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  • 02 Dec 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Fabian Waldinger, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, Department of Economics

  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Eclipsed and Confounded Identities: When High-Status Affiliations Impede Organizational Growth

By: Daniel Malter
I propose that an organization's growth potential may suffer if its identity is eclipsed by or confounded with the organizations with which it collaborates and competes. Using status as a salient feature of identity, I devise two network measures to capture the degree... View Details
Keywords: Distinctiveness; Status; Networks; Resource Acquisition; Growth; Venture Capital; Status and Position; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Identity; Growth and Development Strategy
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    BUSINESS ETHICS: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

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    • March 2024
    • Simulation

    'Storrowed'

    By: Mitchell Weiss
    The game was built to accompany "Storrowed": A Generative AI Exercise, available through Harvard Business Publishing. The game adds a timing element to "Storrowed" and enables the teacher to reward teams for strong prompts or penalize teams for believing AI... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • Article

    Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice

    By: Hayley Blunden, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John and Francesca Gino
    Prior advice research has focused on why people rely on (or ignore) advice and its impact on judgment accuracy. We expand the consideration of advice-seeking outcomes by investigating the interpersonal consequences of advice seekers’ decisions. Across nine studies, we... View Details
    Keywords: Advice; Advice Seeking; Expertise; Impression Management; Wisdom Of Crowds; Interpersonal Communication; Relationships; Behavior; Experience and Expertise; Perception; Judgments; Outcome or Result
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    A Replication Study of Alan Blinder's 'How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?'

    By: Troy Smith and Jan W. Rivkin
    In a 2007 working paper, Alan Blinder assessed the "offshorability" of hundreds of U.S. occupations and estimated that between 22% and 29% of all U.S. jobs were potentially offshorable. This note reports the results of an exercise in which members of Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Wages; Research; United States
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    • December 2024
    • Article

    Human Bias in the Oversight of Firms: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations

    By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya Pérez Silva
    We study the effects of mood as a source of human bias on regulators’ oversight and enforcement decisions. We use weather at facilities at the time of an OSHA inspection to proxy for the OSHA compliance officers’ mood. We find that during periods of good mood due to... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Happiness; Working Conditions; Safety
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    • 27 Jan 2014
    • News

    Harvard Study Suggests Racial Bias Among Some Airbnb Renters Read more: Airbnb's NYC Renters May Be Racially Biased Says New Study

    • November 2020
    • Article

    When the Boss Comes to Town: The Effects of Headquarters' Visits on Facility-Level Misconduct

    By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
    We study the effects of headquarters’ visits on facility-level misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of airline routes to identify exogenous travel-time reductions between headquarters and facilities and test whether such reductions affect facility-level... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Visits By Management; Flight Routes; Control Systems; Compliance Programs; Performance Pressure; Business or Company Management; Management Systems; Governance Controls; Governance Compliance; Performance Expectations
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    • 2022
    • Book

    Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know

    By: J.S. Nelson and Lynn A. Stout
    An authoritative and practical guide to business ethics, written in an accessible question-and-answer format. In today's turbulent business climate, business ethics are more important than ever. Surveys of employees show that misconduct is on the rise. Cover stories... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ethics; Organizational Behavior; Ethics; Governance Controls; Lawfulness
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    • August 2023
    • Article

    Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?

    By: Tom Nicholas
    The influential Whitehall studies found that top-ranking civil servants in Britain experienced lower mortality than civil servants below them in the organizational hierarchy due to differential exposure to workplace stress. I test for a Whitehall effect in the United... View Details
    Keywords: Mortality; Status; Working Conditions; Rank and Position; Welfare; Well-being; Health
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    • June 2024
    • Article

    The Monitoring Role of Social Media

    By: Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli
    In this study, we examine whether social media activity can reduce corporate misconduct. We use the staggered introduction of 3G mobile broadband access across the United States to identify exogenous increases in social media activity and test whether access to 3G... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Twitter; Corporate Accountability; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks
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      Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment

      We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details

      • November–December 2019
      • Article

      Pivoting Isn't Enough? Managing Strategic Reorientation in New Ventures

      By: Rory McDonald and Cheng Gao
      New ventures often experience deviations from their plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and their target customers. Yet research is largely silent on how managers explain such changes and justify their ventures in... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Reorientation; Technology Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Product Development Processes; Organizational Adaptation; Qualitative Methods (General); Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Communication Strategy
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      Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures

      By: Matthew Lee and Laura Huang
      Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected personal qualities of business entrepreneurs. We examine whether social impact... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Framework; Perception; Performance Evaluation
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      • August 2017
      • Article

      Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment

      By: Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas
      We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details
      Keywords: Sales Force Compensation; Field Experiment; Heterogeneity; Loss Aversion; Reciprocity; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits
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      The Scandal Effect

      By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, George Serafeim and Robin Abrahams
      Executives with scandal-tainted companies on their résumés pay a penalty on the job market, even if they clearly had nothing to do with the trouble. Because the scandal effect is lasting, a company you left long ago could have an impact on your current and future job... View Details
      Keywords: Misconduct; Career; Career Management; Career Changes; Executive Leadership; Executive Development; Crime and Corruption; Executive Compensation; Personal Development and Career; Management Skills; Management Teams
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      Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing

      By: Joel Goh and Nicholas G. Hall
      We consider projects with uncertain activity times and the possibility of expediting, or crashing, them. Activity times come from a partially specified distribution within a family of distributions. This family is described by one or more of the following details about... View Details
      Keywords: Project Management; Time And Cost Control; Robust Optimization; Satisficing; Linear Decision Rule; PERT; Management; Cost Management; Projects
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      • 19 Aug 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: August 19, 2008

      Consequences to Missing Quarterly Earnings Benchmarks Authors:Rick Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing quarterly earnings benchmarks, especially the analyst consensus earnings number, is associated with career View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions

      By: Nava Ashraf, Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
      Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are often unwilling to pay for the... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Urban Development; Organizations; City; Infrastructure; Zambia
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