Norms - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

the risk of making snap judgments about people based on the wrong clues. For example, research refutes the street wisdom that poor eye contact is a sign of deceit. Shyness, lack of confidence, and cultural norms can all explain an averted... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

companies set themselves apart and be distinctive? How can Japan innovate? How can the cultural forces and social norms that work against more advanced forms of competition be overcome? That's the challenge. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

changing beliefs and expectations (actions considered acceptable become unacceptable as social norms and values change), and weak internal coordination (actions by one group create expectations that another group cannot meet). To manage... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

norms and how teams will communicate, how they will work together, and how they will ensure psychological safety is established and maintained. It’s not as scary as it sounds; it’s usually a 90-minute or two-hour meeting where you are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

in contexts where gender diversity is viewed as “normatively” accepted. By normative acceptance, they mean a widespread cultural belief that gender diversity is important. In other words, beliefs about gender diversity create a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

Abstract—I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

down, it is likely that hybrid remote arrangements will become the norm at workplaces globally. It is important to design hybrid-remote work arrangements that also allow for geographic flexibility and work-from-anywhere. Additionally,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

this environment. What CEOs told us “Priorities have changed, personally and professionally. There can be no thought paralysis. What will the new norm look like and how do we adapt? I ask myself that on a daily basis.” “In order to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

disciplines which develop their own norms and conventions about interesting research questions and how to answer them. For several decades mainstream academic historians, especially those based in the United States, have devoted almost no... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

innovation and product development strategies. His latest research analyzes how open source norms of transparency, permeable access, and collaboration might work with scientists. What he and his coauthors discovered:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

that created a tone for much of corporate America throughout the 1990s. When that bubble burst, we suddenly discovered a lot had been hidden by the fact that everybody was doing well—nobody was being critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

in each other a desire for something more, something outside the bounds of what we could imagine for ourselves, by ourselves. Love, we learned, is not just a process of wanting one another or normative markers of happiness, but also... View Details

Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Social Change at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization and a PhD in Management from Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a better world by celebrating... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Leonard M. Harlan (MBA '61, DBA '65), president of Castle Harlan, Inc., who has been a guest lecturer in Poorvu's class several times over the years. Part of this understanding is learning how to make deals in a fragmented industry where nonstandard pricing is the... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

than using more explicit cosmetics. In Shanghai, two women shade themselves as they walk past an ad for a skin-lightening cream. Powered globally by marketing, media, and entertainment, commercial beauty ideals may challenge local cultural View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

with the responsibility to enforce rules may penalize transgressors more harshly when they are faced with a conflicting motivation to be lenient. Specifically, we test how transgressors are punished when it is their birthday: a day when social View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

Moreover, we find that relatively higher wages also promote social norms such that coworkers are less (more) likely to collude to steal inventory from their company when relative wages are higher (lower). Our research contributes to an... View Details