Distrust - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

debt, asleep-at-the-wheel boards of directors, and multiple mega-bankruptcies. We have watched with disbelief the disintegration of a major accounting firm, the discrediting of an alarming number of CEOs, and the growth of a widespread View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

another, the need “to do extreme scenario planning and take out loans as precautions to boost the balance sheet.” One CEO mentioned that this was complicated by a distrust of government data on health and the economy, thus requiring... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

productive partnership: Business leaders tend to give themselves more credit for being informed about education than superintendents do. Rivkin notes that in the survey of superintendents, the qualitative comments section also showed a clear undercurrent of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Sep 2008
News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

rich” and a highly visible wealth gap could mean for political stability. In Latin America, they’re concerned that economic progress may not be fast enough nor redistribution of income sufficient to forestall more Chavez-type leaders. Many View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

Committee, where he raised more money than any other member, Weinberg launched a long series of relationships with occupants of the White House that would continue for more than thirty-five years. Almost everybody on Wall Street voted against FDR, and many View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

2018 Oxford University Press Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust By: Goldberg, Ray A. Abstract—The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

participating less, but also that they are distrustful of politicians. We thought that perhaps a way to fix this is to have politicians speak directly to voters.” In some 26,000 house visits, households were randomly assigned to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

market have damaged their credibility. This was discouraging for those investors who were hoping that Beijing was making its markets more free. A fake marketplace creates distrust and is counterproductive in the long term. This interview... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

of conflict. They recognize the potential for escalation in zero-sum thinking, mutual perceptions of vulnerability, a history of distrust or injury that has transformed perceptions, and cultural misunderstandings. They are also equipped... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

companies and entrepreneurs. Q: What sorts of hurdles remain? A: One challenge is general distrust in the approach. PRT is complicated—numerous small vehicles rather than a few large vehicles, computer control in place of drivers.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

always done. And when an organization has had a succession of leaders, resistance to change is even stronger. A legacy of disappointment and distrust creates an environment in which employees automatically condemn the next turnaround... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

far less open about revealing information about their activities. In many cases, it is extraordinarily difficult to find information about firms which are opaque to outsiders. In both countries, there is a particular distrust between the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

extraordinary effort by a very large and experienced global corporation to survive the "era of confrontation" which deterred most other foreign firms, and which has left behind a legacy of distrust which helps to explain the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

consumer distrust of domestic infant formula brands that still pervaded China in 2016. Foreign brands, priced at a substantial premium, were strongly preferred by consumers who could afford them. The field of domestic infant formula... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

actions. Although nonnative speakers shared a common attitude of resentment and distrust toward their native English-speaking co-workers, their behavioral responses-assertion, inhibition, or learning-to encounters with native speakers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

later in 2007, Wyoff faced market pressure to again seek a joint venture with China-LuQuan on two other types of products. Both parties had to overcome past distrust to work things out on a series of strategic issues: investment, product... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

some 100 countries—recently spoke of "the climate of distrust surrounding...big business," and the fear that "such concentrated power is unconstrained." To restore trust, he said, "companies have to demonstrate... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

distrust the motivations of business representatives or lobbyists who seek to influence legislation and regulation. “Recovering the US business community’s voice in the legislative and regulative process will require a new approach. ” Why... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything. A seventh book is set to drop this fall, and an eighth—based on his popular SXSW talk, “Building Trust in Distrustful Times”—is in the works. His 3 Books podcast has been recognized... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

officials. Distrust in the government increases the preferred tax rate on the top 1% only when business legitimacy is low. A model with multiple equilibria helps interpret these findings. In one of the equilibria, meetings are allowed,... View Details