Spoken Communication - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

high tech community about social issues and the use of its technology. Senior executives of Apple, Tesla, Google, Uber, and Cisco, among others, already had spoken out about the treatment of migrants. A... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

spoken natively; the supervisors speak the other 2. To bridge the gap, the mining industry long ago adopted the use of Fanagalo, a pidgin language developed in the nineteenth century so colonists could View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

individual companies. The research team set out to examine whether these measures of CSR correlate to the languages spoken in each company's home country. Language Matters Their findings, contained in a new working paper titled "Speaking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

airplane metaphors ("soaring," "flying high") and spoken of a "new era for a great company." None of that made it into print. He'd been naive to assume the local paper would be friendly. That's not a mistake I would have made on the East... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

India was hiring in 1960s were all English-speaking and English-educated graduates from St. Stephen’s College and other elite schools of India that were more like British schools that Prince Harry would go to. That was surprising to me given that India is so diverse... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

interpretation of and response to these challenges, but external and internal changes may require corresponding changes in a group's core identity. In a qualitative study of longshoremen in San Pedro, California, we observe an evolution in group identity as we track... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

budgets. These include affirmative budgeting (full influence), consultative budgeting (moderate influence), and authoritative budgeting (low influence). When organizations communicate that employees will be involved in budgeting,... View Details

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