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01 Oct 2021
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Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations

Brian Ratajczak (MBA 2022) was nervous, too. “If you are talking about finance, and someone says something you disagree with, there’s probably not going to be a lot of emotions stirred up,” says Ratajczak, a white man from Calabasas,... View Details

July 2023
Article

So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov

With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by... View Details

Keywords: Online Dating; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Gender; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks

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July 2019
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The Gravitational Pull of Expressing Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Christopher To, Shira Agasi, Stéphane Côté and Adam D. Galinsky

Prior research attributes the positive effects of passion on professional success to intrapersonal characteristics. We propose that interpersonal processes are also critical because observers confer status on and support those who express passion. These interpersonal... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Admiration; Support; Emotions; Communication; Perception; Status and Position; Success; Situation or Environment; Competition

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21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
Conference Presentation

Visual Attention to Power Posers: People Avert their Gaze from Nonverbal Displays of Power

By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf

Existing literature suggests that people visually attend more to powerful/high-status people. However, previous studies manipulated target power/status via the target’s role (e.g., CEO or judge vs. mechanic or fry cook) or clothing (e.g., business suit vs. sweat suit).... View Details

Keywords: Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Rank and Position; Emotions; Power and Influence

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Maurice Taylor

regulations space. Some people give it short shrift, but for me, it’s a passion. What are the motivations and fears of different actors? Everyone says they’re sophisticated investors, but at the end of the day, they have the same emotions... View Details

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

counterproductive response in many of us: “If the car is spinning out of control, it grips our jugular of emotion and makes this negative feeling course through our veins. We feel deflated and victimized,” he said. “We look in the mirror... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Sep 2016
News

The Real Meaning of Love

and her death was avoidable. If she and her friends and her family had had any information about the warning signs of an abusive relationship and what the earliest phases look like, steps could have been taken to save her life. “One Love is focused on educating young... View Details

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

mask concept explains most if not all of mankind's woes of today." Those arguing a middle ground put forth some interesting suggestions, such as Leamon Duncan's: " sometimes leaders must mask feelings and emotions in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations

diversity and inclusion. Brian Ratajczak (MBA 2022) was a little nervous, too. “If you are talking about finance, and someone says something you disagree with, there’s probably not going to be a lot of emotions stirred up,” says... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

Portrait Project

Kishan Madamala

something. Emotions became fleeting. I trusted logic and fact instead. I hugged that lawn mower out of instinct. It was naïve and uncalculated. Yet there was a certain truth to that gut feeling. My mission is to get back to that place.... View Details

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Gordon C. Liao

seeing black, white, red and brown as just colors but culture and re-route the traditional hbs highway that makes success for some of us most likely i want to love with a purpose and fall into it every day of my existence but also make honest mistakes and experience... View Details

September 2019
Exercise

Difficult Conversations (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

The exercises can be used as a follow-up to the Yesware (A) case (#816-039), or in conjunction with any case that involves replacing a founding team member (and/or providing feedback to a top executive). This is a role-playing exercise, and has been carried out in the... View Details

Keywords: Firing; Feedback; Founders; Culture; Values; Neuroscience; Business Startups; Organizational Culture; Resignation and Termination; Communication; Emotions; Trust; Human Resources; Entrepreneurship

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26 Sep 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

prior, arriving here with no contacts and no English, ready to start a new life. Seeing her would have been an emotional experience no matter what, but having been supported through chemo for the prior few months, arriving together on the... View Details

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

To Buy Happiness, Spend Money on Other People

Now, Consume Later (delayed consumption leads to increased enjoyment); and Invest in Others (spending money on other people makes us happier than spending it on ourselves). Recently we featured a video illustrating the emotional benefits... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

at any time. Researchers collaborating with Teixeira then measured the participants' emotional responses with a combination of eye-tracking technology and facial expression analysis software. Click to watch. The data showed that evoking... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

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Brand (In)fidelity: When Flirting with the Competition Strengthens Brand Relationships

By: Irene Consiglio, Daniella Kupor, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton

We document the existence and consequences of brand flirting: a short-lived experience in which a consumer engages with and/or indulges in the alluring qualities of a brand without committing to it. We propose that brand flirting is exciting and that when consumers... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Brands and Branding; Emotions

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

for that very reason that she is cutting out intermediaries and may sacrifice some value (and possibly depress the value of other lesser Picassos) in the process: because she is intent on purging herself of painful emotional ties to that... View Details

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Astghik Poladyan

one beautiful concept: harmony. Many non-musicians perceive harmony as peace, but it is so much more. Harmony is combining notes simultaneously to create something beautiful, inspiring, powerful, rich, unique, emotional It is impossible... View Details

21 May 2021
News

See Us Unite for Change

be pieces offering solutions of what you can do to be an ally. In addition, you will laugh, you will dance for joy, you will cry. You will feel the emotion that is heartfelt from the performers about the love for our community and our... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

April 2011
Case

Daniel Kim's Dilemma (A)

By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred

Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Fairness; Corporate Accountability; Emotions; Behavior; Leadership Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Disclosure

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