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- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
employees who work very stressful jobs.” Technology-based therapy has certain advantages over other employee services, such as in-person counseling, the researchers say. Online programs allow employees to keep their identities... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Social Psychology Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal By: Aknin, Lara B., Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Justine Burns, Robert Biswas-Diener,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
policy solutions, a challenging proposition in a politically polarized environment. This paper focuses on how CEOs engage in the political process to encourage government policies that will foster sustainability transitions and address other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
socially appropriate than achieving overall equity. Furthermore, individuals care more about achieving equity in time than equity in money. Narrow bracketing of equity concerns and more inequity aversion in time than in money persist when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
should immediately reflect their priorities for their daily lives. Silverthorne: Given how ingrained group conflict is, is divisiveness and thus decline inevitable—or is there hope? Kanter: A classic social science experiment at a boys’... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness By: Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Across six field and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good and the 2009 Harvard Business Review article "Mergers That Stick." Investment bankers and lawyers still hold sway, and the regulators still must approve the merger of American... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces (Experiment 3). These experiments suggest that mind perception is a dynamic process in which relevant contextual information such as social identity and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
significant challenges. The case pays particular attention to the four men's evolving identities as musical artists and to the tradeoffs that have accompanied their fame and larger social commitments. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these proximate subsidiaries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment efforts on physical capital or improving social indicators. Both states faced constraints in the form of budget deficits, competition from other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative 31 MAR–01 APR 2016 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Aida Hurtado Aída Hurtado, a View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Metail Economy: 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution By Joel Bines (MBA 1999) McGraw-Hill Armed with computers, tablets, smartphones, and View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
the various actors. The note provides ample examples of countries and cities that have actively tried to shape their brand identity and further exposes students to recent trends and vehicles (such as social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these circumstances, forbidding hedgers’ access to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
regard to their preferences. Assignment was done in a manner where sorted and unsorted groups had identical distributions of raw problem-solving ability. We find a remarkably large effect of institutional preference-based sorting on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
management. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2400618 October 2014 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective How Purpose-based Companies Master Change for Sustainability: A Systemic Approach to Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace