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  • 18 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

queries or comments, that person is more likely to keep asking questions and contributing ideas. “If I ask for your help and you kindly give it to me, you didn’t harm my psychological safety one bit,” Edmondson says. On the other hand, if... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 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
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

size and close proximity can help smaller brands instead of harming them. We find that support for small brands goes up when faced with a competitive threat from large brands, versus when they are in competition with brands that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

from 15 percent to 30 percent or more. Would such an increase harm venture capital? I don’t think it would be a good thing, and I say this, of course, with an admitted strong bias. Long-term investment in particular should be viewed as... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

suggests that horizontally homogeneous teams organized tasks in a more efficient way, while vertically homogeneous teams exerted lower effort. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49643 Executive Compensation and Misconduct:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

practice he calls “radical transparency.” That means “giving most everyone the ability to see most everything (to reduce) harmful office politics and the risks of bad behavior more likely to take place behind closed doors than out in the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused. Yet in four laboratory studies, we show that these factors have a systematic effect on how people judge the ethicality of the perpetrator of an unethical action. Specifically, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

their property, no unjustified harm to others, no theft, and no violation of accepted legal codes. The ability to identify empathetically with others is sometimes seen as a necessary component to understanding and complying with such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure Authors:Sergey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

rational assessment of ethicality should not depend on the identifiability of the victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused if the judge and the decision maker have the same information. Yet in five laboratory studies, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

appeals mechanism to review denials of requests for information; Subject all exceptions to disclosure to substantial harm and public interest tests; Limit the discretion of borrowers to determine whether a document should be released.... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

chaos, damage to customer relations, and harm to the brand that swirl around any product recall. Nope. By five o’clock that afternoon, the SmartPak customers who had purchased the batch of the product in question had received either a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

inflexible or unpredictable work schedules, and employers’ failure to grasp how employees are struggling and to provide them with support, according to a new Harvard Business School report. That disregard harms both workers and companies.... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

King and Michael L. Barnett Periodical:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We extend theories of self-regulation of physical commons to analyze self-regulation of intangible commons in modern industry. We posit that when the action of one firm can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

values—of finding unique personal meanings—that employees find inspiration. (iii) Proactively "give sense" around actions that could be seen as values-threatening. When another person takes an action that harms us, we tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those factories are revealed to be dangerous, illegal, or otherwise problematic. While firms are increasingly relying on private-sector "social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

the one hand, it focuses tremendous attention on mental health in the workplace. " But an overreaction to the issue could result in costly ramp-ups of mental health screening of questionable effectiveness. Such screenings may do more harm... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation
  • 16 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design

love of nature. But when I returned recently, as an adult, that same grassy area was filled with trash. It’s hard to watch irreversible harm being done to nature.” A self-taught designer, Shelly started out as a visual arts major at... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss aversion, we propose a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne