Concerns About Social Acceptance - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

Peer influences appear to be substitutes for direct experience: the effects are strongest for those without exposure to entrepreneurship in their family of origin, and for those who have engaged in little inter-firm mobility themselves. These effects are robust to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

Woods's decision to change his golf swing, DeLong's daughter Sara's decision to stay in medical school while she fought lymphoma, and managers who struggled alongside him throughout his career. Despite his concerns View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

poultry chicken he bred to address the nutritional and income needs of some of the poorest people on earth: India's rural villagers. As of November 2006, Keggfarms was supplying chicks to about 4 million poor villagers, generating incomes... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

to a mutually acceptable agreement. Some families are exceptional at encouraging family members to dream and explore their authentic interests and to express these interests within the family. These families have cultures where family... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

consumers' technological skills and openness to new experiences, and that consumers' beliefs about the social utility of feature-rich products are predictive of their choices of such products. Further, we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

unusual to find stores from the same chain selling a product for different prices in different regions or online. Cavallo attributes this to the transparency afforded by the internet and customers’ concerns View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

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 with the need to maintain productivity. Emphasis should be... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

Are people who travel in town cars and on corporate jets different—on a psychological level—from you and me? Does the availability of luxury goods "prime" individuals to be less concerned about or... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

grit—complete with a social conscience—form the basis of a new Harvard Business School case, "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist." Professor Nancy F. Koehn, a leading historian, coauthored the case with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Rather, each side learns about the interests and concerns of the other and makes good-faith efforts toward achieving joint gains. Unfortunately, while fostering such norms is desirable, it is not always... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

20 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

inspired by the stories of these students. Visit @prideathbs on Instagram for more information and features about the LGBTQ+ community at HBS. Yanzhan Wen (he/him), Class of 2025 Representation is important. My existence stands as a... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

promising potential benefits, concerns persisted about navigating labor regulations, ensuring appropriate vetting, and guaranteeing the quality of work. Sarah Tang, the newly appointed Vice President of... View Details

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

allocation. Investors who care about the volatility of their portfolio should factor in their decisions the time horizon of the corporation. That generates a need for more data that help investors separate companies that are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

and that they needed to commit themselves to the dual goal of producing benefits for society and their firms' bottom lines-to creating "shared value." But the specific actions they could take to bring about this change were less... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

survived to reach the whaling station on South Georgia. He used the telegraph there to try to get through to his home country, but there was no boat available in wartime England. He was worried about his men starving on Elephant Island.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

this, as I note in the book, is that expectations for corporate behavior are constantly evolving. Conduct that would have been ethically acceptable in one era becomes unacceptable as expectations rise. People sometimes forget that... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

predictably, those fictional applicants got accepted at much higher rates than their peers. "We see that admissions officers tend to pick a candidate who performed well on easy tasks rather than a candidate who performed less well at... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

decision, but to guide and mentor the team through the decision process. You may interview candidates at this stage, too, but I suggest this be to help a junior manager resolve concerns they have about the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

highest return on equity. He guided it through the 2008-09 financial crisis without a glitch by avoiding high-risk subprime mortgages and derivatives that felled so many other banks. Concerned about the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

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