Attributions - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

unconscious thought as a goal-dependent, deliberative process in the absence of conscious attention. Most people attribute a lot of their actions to a conscious process, but there are scores of processes that operate unconsciously.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this information with buyers, focusing on attributes of the buyers seeking this information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

to determine what was best for the technology, the process has become increasingly pressurized and competitive - a trend Lerner attributes to industry response to success of companies like Qualcomm in the licensing market. (The company's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

overloading forces better time management " KHA attributed part of the problem to the perception that "We love a 'hard worker,'" rewarding effort and time spent at work as much or more than results. Yet another concern,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

counter-intuitive product development and marketing efforts—products, for example, that provide breakthroughs by offering less for much less or even more for much less, but products that meet needs that most of us can't even imagine. She describes how, by testing... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings.... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

leaders who are considered for teaching appointments actually qualify. He attributes this mainly to issues with “status and ego.” In my experience, the problem often was the inability to listen to what MBA students were really saying. I... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

to see if their explanations matched their actions; and traced the performance of the companies they invested in. As she described in a previous paper published in Administrative Science Quarterly, decisions attributed to gut feel were... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

may not lead us to the greatest common good ... without government action(s).... These might take the form of incentives." Richard Eckel expanded on this idea, saying that "To suggest that for-profits embody any form of moral restraints is to infer an View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

stretches a worker in a new direction. Framing and bluffing. "This is one of the most creative attributes for obtaining stretchwork," O'Mahony notes. "People who are good at presenting their prior experience in a way that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

attributes that you care about; and what you are trying to do with the dataset.” James Mickens Read the Transcript To many, data is assumed to be value neutral . It’s interpreted as the purest, logical representation of perceivable... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

who has raised $12 million for DZD, attributes the very existence of the company to the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem and is happy to share his experience with other founders. “When we started the company, we asked ourselves whether... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2005
News

Marked Managers

Your personal accountability is laid on the line, and the anxiety level is likely to be quite high, as is the amount of social reinforcement for doing well. How much of imprinting can be attributed to the relationships that are formed... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically identify several factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this information with buyers, focusing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

an unanswered question as to what extent the important attributes of performance are a part of the firm's organizational capital or embodied in the human capital of the people inside the firm. We examine the performance at the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

and team learning, in organizational behavior, and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new product development teams. Building on prior work, we summarize the organizational benefits of NPD teams, and identify five View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

the executive participants. Although circulation of its flagship Harvard Business Review (HBR) declined in fiscal 2024, HBP remained the School’s largest single revenue component at $304 million, or 28 percent of total revenues. This was 2 percent below our forecast,... View Details

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

be quickly forgotten. ©iStock.com/Yuri_Arcurs The $2.99 app, available on iTunes, starts with a self-assessment. Users rate themselves on several attributes, such as how much they assert their own needs versus understanding the motivations of others. Rather than let... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

hobbies, long dinners, drinks with friends, etc., I wonder how much of this can be attributed to older generations valuing something we do not. My colleagues and I are clear that we're not interested in working evenings and weekends, even... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

diverse industries, are ubiquitous in emerging markets. Groups around the world share certain attributes but also vary substantially in structure, ownership, and other dimensions. This paper proposes a business group taxonomy, which is... View Details