by Joseph Lassiter - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jun 2010
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and Zach Scott ClaytonHarvard Business School Note 510-095 This note describes the rapidly changing environment of social media and how managers can leverage it. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510095-PDF-ENG Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2000
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Faculty News

Associate Professor of Business Administration Joseph B. Lassiter Professor of Management Practice Paul W. Marshall Professor of Management Practice Ashish Nanda Associate Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Apr 2012
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Participants assigned to recall a purchase made for someone else reported feeling significantly happier immediately after this recollection; most importantly, the happier participants felt, the more likely they were to choose to spend a windfall on someone else in the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Awards

Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching

By: Joseph B. Lassiter

Received the 2009 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching at HBS for work on the Elective Curriculum course, “Building Green Businesses,” with Forest Reinhardt and Lee Fleming. View Details

19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green

turns out it's tough—particularly a multi-billion-dollar market." Professors like Joseph Lassiter and William Sahlman, and their lessons about entrepreneurial finance and the diffusion of innovations,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

04 May 2017
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The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

May 2021
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Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise, Instructor Version

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton

On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Service Industry; New York (city, NY); Boston

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April 2013
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An fMRI Investigation of Racial Paralysis

By: Michael I. Norton, Malia F. Mason, Joseph A. Vandello, Andrew Biga and Rebecca Dyer

We explore the existence and underlying neural mechanism of a new norm endorsed by both black and white Americans for managing interracial interactions: "racial paralysis," the tendency to opt out of decisions involving members of different races. We show that people... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Race; Judgments; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Characteristics; United States

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13 Oct 2009
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The Partner Police

11 Jul 2023
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Energy Agency Says Global Thirst for Oil Finally May Be Topping Out

03 Nov 2009
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self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2009
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Working PapersLearn-how to Improve Collaboration and Performance Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Joseph H. Carpenter, and Jeffrey D. Horbar Abstract Organizational learning, a prerequisite for high... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2023
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Homophily and Acrophily as Drivers of Political Segregation

By: Amit Goldenberg, Joseph M. Abruzzo, Zi Huang, Jonas Schone, David Bailey, Robb Willer, Eran Halperin and James J. Gross

Political segregation is an important social problem, increasing polarization and impeding effective governance. Previous work has viewed the central driver of segregation to be political homophily, the tendency to associate with others who have similar views. Here we... View Details

Keywords: Political Affiliation; Extremism; Values and Beliefs; Identity; Groups and Teams; Emotions; Civil Society or Community

01 Feb 1999
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NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together

HBS professor of management Joseph B. Lassiter, III, the evening's featured speaker, outlined some of the major issues he addresses in his MBA course Entrepreneurial Marketing. A seasoned entrepreneur and former president of Wildfire... View Details

October 2015
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Hormones and Ethics: Understanding the Biological Basis of Unethical Conduct

By: Jooa Julie Lee, Francesca Gino, Ellie Shuo Jin, Leslie K. Rice and Robert A. Josephs

Globally, fraud has been rising sharply over the last decade, with current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Science

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19 Jan 2011
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Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne