Status - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2008
News

No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey

Turk definitely staked a claim to the HBS campus. But a little aggression wasn’t enough to run afoul of state law that protects wild creatures from relocation just to soothe jangled human nerves. Alas, perhaps the celebrity status Turk... View Details

Keywords: Centennial; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=13257 Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness Authors:Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

status quo, at the expense of searching for (and investing in) the kinds of novel breakthrough ideas that originally propelled them to the top. Atari, Wang, Polaroid, DEC, the examples are so numerous it is actually harder to point to... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the grands crus classés of the Médoc By: Malter, Daniel Abstract—This paper addresses the recent debate about the causality of status effects and identifies the symbolic effect of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty Reflections on International Women's Day

RevitalizationFaculty Cochair "As long as we continue to figure out any acceptable way to maintain privilege and protect the status quo, organizations and the leaders within them will be sabotaging their own efforts. We are making small... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie

finite "pie" of the book's title. This adherence to the status quo often blocks out negotiations and tradeoffs that could benefit everyone. The authors suggest that what public policy needs — and what a democracy's citizens must insist on... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Abraham presents "Gender-Based Double Standards in Defining High Status: How Educational Status Shapes the Gender Pay Gap" (Flash Talk) Malissa Alinor presents "Just a Race Hire? The Effects of Competency Microaggressions on Workplace... View Details

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Partners & Families | MBA

partner status official by registering with SAS . Your student can help you access the form (they must log in), which also allows you to indicate your communication preferences. Housing There are several resources available to start an... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)

Address label: Born outside Cleveland, Ohio, Chen grew up in California and Texas before attending Emory University in Georgia, where she majored in business. “My three siblings live in New York now, and I’ll be working there this summer, so that feels closest to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Leah Fasten; climate finance; MBA; student life

24 Feb 2011
News

Show Time

An Oscar statue (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Academy Awards are coming up, that annual homage to movies and their place in popular culture. The festivities are also a reminder of entertainment’s importance as a mainstay of the U.S. economy and, for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

fired after their complaints have been lodged “confidentially.” Trust has suffered among employees, customers, and suppliers alike. This prompts the question of whether boards should hire compliance officers with independent status... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2015
News

Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

that states with the largest pension deficits and those with heavy unionization were most likely to want to keep the status quo—even when the public and financial experts pushed for the opposite. It makes sense: “The most likely scenario... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

are the average experience in PE partnerships, Ivashina says. In their working paper released in March, Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics within the Private Equity Partnership, she and Lerner found that a partner’s pay was often tied more to the person’s View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

March 2007
Article

Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

By: Julie Wulf

I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions

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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Leaders Peter Glick , Lawrence University BS at Work: How Benevolent Sexism Undermines Women and Justifies Backlash Amy Cuddy , Harvard Business School Punishment and Prescribed Overcompensation for “Deviant Moms”: How Race and Work View Details

2009
Article

Social Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and Emotions: A Causal Test of the Stereotype Content Model

By: P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy and S.T. Fiske

The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific cultural stereotypes and associated emotional prejudices (Fiske et al., 2002). No prior evidence at a societal level has manipulated both structural predictors and measured both... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Mathematical Methods; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Status and Position; Culture; Competition

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Leo Markel

U.S. granted us refugee status and we moved from the Soviet Union in 1991. Without this move and my family's toils, my prospects would have been very different. Recognizing that there are billions of people who can scarcely afford to... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Other Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government

01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards

are ostracized by directors enjoying the status quo, so there’s a social aspect inhibiting progress. That said, the culture will change. If directors do not raise self-standards of performance, shareholders, regulators, and the courts... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

to lose money or power should the status quo be overturned." What kind of money and power stands to be lost, and by whom? How did we get to this homogenized pricing of the present insurance system in the first place? A: Homogenized... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

trends. Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract We study adaptation to income and... View Details