Action Perception - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

Your new boss will have more impact than anyone else over whether you succeed or fail. Your boss establishes benchmarks for your success, interprets your actions for other key players, and controls resources you need. Building a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

into play, and people are unable to see the ethical implications of their actions because their desire to win gets in the way. The end result is deception. In business, with dollars at stake, many people will interpret situations in ways... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

leader. This led us to delve more deeply into the different types of leader behaviors that appeared, and to look at how those specific behaviors influenced people's perceptions of leader support and, ultimately, their creativity. Q: You... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

which uniquely explain the market-wide price reaction that followed the 2017 J.Crew restructuring, a high-profile use of such contractual elements. See Victoria’s other research here and Boris’ other research here . More Info Financial Market Risk View Details

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

definitions. They were applied in his 2003 paper on U.S. regions (Porter, 2003) and in subsequent research papers with other scholars that fundamentally changed the perception of clusters in the U.S. policy community (Delgado, Porter,... View Details

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

so that alternative actions could be arrayed according to their attractiveness, expressed in quantitative terms. Recently, brain-scan technology has enabled researchers to associate choice and decision-making with various parts of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First

Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

On a larger scale, the U.S. Army is known for conducting After Action Reviews that enable participants to analyze, discuss, and learn from both the successes and failures of a variety of military initiatives. Similarly, hospitals use... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

perceptions and impede your or others’ ability to earn people’s trust Identify which influence styles will most benefit specific situations Complete the Influence Style Exercise to identify which influence styles and behaviors you use... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

One, obviously, is the antitrust problem that has become a big issue in the current US elections. We argue that once these firms become dominant, many have engaged in bullying behavior. Some of these actions were perfectly legal when the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

Above: Sid Misra (MBA 2013) cofounder, Perceptive Automata (Len Rubenstein; courtesy of Perceptive Automata) Amid the hubbub of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

research. Key concepts include: Employees' perceptions of team leader support are more positive when the leader gives timely feedback; supports team member's actions and decisions; recognizes good work... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

from the tragedy? For one, small decisions have big consequences. Key concepts include: Words and actions by leadership shape perceptions and beliefs of organization members. Leaders need to hold a delicate... View Details

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

up and reveals the actual nature of being when one is being a leader and opens up and reveals the source of one's actions when exercising leadership. And ontology's associated phenomenological methodology (explained in [2] below) provides... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

in society must step into the vacuum” When elected officials don't own this crucial responsibility, other leaders in society must step into the vacuum. Why not business? Often depicted as greedy and shortsighted, consumed with this quarter's profits and blind to the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

wildly inaccurate, the psychology of perception systematically leads negotiators to major errors. Self-Serving Role Bias. People tend unconsciously to interpret information pertaining to their own side in a strongly self-serving way. The... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

government are at their lowest ever," says Buell. "There is a danger that that disgust can lead to disengagement. Showing the ways in which government materially affects people's lives through its actions has the potential to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

bolster their bargaining power, and channeling the flow of the process through time. They understand that actions taken away from the negotiating table can be as important as what goes on at the table, if not more so.1 Specifically,... View Details