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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
and that this difference in construal partly underlies future lock-in. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory Policies in Single-stage Inventory Systems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
forward-looking investment is just what the country’s presence in Milan is designed to elicit. “The perception has been that Colombia is a dangerous country,” he notes, “but we are turning the page. We’re getting ready to play a huge role... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
agencies such as the USDA is to protect public health and safety; based on previous economic theory, however, Hiatt started with a different assumption—the primary goal of an agency is really to protect its own legitimacy. After all, it's the View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
Our Favorite Stories of 2020
contracted the virus) describes that mind-altering experience and how it changed his perception of the current healthcare system. Keeping the Beat Musician-activist Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) describes the ups and downs of making music under... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
My Misperceptions about HBS
here. I'll never forget the moment that my perceptions of HBS turned around: my interview day. I expected most of the people I met to be quite pretentious and arrogant—to be sizing up each others' chances of getting accepted. However, I... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
these examples that can be applied to all fields. The NFL continues to be a source of insights for managers and organizations in all fields. Recently, for example, there is a perception among observers that the NFL is going younger with... View Details
- November 1982
- Article
The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique
By: T. M. Amabile
States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details
Amabile, T. M. "The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 43, no. 5 (November 1982): 997–1013.
- 17 Mar 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
From Sweetheart to Scapegoat: Brand Selfie-Taking Shapes Consumer Behavior
- 2024
- Working Paper
Modest Victims: Victims Who Decline to Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen As Morally Virtuous
By: Nathan Dhaliwal, Jillian J. Jordan and Pat Barclay
What do people think of victims who conceal their victimhood? We propose that the decision to not broadcast that one has been victimized serves as a costly act of modesty—in doing so, one is potentially forgoing social support and compensation from one’s community. We... View Details
Dhaliwal, Nathan, Jillian J. Jordan, and Pat Barclay. "Modest Victims: Victims Who Decline to Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen As Morally Virtuous." Working Paper, August 2024.
- 2022
- Article
Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment
By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of... View Details
Keywords: Time; Subjective Well Being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Well-being; Money; Perception; Kenya
Whillans, A.V., and Colin West. "Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment." Art. 719. Scientific Reports 12 (2022).
- August 2016
- Article
The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences
By: Kate Barasz, Tami Kim and Leslie K. John
Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for example, enjoying both rustic lake vacations and chic city vacations or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the... View Details
Keywords: Perceived Similarity; Prediction Error; Preference Prediction; Self-other Difference; Social Inference; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Forecasting and Prediction
Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie K. John. "The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 53, no. 4 (August 2016): 597–607.
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
’95), board committees focused on four areas of interest to both alumni and the School: Brand Perception — offered the alumni perspective on the branding strategy being developed by Brian Kenny, the School’s chief marketing and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
ROM’s 13 million objects, from a bust of Cleopatra VII to Chinese Yuan dynasty murals to Benjamin West’s The Death of General Wolfe. Art, he says, can nudge viewers toward perceptions that are invaluable to critical thinking. For example,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
management practice Sandra Sucher, who teaches a section of the course. “It’s all about engaging the ‘other,’ and leaders can be notoriously poor at separating out their own perception from the way that other people might see things.”... View Details
- July 2019
- Article
The Gravitational Pull of Expressing Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Christopher To, Shira Agasi, Stéphane Côté and Adam D. Galinsky
Prior research attributes the positive effects of passion on professional success to intrapersonal characteristics. We propose that interpersonal processes are also critical because observers confer status on and support those who express passion. These interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Admiration; Support; Emotions; Communication; Perception; Status and Position; Success; Situation or Environment; Competition
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Christopher To, Shira Agasi, Stéphane Côté, and Adam D. Galinsky. "The Gravitational Pull of Expressing Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 153 (July 2019): 41–62.
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
War II to the post-war era, U.S. Steel public relations campaigns responded to the public’s evolving perceptions of large corporations in regard to anti-trust issues, labor activism, wartime duty, profit margins, and the free enterprise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
in their products and communication, especially as part of a transformation. Enter Barbie, which had been grappling throughout the 2000s with softer sales as a result of perceptions of problematic beauty standards and gender stereotypes.... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice
By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Giacomo Lanzani and Andrei Shleifer
We present a theory of decisions in which attention to the features of choice options is determined by the decision maker's categorization of the current choice problem in a set of problems she solved in the past. Categorization depends on goal-relevant as well as... View Details
Bordalo, Pedro, Nicola Gennaioli, Giacomo Lanzani, and Andrei Shleifer. "A Cognitive Theory of Reasoning and Choice." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33466, February 2025.
- March 2025
- Article
Boomerasking: Answering Your Own Questions
By: Alison Wood Brooks and Michael Yeomans
Humans spend much of their lives in conversation, where they tend to hold many simultaneous motives. We examine two fundamental desires: to be responsive to a partner and to disclose about oneself. We introduce one pervasive way people attempt to reconcile these... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood, and Michael Yeomans. "Boomerasking: Answering Your Own Questions." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154, no. 3 (March 2025): 864–893.
- June 2023
- Article
Amplification of Emotion on Social Media
By: Amit Goldenberg and Robb Willer
Why do expressions of emotion seem so heightened on social media? Brady et al. argue that extreme moral outrage on social media is not only driven by the producers and sharers of emotional expressions, but also by systematic biases in the way people that perceive moral... View Details
Goldenberg, Amit, and Robb Willer. "Amplification of Emotion on Social Media." Nature Human Behaviour 7, no. 6 (June 2023): 845–846.