

Citation

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

bookkeeping. Emerging from literate and numerate cultures, these merchants left behind an abundance of records that allow us to understand how their companies, especially the largest of them, were organized and managed. These techniques can also be put in the context... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

waking thoughts (Studies 2 and 3). The meaningfulness attributed to specific dreams, however, was moderated by the extent to which the content of those dreams accorded with participants' preexisting beliefs—from the theories they endorsed to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

was an essential ingredient in the success of the transformation. The case ends with a review of changes in financial performance, employee attitudes and customer satisfaction. The case describes the important role that the human... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

these are good things. [They] don't want to just throw those out.—Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University professor Yasunobe went on to discuss the changing attitude within the Japanese government towards big business. There is currently a... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

probe beneath customer preferences and behaviors to uncover the attitudes that provide a more solid understanding of customer loyalty. Why You Need Both Individual And Aggregated Data One-to-one marketing, a term coined by Don Peppers and... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

September 2020
Article

Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han

Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details

Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East

Citation

Find at Harvard

Register to Read

2016
Article

Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs

By: Ovul Sezer and Michael I. Norton

Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We apply their model to processes lying in between the individual and the group—vicarious processes. We review literature in four domains—attitudes, emotions, moral... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Attitudes; Emotions

Citation

Find at Harvard

September 2013
Article

Status Boundary Enforcement and the Categorization of Black-White Biracials

By: Arnold K. Ho, Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Mahzarin R. Banaji

Individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one racial group are not judged as belonging equally to both of their parent groups, but instead are seen as belonging more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the... View Details

Keywords: Hypodescent; Social Dominance Orientation; Intergroup Threat; Hierarchy Maintenance; Equality and Inequality; Race; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Identity

Citation

Find at Harvard

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

both economically risky and a source of reduced purchasing power. This attitude has its roots in the early postwar lending environment, in which loans were seen to be beneficial only if they were accompanied by strong government... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their core business. In the first study of this phenomenon, we investigate how CEO activism can influence public opinion about these issues and consumer View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

dA terms, these are not good conditions for economic growth. Friedman concludes, "Broadly distributed economic growth creates the private attitudes and public institutions that foster, not undermine, a society's moral qualities . Any... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

television. The importance of this is that all these negative portrayals have lasting effects on the field in terms of both who goes into it and the general attitude toward salespeople as they go about their work. Q: The BHR series offers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

a sort of hiding in the closet, driven by fear or panic. Another is you-can't-make-me-move defiance, driven by anger. The last is a very pessimistic attitude that leads to constant hesitation. Whatever the reason, the consequences are... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen

23 Nov 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Self Control and Commitment: Can Decreasing the Liquidity of a Savings Account Increase Deposits?

Keywords: by John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Christopher Harris & Jung Sakong; Banking

2021
Working Paper

Does Social Media Cause Polarization? Evidence from Access to Twitter Echo Chambers during the 2019 Argentine Presidential Debate

By: Rafael Di Tella, Ramiro H. Gálvez and Ernesto Schargrodsky

We study how two groups, those inside vs. those outside echo chambers, react to a political event when we vary social media status (Twitter). Our treatments mimic two strategies often suggested as a way to limit polarization on social media: they expose people to... View Details

Keywords: Political Polarization; Political Elections; Internet and the Web; Attitudes; Social Media; Argentina

Citation

Find at Harvard

Read Now