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    First Impressions: The Science of Meeting People

    A strong handshake and assertive greeting may not be the best way to make a good first impression. New research suggests that people respond more positively to someone who comes across as trustworthy rather than confident.

    Social psychologist Amy... View Details
    • 28 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

    competition.” The HBS team’s second-place finish underscores the program’s ability to equip students to become capable impact investors. Through participating in MIINT, business students can learn about mission-driven companies, make... View Details
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    I study how people collaborate with each other as they define, change, and solve problems while working on creativity and innovation projects in organizations.

    Conference Proceedings:
    Cromwell, J. & Gardner, H. 2017. High-stakes innovation: When... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Startups; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Teams; Team Process
    • June 2011
    • Article

    Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work

    By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
    This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details
    Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

    By: Malcolm S. Salter
    In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • 01 Jun 2012
    • News

    Faculty Books

    groups don’t learn naturally—because of interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding—Edmondson shows how to overcome these barriers. She explains how collaborative... View Details
    Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance

      William C. Kirby

      William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; wine
      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      ~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation

      By: Matthew Weinzierl
      Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Framework; Policy; Taxation; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; United States
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      • 2022
      • Conference Presentation

      Towards the Unification and Robustness of Post hoc Explanation Methods

      By: Sushant Agarwal, Shahin Jabbari, Chirag Agarwal, Sohini Upadhyay, Steven Wu and Himabindu Lakkaraju
      As machine learning black boxes are increasingly being deployed in critical domains such as healthcare and criminal justice, there has been a growing emphasis on developing techniques for explaining these black boxes in a post hoc manner. In this work, we analyze two... View Details
      Keywords: AI and Machine Learning
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      • 16 May 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

      promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as owners of the... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
      • February 2016
      • Article

      Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate

      By: Tsedal Neeley and Tracy Dumas
      Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain—an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally valued characteristics. We build theory... View Details
      Keywords: Status and Position; Equality and Inequality; Spoken Communication; Organizations; Japan; United States
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      • 03 Jun 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: June 3

      and labor markets but find no evidence that product market efficiency affects the relative value of diversification. These results provide support for the theory of internal capital markets that argues that internal capital allocation... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      My research is at the intersection of organizational strategy, global sustainability governance, and social change. It explores the diffusion of sustainability standards to non-traditional sectors (e.g. jewelry, cannabis, plastics, pets) and the relationship between... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Extractive Industries; Luxury; Gold; Institutional Change; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Hybrid Organizations; Governance; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pollution and Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Diversification; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Tourism Industry; Africa; Latin America; Europe
      • 30 Mar 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

      about how quickly to expect responses and learn to practice patience, he says. “If you post a message in Slack, trust that people will be responsible and come to it when they can,” he says. “It doesn’t hurt to throw your question in the... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

        Elisabeth C. Paulson

        Elisabeth Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first year course on Technology and Operations Management in the required curriculum.
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        Keywords: agriculture; federal government; state government; grocery; nonprofit industry

          Ranjay Gulati

          Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. His pathbreaking research, which focuses on unlocking organizational and unleashing... View Details

          Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
          • 21 Aug 2020
          • Blog Post

          Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

          (JD/MBA 2021) and Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021), co-presidents of the JD/MBA Association, offer their perspectives on the program and what they have learned about the HLS/HBS joint degree. It’s a four-year program that gives you the full... View Details
          • November–December 2020
          • Article

          Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case

          By: Robin Ely and David A. Thomas
          Leaders may mean well when they tout the economic payoffs of hiring more women and people of color, but there is no research support for the notion that diversifying the workforce automatically improves a company’s performance. This article critiques the popular... View Details
          Keywords: Diversity; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Change; Trust
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          • February 2017
          • Module Note

          Leading Global Teams

          By: Tsedal Neeley
          This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global teams that must work together across national boundaries and toward a common goal. Students will learn to diagnose the challenges that global teams often face as well as strategies that... View Details
          Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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          • 02 Nov 2016
          • Blog Post

          The Benefits of a Residential Campus

          residential campus, with the idea that living, studying, and socializing together only increases the opportunities for learning. About 80% of the student body chooses to live on campus, and it really contributes to the close-knit feel of... View Details