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  • Research Summary

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My research is at the intersection of organizational strategy, global sustainability governance, and social change. It explores the diffusion of sustainability standards to non-traditional sectors (e.g. jewelry, cannabis, plastics, pets) and the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Extractive Industries; Luxury; Gold; Institutional Change; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Hybrid Organizations; Governance; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pollution and Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Diversification; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Tourism Industry; Africa; Latin America; Europe
  • November 2022
  • Article

My Boss' Passion Matters as Much as My Own: The Interpersonal Dynamics of Passion Are a Critical Driver of Performance Evaluations

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Andreas Wihler and Adam D. Galinsky
Companies often celebrate employees who successfully pursue their passion. Academic research suggests that these positive evaluations occur because of the passion percolating inside the employee. We propose that supervisors are also a key piece of this puzzle:... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Job Performance; Motivation; Emotions; Performance Evaluation; Interpersonal Communication
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    Work‐from‐anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility

    An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work‐from‐anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work‐from‐home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility,... View Details
    • Forthcoming
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    Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact

    By: Michelle A. Kinch and Ryan W. Buell
    Prior research in social psychology has shown that when people feel anxious, they seek advice from others. However, companies that operate in high-anxiety settings (like financial services, health care, and education) are increasingly deploying self-service... View Details
    Keywords: Anxiety; Self-service; Empirical Operations; Behavioral Operations; Communication Technology; Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Trust; Satisfaction; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2023
    • Chapter

    Marketing Through the Machine’s Eyes: Image Analytics and Interpretability

    By: Shunyuan Zhang, Flora Feng and Kannan Srinivasan
    he growth of social media and the sharing economy is generating abundant unstructured image and video data. Computer vision techniques can derive rich insights from unstructured data and can inform recommendations for increasing profits and consumer utility—if only the... View Details
    Keywords: Transparency; Marketing Research; Algorithmic Bias; AI and Machine Learning; Marketing
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    • January–February 2021
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    Between Home and Work: Commuting as an Opportunity for Role Transitions

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia Lee Cunningham, Bradley Staats, Francesca Gino and Jochen I. Menges
    Across the globe, every workday people commute an average of 38 minutes each way, yet surprisingly little research has examined the implications of this daily routine for work-related outcomes. Integrating theories of boundary work, self-control, and work-family... View Details
    Keywords: Commuting; Boundary Work; Self-control; Work-family Conflict; Prospection; Transition
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    • 25 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

    competition, but because they are are cheaper and easier to use. In The Innovative University, Christensen and Henry J. Eyring take the idea of disruptive innovation to the field of higher education, where new online institutions and... View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
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    field of negotiation, shows you how to negotiate successfully today by adapting proven negotiation principles and strategies to the challenging new contexts you face—from negotiating across cultural and political differences to trying to... View Details
    • 25 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

    away from certain professions: They lack confidence in their ability to compete in fields that men are stereotypically believed to perform more strongly in, such as science, math, and technology. Women are also more reluctant to share... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 06 Mar 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

    School: 1962-2012," the case delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10 years from now, when his young... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

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      PhD Programs - Doctoral

      PhD Programs The start of your PhD program launches your journey to a career in business academia. Students in our PhD programs are encouraged from day one to think of this experience as their first job in business academia—a training... View Details
      • June 23, 2021
      • Article

      Research: When A/B Testing Doesn't Tell You the Whole Story

      By: Eva Ascarza
      When it comes to churn prevention, marketers traditionally start by identifying which customers are most likely to churn, and then running A/B tests to determine whether a proposed retention intervention will be effective at retaining those high-risk customers. While... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Retention; Churn; Targeting; Market Research; Marketing; Investment Return; Customers; Retention; Research
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      Inviting Consumers to Downsize Fast-Food Portions Significantly Reduces Calorie Consumption

      By: Janet Schwartz, Jason Riis, Brian Elbel and Dan Ariely
      Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we tested an alternative approach: activating consumers' self-control by having servers ask... View Details
      Keywords: Food; Labels; Consumer Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      • 13 Apr 2012
      • HBS Seminar

      Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science and Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management

      • 15 Mar 2019
      • Blog Post

      PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

      while you are in school, or via study abroad). There are multiple ways to think about them: using a series of opportunities to build your skills and experience towards pivoting into a full-time job that is difficult to get, taking... View Details
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      By: Ashley V. Whillans
      Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
      • 15 Sep 2015
      • First Look

      September 15, 2015

      decision support tool for Rue La La's daily use. We conduct a field experiment and find that sales do not decrease due to implementing tool recommended price increases for medium and high price point... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 21 Aug 2015
      • Blog Post

      My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

      Fellowship: This fellowship is specifically for first year joint degree students at HKS and HBS. -Zuckerman Fellowship: This fellowship equips people from the fields of medicine, law, and business to provide leadership for the common good... View Details
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      The Psychology of Conversation

      By: Alison Wood Brooks

      Conversation is a profound part of the human experience. To share our ideas, thoughts, and feelings with each other, we converse face to face and remotely—via phone, email, text message, online comment boards, and in contracts. Conversations form the bedrock of our... View Details