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  • 14 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

associated with stress. To control for differences in cortisol production, all the women participated in the stress test during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycles, which is the phase when cortisol stress response is the strongest. The women also responded to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

Lane and her colleagues sorted responses evaluating robot arm designs into three categories of evaluator: unscreened, screened through a human resources-like questionnaire examining their credentials, and those that took a robotics skills... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

group, others engaged in activities that stressed individuality (creating personalized nametags, for example), and some focused on the identity of the organization (such as creating a logo for the research lab). After the experiments, participants filled out a short... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • 09 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

participant filled out a leadership questionnaire from the mindset of the prescribed character. Next, participants were told to reach out to someone in their online networks. Some were told to send notes via LinkedIn with the intention of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

Steven Kramer) and I were doing an exploratory study of daily diaries we had collected from 238 people in twenty-six teams working on creative projects in seven different companies. The diaries were in the form of answers to a brief daily e-mail View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

management of his or her fund than during the Internet bubble. We need a study as to the impact of the funds to see what, if any, new regulations are required. On July 26, 2002, the SEC wrote to major hedge funds asking them to fill out a View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Competency Inventory) Explore the internal drivers of your motivations as a leader through the Personal Values Questionnaire self-assessment Create a diagram of your professional network to visualize, reflect on, and better utilize... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

determined by how much they trust their partners. When shown profile questionnaires filled out by their partners (who had been induced to either answer the questions or leave them blank), participants routinely gave less money to those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

complete. What is the Influence Style Exercise? + – The Influence Style Exercise (ISE) is a 20-30-minute self-assessment designed to help you identify which influence styles and behaviors you use most frequently in various contexts. The ISE View Details
  • Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

contexts. The ISE questionnaire was compiled by HBS faculty member Lakshmi Ramarajan and researcher Serenity Lee based on published research. The exercise is made available to participants in Module 3 of the course. Upon successful... View Details
  • June 1990 (Revised October 1991)
  • Case

Lake Pleasant Bodies Case (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Presents a classic dilemma in legal ethics--the conflict between an attorney's obligations as an attorney, in this case to protect a client's confidentiality, and his or her own moral obligations as a person. An attorney must decide how to respond to the father of a... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Questionnaires; Attorney and Client Relationships; Social Psychology; Conflict Management; Legal Services Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

The Business of Love

That’s when David Dewan (MBA 1969) launched Contact Incorporated, in fierce competition with another Harvard startup, Operation Match. Both companies sold questionnaires to students—$3 for Operation Match; $4 for Contact Incorporated—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Better Hiring Through Brain Science

like to give is, ‘Would you get a better read out of someone’s weight if you asked them how much they weigh, or if you just put them on the scale?’ ” says Polli. The online game interactions are precisely timed, so they also offer greater depth of data. The difference... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

Once downloaded on the MedKaz, the documents are erased from HRC’s servers. Prior to a medical appointment, the patient completes a questionnaire stored on the device. The doctor can see a health summary, access past records, and generate... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 22 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

questionnaire to determine their SVO. Sure enough, those with a pro-social orientation forked over an average of $1.22 for the cookie, while those with a pro-self orientation paid an average of 62 cents. "Just as we expected, people... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Negotiating Business in China: A Questionnaire Authors:James K. Sebenius and Cheng (Jason) Qian Abstract Cultural differences can affect negotiations in many ways, from influencing the basic motivations and perceptions of the players to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

Zaltman and Deshpandé started by conducting 16 separate interviews with managers and "research suppliers" from Fortune 500 companies and prominent research firms. The two then honed their inquiry further, mailing 800 View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

see if America believes you. Every position you take has to be defendable.'" So Chiarello, at Mandelbaum's suggestion, did market research. "Five of us sent out an e-mail questionnaire to ten of our friends, asking what Napa... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

for example), and some focused on the identity of the organization (such as creating a logo for the research lab). After the experiments, participants filled out a short questionnaire about their experience in the lab, indicating their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 13 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

City of Brotherly Love's 596 plumbers and plumbing firms at the time of the study. Plumbers were sent a questionnaire to measure specific trust with their current vendors. Six weeks later, the plumbers received a TrapGuard promotional... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service
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