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Application Process - MBA

for who should be your recommenders. We know it is not always possible to have a direct supervisor write your recommendation – we would not want you to jeopardize your current position for the application process. Look at the questions we... View Details

    Diary Study Database Available to Researchers

    Academic researchers now have free access to data from Teresa Amabile’s daily diary study of 200+ professionals working on 26 creative projects in 7 companies in 3 industries. These data cover topics such as motivation, emotion, work environment, creativity, and... View Details

    • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Hubei Lantian (A)

    By: David F. Hawkins, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Nancy Hua Dai
    Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Hubei Lantian Co., Ltd. (Hubei Lantian),... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis
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    • March–April 2022
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    Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies: Police Body Cameras Not Only Constrain but Also Depolarize

    By: Shefali V. Patil and Ethan Bernstein
    Despite organizational psychologists’ long-standing caution against monitoring (citing its reduction in employee autonomy and thus effectiveness), many organizations continue to use it, often with no detriment to performance and with strong support, not protest, from... View Details
    Keywords: Monitoring; Transparency; Polarization; Body Worn Cameras; Quasi Field Experiment; Analytics and Data Science; Employees; Perception; Law Enforcement
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    • 2008
    • Book

    Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant

    By: Michel Anteby
    Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Governance Controls; Production; Organizational Culture; Practice; France
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    • 2011
    • Other Unpublished Work

    The Performance Effects of Regulatory Oversight

    This paper explores the heterogeneity in firm performance that can arise from exogenously varying levels of oversight in regulated industries. We use data on the performance of U.S. commercial banks to show that banks located physically closer to their supervisors'... View Details
    Keywords: Performance; Corporate Governance
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    By: Jorge Tamayo
    Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

    Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
    • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    Spir-It, Inc. (B): Managing People

    When Jack Sindler founded Spir-it, Inc. in 1934, he was the company's sole employee. By 1999, Sindler's firm more than survived its first 55 years. Employment was up to nearly 200, with facilities in two states and work done in three shifts. The product line--which had... View Details
    Keywords: Growth Management; Production; Business Growth and Maturation; Interpersonal Communication; Logistics; Human Resources; Diversity Characteristics; Manufacturing Industry
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      Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies

      Organizational psychologists have long held that monitoring workers saps them of their autonomy and thereby reduces their effectiveness. Yet technology has intensified such surveillance in recent years: Managers now track everything from clinicians’ handwashing to... View Details

      • April 2014
      • Teaching Note

      Jiangxi Agribusiness: (TN)

      By: David F. Hawkins
      [TN for 114-039] Emily Wang, an analyst with Future Securities, a Shanghai-based investment firm, is given the task of making stock purchase recommendations to her supervisor from a number of Chinese common stocks. One stock in particular, Jiangxi Agribusiness... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Analysis; Ratio Analysis
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      • 05 Mar 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

      Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman
      • 16 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

      people who express their passion in this way, then there’s a whole population of people who are also passionate, who we miss.” How passion shows itself in many ways Jachimowicz and his team built their study around surveys of more than 1,800 employees and View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • July 2022
      • Article

      The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others

      By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz
      Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of... View Details
      Keywords: Passion; Self-fufilling Prophecy; Lay Beliefs; Interpersonal Processes; Employees; Performance; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Social Psychology
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      Find Answers - MBA

      required? We require two letters of recommendation as part of the 2+2 application process. Who should my recommendations come from? Recommenders should be individuals who know you well and who can relate specific and relevant details about your abilities and... View Details
      • October 2007
      • Journal Article

      Psychosocial Development and Leader Performance of Military Officer Cadets

      By: Scott Snook and Paul T. Bartone
      Efforts to educate and develop future military officers aim to produce highly competent, ethical and effective leaders to serve the nation. But while there is general agreement about desired outcomes, the underlying developmental processes associated with these... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Leadership Development; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Social Psychology
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      • 01 Aug 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

      among team members who are better prepared for the future than they are. As she put it, “How will the supervisor mentor someone who should likely be fast-tracked?” Les Sherry added, “Older managers & mid-level executives are facing... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 23 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

      encourage employees to reflect on why they might resign. But sensitive and empathetic inquiries can unearth pain points for the organizations, Fuller says. “You can make this a conversation. Teach your supervisors and executives to ask:... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • 05 Sep 2023
      • Book

      Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

      with a creeping sense of shame, fear, and embarrassment. She worried how she would tell her supervisor about the failure. “It really did feel lousy. I remember thinking, ‘I’m reasonably capable. I can find something else to do after I... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 15 Nov 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: November 15

        PublicationsTrue North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development Authors:Bill George and Doug Baker Publication:Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2011 Abstract All too often, we find ourselves forced to confront life's challenges on our own. What... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      How to Apply | Predoctoral Researchers

      Python Two references are not due at the time of application, but are required before an offer is extended. These could be from professors, academic advisors, or work supervisors with thoughts on their experience with the applicant’s... View Details