cognition - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

Digital Photography Company' Author:Mary Tripsas Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Organizations often experience difficulty making technological transitions. Large bodies of research have examined the behavioral, social, and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

businesses, made acquisitions in digital innovation and cloud computing, formed partnerships with former competitors such as Apple and tech startups, and invested in internally developed cognitive computing/AI platform Watson, a big bet... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

enhanced creativity and reduced intergroup bias. In contrast, the present work uncovers a potential downside of foreign experiences: increased immoral behavior. We propose that broad foreign experiences (i.e., experiences in multiple foreign countries) foster not only... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

right now, but you would claim that I would leave this and go back to my mother country in a minute the instant Fidel Castro, that SOB, dies. And so I think that there was a lot of cognitive dissonance about that. There were people who... View Details

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

dilemmas-challenging decisions that feature tradeoffs between competing and seemingly incompatible values. Moral insight consists of discovering solutions that move beyond selecting one conflicting ethical option over another. Moral insight encompasses both a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2011
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shifts from the corporate team to lower organizational levels when the new business initiative reaches economic and cognitive legitimacy. We use these insights to revise the organizational ambidexterity concept, considering the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

relevant work is scattered across multiple fields. This paper presents a unified picture of mirroring in terms of theory, evidence, and exceptions. First, we formally define mirroring and argue that it is an approach to technical problem solving that conserves scarce... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in emerging markets? One view argues that limited... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

absent in the “2020-2021 Class of Lift Outs.” The lack of cultural integration may even be a short-term plus, freeing new recruits to devote their energies entirely to the tasks at hand, without the cognitive burden and social stress of... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

these? Plan-making, a tool that leverages research on memory and cognition as well as mechanical benefits of scheduling, is one underappreciated solution. We review experiments showing that forming specific, concrete plans increases... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

to something big. After a second field study, Solomon and Hillerstrom launched NeuroPhage. In tests on mice, the drug they developed improved both memory and cognitive abilities. “We believe it can identify harmful aggregates in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

04 Dec 2012
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are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Management Proceedings Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories of Change Recipients in Global Organizations By: Reiche, B.S., T.B. Neeley, and N. Overmeyer Abstract—Research rarely addresses how change recipients respond to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

lengths—60, 30, and 10 seconds—and in 10-second silent videos and 10-second audio clips. We find that perceptions of collective properties of groups, including cohesion, affective trust, and cognitive trust partially mediate perceivers’... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

verdicts, increasing the probability of a favorable outcome. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54560 Motivated Errors By: Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler Abstract—Behavioral biases that cause errors in decision-making are... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

the introduction of a new dominant design. Drawing on the case of mechanical watchmaking, it reveals how technology reemergence is a decidedly cognitive process, unfolding in two phases: a first phase marked by a redefinition of the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online

Exercises During project weeks, apply course frameworks to an innovation problem of your choosing or provided scenario Reframe problems to identify new pain points and solutions Divide an existing product, service, model, or strategy into components and manipulate them... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

ensure that the game continues to thrive. With research (some being financed by the NFL) and understanding still in their early stages, the issue of concussions in football has become a paramount concern, with recent findings suggesting that traumatic brain injuries... View Details

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

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

importance of “oral language” as an important managerial cognitive capability, we code the topics and sentiments expressed in the text of what the CEOs say (verbal language) and separately code the facial expressions of the CEOs... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
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Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein

Following a contentious presidential race, Donald Trump’s 2016 election destabilized America’s status quo. Academics, journalists, politicians and the public at large examined why Trump had won. Many Americans, inside and outside the government, asserted that a... View Details