Norms - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

and the normative orientation of medical professionals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54600 Summer 2018 California Management Review CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics By: Lyon,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

violate the accepted norms and rules of engagement. If someone clearly engages in personal attacks or withholds a dissenting view only to obstruct the implementation later, they need to be held responsible for such dysfunctional behavior.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

norms and how teams will communicate, how they will work together, and how they will ensure psychological safety is established and maintained. It’s not as scary as it sounds; it’s usually a 90-minute or two-hour meeting where you are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

in contexts where gender diversity is viewed as “normatively” accepted. By normative acceptance, they mean a widespread cultural belief that gender diversity is important. In other words, beliefs about gender diversity create a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

Abstract—I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

parents, they wanted to be proud of me and wanted to feel confident they had launched me on the road to a better life. Although most of us grow up as products of our families, we are also heavily influenced by the social norms manifested... View Details

02 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on 47... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

to help each other when we’re going through a difficult situation.” A more subtle way managers can change norms in the group is by encouraging and supporting emotional acknowledgment whenever they see it in action. When acknowledgement... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

that is no longer the case. “You don’t have to come to campus to be successful at HBS, you can do everything virtually.” said Molly. This has actually become the norm as many recruiting partners who have hired students year over year do a... View Details

Keywords: Technology

10 Mar 2021
News

Sister Soldier

Author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) has been here before—speaking with palpable enthusiasm and urgency about women who have defied cultural norms and changed the world around them through acts of bravery and heroism. In her first book,... View Details

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

changing beliefs and expectations (actions considered acceptable become unacceptable as social norms and values change), and weak internal coordination (actions by one group create expectations that another group cannot meet). To manage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

to bring the private, public, and nonprofit sectors together to work on making India cleaner and greener. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, associate editor Julia Hanna talks to Kidwai about how to change cultural... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

for organizational theory. The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta Abstract Openness and free information sharing amongst scientists are supposed to be core View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA

the end of all scheduled events. Dress Code Students are responsible for packing attire that is appropriate for the weather and respectful of cultural norms in the immersion location. Students are responsible for confirming dress codes... View Details

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

this environment. What CEOs told us “Priorities have changed, personally and professionally. There can be no thought paralysis. What will the new norm look like and how do we adapt? I ask myself that on a daily basis.” “In order to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

disciplines which develop their own norms and conventions about interesting research questions and how to answer them. For several decades mainstream academic historians, especially those based in the United States, have devoted almost no... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

number of HBS alumnae founders runs around 25 percent, which is somewhere between VC industry norms and the current HBS class composition of about 46 percent women. There’s more we can do, but we have fantastic role models who have had a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

agricultural sector, which is respectful of the structural and cultural norms that still persist today. At the core of WayCool's strategy lies a deep understanding of the challenges plaguing Indian farmers – from fragmented supply chains... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Private Equity under Investigation

behavior in the Justice Department’s crosshairs — deal sharing — is an important aspect of this competition that benefits us all. To understand the benefits of deal sharing, it is helpful to look at private equity’s older sibling, venture capital. VC syndication has... View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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