silence - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

learn to silence their critical voices. The design firm IDEO, in its brainstorming sessions, tells participants to produce, for example, 150 ideas in less than 45 minutes. The impossible time limit and quota forces them to submit whatever... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant, Bloomberg, April 2, 2019, Bloomberg.com Kevin Roose, YouTube’s Struggle To Silence the Stars Who Sell Conspiracy, The New York Times, February 19, 2019, pp. B1-B2. View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

inner workings of his own employer. “Vocal silence allows organizations to instill rather than impose morals” Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education chronicles Anteby's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

in the Government Bond Market Authors:Robin Greenwood and Dimitri Vayanos Publication:American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (forthcoming May 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. The Dynamics of Silencing Conflict... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

the time-cards of their teammates and are quite effective at their job. Q: You note that much silence surrounds the practice of creating homers. Why is the practice not discussed more openly by employers and others? A: Homer making first... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

speak out about experiences of bias (Hewlett, Marshall, & Bourgeois, 2017). Silence about race in the workplace compromises relationships (Phillips, Dumas, & Rothbard, 2018) and work engagement (Hewlett et al., 2017). It also... View Details

Keywords: Re: Mandi Nerenberg

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

then, the legislation often has been interpreted as a prohibition on any federally-funded gun violence research, as explained in the Journal of the American Medical Association article “Silencing the Silence on Gun Research.” “Lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

determination of compensation and, if so, how? Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making Our natural tendency to maintain silence and not rock the boat, a flaw at once personal and organizational, results in bad—sometimes deadly—decisions.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

fruition. The typical pitfalls encountered in group decision-making are all too familiar. Who hasn't witnessed, for instance, the silence around a conference table as meeting participants turn suddenly speechless, unable to generate novel... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

next,” Sadun explains. ‘Employees cannot live in the dark’ Even if a temporary lull in communication is likely during a CEO transition, long-term silence doesn’t have to be inevitable, the researchers say, citing Satya Nadella’s ascent at... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

weather, an observation about work (“We’ve got quite the agenda for this meeting!”), or even just the day of the week (“Happy Friday!”) After the meeting, follow up one-on-one with a question or to say “thank you.” "Gratitude and praise are free and can be a way to... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

06 Sep 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

themselves. Now more than ever, American society needs this kind of exchange of ideas.” Bill added, “All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to remain silent.” Jesteeleconsult commented, “Looking the other way in times of such outrageous and inhumane... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

organization through the actions and the silence of leadership. Not only can ethics be taught, it is being taught every time people watch what you do and what you don't do. The issue is not whether ethics can be taught, it's whether the... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

In his 1641 treatise, Meditations on First Philosophy, philosopher René Descartes introduced the concept of an "evil genius," a powerful force of nature who is equally clever and deceitful. Since then, the world has given us plenty of examples—Hannibal Lecter... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

between men and women—as opposed to hiring biases, gender discrimination, or a hostile workforce—were at least partially responsible for the low numbers of women in tech. At the time, 20% of Google’s tech workforce, and 31% of its overall staff, was female. Damore also... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

silence his anticorruption activities. The deputy governor of Kirov called the charges "complete nonsense." Another case, Caijing Magazine, set in China, looks at how an inside-outsider, Wang Boming, uses his independent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

forecast dispersion increases and forecast accuracy decreases." For those wishing the full story, read "Is Silence Golden? An Empirical Analysis of Firms that Stop Giving Quarterly Earnings Guidance." What is to be done? A... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

acknowledged, oral history can still be seen as a critical source of data on opinions, voices, and judgements on events in which there was often silence in written records. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

offering more ways of tracing and communicating such activities," says Healy. (He wrote an article article on such initiatives in the Harvard Business Review with HBS Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna.) If the most egregious forms of corruption are going to be rooted... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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