Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (93) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 4 of 93 Results →
Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • December 2019
  • Article

When Do We Punish People Who Don't?

By: Justin W. Martin, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand and Fiery Cushman
People often punish norm violations. In what cases is such punishment viewed as normative—a behavior that we “should”or even“must”engage in? We approach this question by asking when people who fail to punish a norm violator are, themselves, punished. (For instance, a... View Details
Keywords: Punishment; Norms; Cooperation; Societal Protocols; Adaptation
Related
  • October 2015
  • Article

The Relational Nature of Leadership Identity Construction: How and When It Influences Perceived Leadership and Decision-Making

By: Lisa Marchiondo, Christopher G. Myers and Shirli Kopelman
This paper empirically tests leadership identity construction theory (DeRue & Ashford, 2010), conceptually framing claiming and granting leadership as a negotiated process that influences leadership perceptions and decision-making in interdependent contexts. In Study... View Details
Keywords: Identity Construction; Leadership Development; Identity
Related
  • April 2012 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Dovernet

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement systems to create performance pressure, motivate employee achievement, and sharpen a firm's competitiveness. It opens by describing the downsides of the ruthlessly competitive culture at... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Vancouver
Related
  • April 2023
  • Article

A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing to Boost Volunteering: The Trade-off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility

By: Aneesh Rai, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman and Angela L. Duckworth
Research suggests that breaking overarching goals into more granular subgoals is beneficial for goal progress. However, making goals more granular often involves reducing the flexibility provided to complete them, and recent work shows that flexibility can also be... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement
Related
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

(When) Does Appearance Matter? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis and Subhradip Sarker
While there is evidence about labor market discrimination based on race, religion, and gender, we know little about whether physical appearance leads to discrimination in labor market outcomes. We deploy a randomized experiment on 1,000 respondents in India between... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Coronavirus; Discrimination; Homophily; Labor Market Mobility; Limited Attention; Resumes; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias
Related
  • 2018
  • Article

What Can Managers Privately Disclose to Investors?

By: Eugene F. Soltes
Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2000 created Regulation Fair Disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure Regulation; Information; Communication; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Related
  • June 2003
  • Case

Judo in Action

Contains four short stories about small firms challenging large firms. Illustrates some of the ideas that have been termed "judo strategy." In each case, one can argue that the small firm attempts to use the large firm's size and incumbency to constrain the large firm... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Competitive Advantage
Related
  • 2022
  • Article

Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium

By: Nathan Wilmers and Letian Zhang
Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substantial labor market inequality, commentators typically dismiss these claims as hypocritical: prosocial... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Equality and Inequality; Wages; Recruitment
Related
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

read vignettes about an individual’s display of distress, which they described as caused by either emotionality or passion. They then rated the competency of that person. Participants perceived those who said they were passionate as more... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

of themselves. "I wish a lot of the HBS students were more aware of how their behavior impacts others." he says. The Power Of Vulnerability Flying without a Net is not a quantitative book, a fact that DeLong initially worried about before writing it. It is... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 02 Sep 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

Summing Up The dilemma posed by the HP-inspired vignette of a CEO allegedly failing to adhere to company values divided respondents to the September column. Two schools of thought evolved. One was that the CEO should be fired for cause... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

and forcing it into bankruptcy. Other unions at the airline decided not to support the strike in view of past differences they had had with the mechanics. As a result, the airline continued to operate with replacement labor. It is perhaps one small View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

person's view of the water privatization (relative to other privatizations) was 16% more negative if he/she was read a vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's President expressed during... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

(B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112037-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112038-PDF-ENG "Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto: A Case Vignette on Feedback—Denise Frazer's Perspective Joshua... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

covers the history of newspapers, industry economics, current news consumption trends, the response of the newspapers to the threat of the Internet, and vignettes highlighting newspaper business models throughout the world. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

provides rich insights into how contracts between labels and artists are structured and how advances in technology are impacting the music industry and its players. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511031-PDF-ENG Employment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

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

about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures to test whether patient demand-side factors or physician supply-side... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611069-PDF-ENG Strengths Become Weaknesses: Cognitive Biases in Founder Decision-Making Noam Wasserman and Kyle AndersonHarvard Business School Note 811-068 This note combines vignettes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

employees who struggle with mental health issues. To engage students in a role-play, the note includes a vignette featuring a struggling CEO. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-074 BASF: Co-Creating Innovation (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-062... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web