attitudes - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity, joy, trust, and productivity... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

but which is pronounced “Do It”—captures the can-do attitude of the people who work here. They spend every day building online tools that are beautiful, welcoming, and highly useful to the citizens of Boston. Want to rewrite a webpage... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

10 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Coming Out at Business School

positive attitude towards gay people – even our extended family in Moscow supports anti-LGBT measures. Immigrant families like mine typically need to conform and adapt to survive in a new society, so I didn’t make waves, especially with... View Details

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Commencement 2011 Address | About

self-confidence is the one thing your classmates weren ’ t lacking when they came to HBS. But the self-confidence I refer to is of a different kind: it ’ s the “ can do ” attitude that comes from knowing you have the skills, tools, and... View Details

08 Apr 2021
News

Real Talk

us to reduce negative attitudes of the identity group(s) to which the individual belongs.” But sharing is one thing. Couple that with true vulnerability and you’re on to something important, say Harmeling and Henderson. Harmeling points... View Details

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

the book is also a contribution to thinking about competitiveness in general. In one part of the book, you and your coauthors write: "What really ails Japan has to do with the nation's deeply ingrained attitudes toward... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

September 2023
Article

Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms

By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim

Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that the strength of employee beliefs related to purpose is weaker in public companies. Among public companies, those beliefs are stronger for... View Details

Keywords: Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Culture; Corporate Culture; Public And Private Organizations; Hedge Fund; Executive Pay; Corporate Governance; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Employees; Attitudes; Executive Compensation; Ownership

04 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 4

markets; however we find significant correlations between kidney market disapproval and attitudes reflecting disapproval towards certain transactions—including both other body markets and market encroachment into traditionally non-market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

against price gouging and laws regulating the terms of mortgages may have support because consumers recognize that many people do not optimize their consumption effectively and because they are angry at firms that take advantage of this. These View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

willingness to invest, commit, work hard, persist and persevere, making confidence a highly desirable trait. There are four levels of confidence, with each level building on the prior one: Self-confidence: This is what most people associate with confidence. This is a... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

you are able to! A scrappy and entrepreneurial attitude is a must in order to succeed and thrive these days.” Tucker: “Venture capital as a career is highly dependent on so many factors. What stage do you invest? What geography? What... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

monolithic view of business and didn't understand the functions of marketing, say, or finance,” he says. “I became fascinated by it all and found that many of my prejudices were wrong. I also found that businesspeople and students were gung-ho, can-do folks whose View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

diversity training programs aimed at attitudes are less effective than putting men and women together to accomplish tasks, which makes both competence and compatibility salient. FOSO is reasonable for some women in circumstances where... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

owner’s attitude toward the organizations they inhabit and increasingly lead? Will they adopt policies that encourage others to become owners or, as in the case of some of Wells Fargo’s leaders, renters? Are we becoming a nation of job... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

science of nutrition began to develop in the 1890s; the presence of vitamins in food and the relationship between diet and disease are twentieth-century discoveries. But as he and his partner expanded their business in the early 1870s, Heinz made an important strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

01 Feb 2002
News

Karen Tumulty Reports on America

has somewhat restrained politicking-as-usual in Washington. Out in the rest of America, however, based on polling results and last fall's elections, Tumulty is able to discern some changing attitudes in the aftermath of September's... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2003
News

Books

today’s China,” Huang observes. That attitude must give way to “an ideological commitment to private property rights” and to the institutional reforms that would necessarily follow. That development seems more likely, he believes, after... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA

emergency-response monitoring that enables seniors 65+ to live more independently. Early on, the students learned that in Argentina, the attitudes of young people towards seniors were often negative and that many seniors led very solitary... View Details

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

the table. They also tend to be maximizers—a term put forth by Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, meaning they are always driving to win the best deal and rarely satisfied no matter how much they get. That attitude is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

probably exceed their job descriptions. Not only is this attitude demoralizing for employees, but it discourages collaboration and idea sharing as well. For example, "there was one CEO of a company in the IT industry who kept... View Details