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07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

that values are essentially identical at every company and irrelevant to performance. Others would assert that values should not change. Was it the right time to reassess the company's values? How could Tan Caktiong persuade skeptics that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2011
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behave dishonestly (Study 1), and this relationship was mediated by impaired moral awareness (Study 2). Unlike individuals with moderate or low moral identity, individuals high in moral identity did not cheat more when they were depleted... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

and more mature economies. He sold off many other unrelated businesses to successfully focus on this one, with remarkable success until very recently. Having forged an identity that defines strategy and the company's animating beliefs and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

attention, overconfidence, and identity commitments-that affected the firm's ability to learn, attend to, reflect on, and dynamically respond to information and changes in its environment. Our longitudinal research reveals a downside of... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

17 Dec 2013
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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 out-group threat change the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

business-unit managers choose local measures that influence, but are not necessarily identical to the corporate scorecard measures. The most remarkable transformations and partnerships occur in support functions and shared services, such... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

groups of people lead to individuals being judged by external characteristics such as gender, race, and national origin rather than the authentic person within. As with many complex issues, business leaders must explore these foundational issues of View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have implications for national statistical offices, researchers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Yet, why do gray zones persist and why are they unlikely to disappear? In Moral Gray Zones, Michel Anteby shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers' identity and self-esteem while... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

rise, which afforded numerous growth opportunities such as entering the broader identity management space, creating new products to protect critical infrastructure, and securing the burgeoning world of the Internet of Things (IoT). This... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

April 2024
Case

Michelin in Motion: Putting Purpose to Work

By: Hubert Joly, Nitin Nohria and Emilie Billaud

When he became CEO, facing limited growth prospects, a low valuation, and therefore a stagnating share price, Menegaux and his team launched a set of initiatives to reposition Michelin. These included (1) articulating a clear purpose (“We care about giving people a... View Details

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July 2020
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Girls Who Code

By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details

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20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

respect of his or her organization and toggled always back and forth between “what does this mean for the trajectory and the integrity and the character and the identity and the stability of my organization?” and “how is that related to... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

fieldworkers and community members make strategic use of the cultural understandings, norms, and identities that govern family, gender, and caste relations to build new community-based networks that promote the rights of children. Yet... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

systems but also the human process of ego suppression. This would be the second time his smaller airline has merged with (taken over, some would say) a larger one, and the second time he has let go of the identity of the enterprise he... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

United States can try to ensure good government, but it backs down on that commitment because the flip side of Panama being important is that Panama can also interfere with the functioning of the canal." An identical situation is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

the identity of a Yahoo! user, and subsequent actions by the firm to respond to negative publicity and congressional inquiry. The case raises broad questions about the challenge of complying with domestic law when operating in states that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

There’s something curious about the labor force in the United States. Identical jobs and industries have become unionized in some states while remaining nonunionized in others. Unionization levels vary greatly from state to state. As of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Michelin in Motion: Putting Purpose to Work

Girls Who Code

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

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Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

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The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

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