attitudes - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

company is that when we hire people, we always hire for attitude. We don’t hire for skills. We hire for attitude because we feel skills can be taught and trained. But if you have the wrong attitude, no matter how skillful you are, you’re... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

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

August 1997 (Revised December 1997)
Case

Harassment at Work?

By: Lynn S. Paine and Dale Coxe

Presents three scenarios involving behavior that could arguably be called sexual harassment. The first scenario is set in a medical supply company in an unnamed emerging market region. The second is set in a New York-based securities firm. The third is set in a U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Groups and Teams; Crime and Corruption; Attitudes; Behavior; Labor and Management Relations; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY); United States

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25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

following year. In Chasing Stars, Groysberg explains the importance of having an integration strategy, whether a star is joining a new baseball team or a new team of financial analysts. "Even stars need time to adjust to new settings, and successful integration... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

26 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 26

Knowledge Management at Danone (B) Amy C. Edmondson, Ruth Dittrich, and Daniela BeyersdorferHarvard Business School Supplement 611-079 The (B) case gives an update on the development of knowledge management at Danone two years after the (A) case: The Networking View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Artist Support | Baker Library

have real human and historic value. Ansel Adams The intersection of photography and art at Polaroid reflected changing attitudes toward photography within the broader academic and museum community. In his discussions with Kennedy, Land... View Details

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

volume reflects exciting new work by political psychologists to understand the psychological processes underlying Americans’ political thinking and action. In 13 chapters, world-class scholars present new in-depth work exploring public opinion, social movements, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

attitudes toward these matters may help explain the reasoned responses to this month's questions, responses surprisingly devoid of emotion. Granted, the emphasis of the column was on how the Government should act, not whether. But... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

success of this product. He became inexorably more tied to the past as he aged. As late as 1943, he was talking about returning to the Model T. Thanks to this attitude his company almost collapsed. What lessons can we learn from these... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

explored as well as to clarify my own attitudes toward fracking and its role towards any global solution. We must have a global solution—a set of new choices that change plans not only in the West but also in China and India—or we will... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

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Commencement 2013 Address | About

don’t know all the answers. That attitude is at the heart of the second personal characteristic I will ask you to consider today: ADAPTABILITY. During spring break, while many of you took the chance to travel, I too took a trip of my own... 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

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

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Jewish American Heritage Month | Baker Library

organizations who list Jewish People as a population they serve. Browse the Encyclopedia of Associations to locate Jewish American-affiliated organizations, such as professional societies and trade associations. Use Statista's Consumer Insights Tool to understand the... View Details

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

06 Dec 2016
First Look

December 6, 2016

rate. In addition, the real rate forecasts returns on the low-minus-high volatility portfolio, though it appears unrelated with measures of the quantity of risk. Our results suggest that precautionary savings motives, and thus the real rate, are driven by time-varying... View Details