Norms - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

the risk of making snap judgments about people based on the wrong clues. For example, research refutes the street wisdom that poor eye contact is a sign of deceit. Shyness, lack of confidence, and cultural norms can all explain an averted... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

companies set themselves apart and be distinctive? How can Japan innovate? How can the cultural forces and social norms that work against more advanced forms of competition be overcome? That's the challenge. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

organizations vary. Culturally tight organizations have stricter social norms and rules of conduct, and people tend to adhere to them more strictly. There is also a greater appreciation of order, a dislike of deviance, and a greater... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

Surveillance capitalism challenges democratic norms and departs in key ways from the centuries-long evolution of market capitalism. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594754 May 2015 Frankfurter... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

their jobs and the issues they face. I think we have a good handle on it, but I want to see if we can strengthen our existing database, and determine if there's more to be said through that additional understanding. Part of what this is all about is getting away from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

foster organizations' normative motivations to self-regulate without compromising deterrence. We find that facilities with a demonstrated commitment to compliance are more likely to institutionalize self-regulation. We also find that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

number of HBS alumnae founders runs around 25 percent, which is somewhere between VC industry norms and the current HBS class composition of about 46 percent women. There’s more we can do, but we have fantastic role models who have had a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

from the CEO—a process entailing the judicious selection of benchmarks for relative performance evaluation (RPE). We evaluate the efficacy of firms' chosen RPE benchmarks and document that, relative to a normative benchmark, index-based... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

accounts—a tactic that consumers have already used at many online retailers. And industry norms let consumers find ways around almost any rule intended to block multiple purchases. For example, even when consumers are limited to a single... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

norms and how teams will communicate, how they will work together, and how they will ensure psychological safety is established and maintained. It’s not as scary as it sounds; it’s usually a 90-minute or two-hour meeting where you are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

in contexts where gender diversity is viewed as “normatively” accepted. By normative acceptance, they mean a widespread cultural belief that gender diversity is important. In other words, beliefs about gender diversity create a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

Abstract—I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

changing beliefs and expectations (actions considered acceptable become unacceptable as social norms and values change), and weak internal coordination (actions by one group create expectations that another group cannot meet). To manage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

in data. ML methods also address several issues raised by scholars pertinent to the norms of empirical research in the fields of strategy and management (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects with global effects). We provide a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Author: Michael C. Jensen Abstract There is confusion between integrity, morality, and ethics. In our much longer paper on the topic (see "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

seem to lead them to prefer contexts that are congruent in valence with their mood. High self-monitors on the other hand prefer a context that differs in valence from their mood. It is argued that high self-monitors seek a mood-incongruent context to achieve View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

spectrum are rebels. Rebels are defiant individualists, mavericks who buck every institutional norm in following their inner muse. Rebels are potent figures because they have the confidence to reject what society deems important. A... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

partisan politics and hot-button issues. Instead, such statements remind people that community matters—and that civility and constructive engagement are both possible and expected. Set rules of engagement and hold people accountable. Company View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

benchmarks and documents that, relative to a normative benchmark, index-based RPE benchmarks perform 14% worse in their time-series return-regression R2; firms choosing specific peers as RPE benchmarks only modestly underperform.... View Details