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- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
legitimacy—that is, whether followers believe the leader has earned their position.” "This work suggests that trust can be engineered, at least at the organizational level." We know how to create a great View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
infringing on them—and Marshall was considered a favorable place to sue, since the town had a habit of ruling in the plaintiffs’ favor. While researching patent suits, Cohen was struck by just how much... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
turnover in sales is 25% to 30%, while direct replacement costs for a telesales employee ranges from $75,000 to $90,000 and other sales positions cost as much as $300,000. Moreover, these figures do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
to function effectively in our day-to-day lives. "Our perceptual shortcuts are often out of place in modern capital markets," Baker says, "but we wouldn't be able View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
in the business-to-business space.” Indeed, the kinds of innovation possible in the B2B world seem limitless. By placing sensors on machinery and connecting them to the internet, companies can capture... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
at how that anxiety can change the outcomes of negotiations. In order to induce anxiety in participants, she asked them to listen to the theme from the horror film Psycho;... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
Please fit in accordingly. But research suggests that employee orientation ought to be less about the company and more about the employee. In their paper "Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
When given the choice of whom to work with, people will pick one person over another for any number of reasons: the prestige of being associated with a star performer, for example, or the hope that spending time with a strategically View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
the intermediate future. Terms and conditions related to work should be temporary, and companies should actively experiment to learn how to balance the concerns of employees... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle
By: Anette Mikes
Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
to deliver—is glaring. In part, I think this gap has grown because leadership is such a complex phenomenon. It's a phenomenon partly rooted in psychology with respect to the sense of identity that leaders... View Details
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
whites, according to Federal Reserve data, potentially driving some to alternative sources of capital, like Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites. The pullback in support noted in Kerr’s research is... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
exports provide positive externalities and thus should be encouraged by government, the policy question is how to do so most effectively. One large body of thinking is devoted to identifying general barriers... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
worked on by encouraging employees to develop a personal regime: Exercise at home, meditate, and make sure you reach out and talk to people, even if that socialization takes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
funds; by the end of August 2008, the collective amount represented more than 20% of Chile's GDP. Several critics wanted the funds to be used to improve the poor public education system, income gap, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
mathematical models has turned the negotiated order of organizational activities, which necessarily include particularistic elements, into abstract generalizations that favor quantifiable variables. This paper offers another logic, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
medical professionals can serve as micro-influencers to other segments by posting pictures on social media of their vaccination cards or themselves actually getting the shot. These influencers should... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
"Keeping your eye on all four balls is tremendously important," he said. Strengths that don't satisfy your emotional needs; failing to act differently when the context changes. Placing activities... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
After sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein ignited the #MeToo movement on social media, Hollywood producers began hiring more female film writers than they did before the scandal, new research finds. What's more, producers... View Details