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  • 08 Sep 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

your messages after they are read. The problem: The memory of your uninhibited behavior lingers. Research Papers Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government ServicesCitizens who see the work that government is doing express more positive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • News

Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

community center that brings people together around food and agriculture, teaching some of the lessons of self-sufficiency that were always a part of the Farm Life School philosophy. That DIY attitude is the next big trend, Duda says.... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 2005
  • Working Paper

Silent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations

By: James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people working in organizational hierarchies wrestle with the challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Working Conditions; Knowledge Management; Attitudes; Organizational Culture
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Business Education; Knowledge; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Performance Effectiveness; Attitudes; Behavior; Perspective
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  • September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
  • Supplement

Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)

By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details
Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Recognizing Volunteers and Donors

HBS as "eternally motivated." Clearly, her attitude is contagious. Donor Spotlight Jeanette Montgomery Evert (OPM 13, 1988) and Herbert P. Evert (MBA 1958) Jeanette Montgomery Evert (OPM 13, 1988) and Herbert P. Evert (MBA 1958)... View Details
  • 1979
  • Chapter

Learning from Mistakes Is Easier Said than Done: Group and Organization Influences on the Detection and Correction of Human Error

By: A. Edmondson
Keywords: Learning; Perception; Attitudes; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Power and Influence
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  • January 1982
  • Article

A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation

By: T. M. Amabile and A. H. Glazebrook
Two studies were conducted to demonstrate a bias toward negativity in evaluations of persons or their work in particular social circumstances. In Study 1, subjects evaluated materials written by peers. Those working under conditions that placed them in low status... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Status and Position; Prejudice and Bias; Performance Evaluation; Situation or Environment; Perception; Attitudes
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

By: Tommaso Giommoni, Gabriel Loumeau and Marco Tabellini
We study the fiscal determinants of the French Revolution, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the salt tax—a large source of royal revenues and one of the most extractive forms of taxation of the Ancien Régime. Implementing a Regression Discontinuity... View Details
Keywords: Extractive Taxation; Regime Change; French Revolution; State Capacity; Taxation; History; Government Administration; Attitudes; Public Opinion
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  • June 2021
  • Article

The Role of Beliefs in Driving Gender Discrimination

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Christine L. Exley and Muriel Niederle
While there is ample evidence of discrimination against women in the workplace, it can be difficult to understand what factors contribute to discriminatory behavior. We use an experiment to both document discrimination and unpack its sources. First, we show that, on... View Details
Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Behavioral Decision Making; Gender; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Economics; Behavior; Decision Making
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  • November–December 2019
  • Article

Head, Heart or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time?

By: Sebastian Reiche and Tsedal Neeley
To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions, we conducted a longitudinal study of a mandated language change at a Chilean subsidiary of a large U.S. multinational organization. The... View Details
Keywords: Language; Communication; Change; Employees; Attitudes; Emotions; Globalized Firms and Management
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Commencement 2016 Address | About

intellectual humility: While all of you are extraordinarily smart, you have now spent two years in classes where you have inevitably learned from someone else in the room—and this is an attitude you should continue to exhibit throughout... View Details
  • February 1975 (Revised April 2002)
  • Case

Elizabeth Best (A)

By: Wickham Skinner and Ardis Burst
New political appointee with years of volunteer experience takes over highly responsible job in state government and is met with bureaucratic resistance. View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Organizational Structure; Attitudes; Groups and Teams; Human Resources; Jobs and Positions; Prejudice and Bias; Public Administration Industry
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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera

a business perspective - with a product, a customer base, and quality issues - and has helped instill that attitude in his staff. "It's all about marketing and having your own image," he says. Mulroney is pragmatic, not boastful, when he... View Details
  • 14 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers

Fortunately, changing employer attitudes have opened new avenues, both for Reboot Accel in particular and women in general. "Three years ago, many doors were shut," Flynn says. "But now there's increasing receptivity to... View Details
  • Profile

Farah Ahmed

first, gave me the confidence and courage to always want to take on challenges, regardless of the environment, and have a resilient attitude towards them," she says. Challenging expectations Because she loved learning and always... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services; Manufacturing/Energy
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Business of Animal Protection Club

limited concentration at Harvard Business School? That issue is animal protection. The change in attitude towards animals is undeniable. Animal welfare ballot initiatives receive bipartisan support across red and blue states. Roughly... View Details
  • Web

Native American Heritage Month | Baker Library

Bureau's My Tribal Area data tool to view job and economic data on American Indian and Alaska Native tribal areas by state. Use Statista's "Consumer Insights" tool to unpack consumer attitudes and behavior for American Indians and Alaskan... View Details
  • Web

Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

percent have been placed in or found jobs in the retail and hospitality sectors, earning at least twice the minimum wage on average. By 2019, its target goal is to train 25,000 unemployed youth annually. “We want to write the playbook for how to hire for View Details