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  • November 2014 (Revised March 2016)
  • Background Note

Mental Health and the American Workplace

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Mental illness has been described as an epidemic affecting nearly a quarter of all Americans in their lifetimes, often during their most productive working years. Managers who can design organizations that maximize mental health can minimize these risks and boost... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Productivity; Competitiveness; Stress Management; Depression; Absenteeism; Presenteeism; Work Culture; Business or Company Management; Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity; Organizational Culture; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

decide whether to let employees go. In light of Barry-Wehmiller’s people practices and strategy, what should he do? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717420-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-010 Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

case: http://hbr.org/product/andreessen-horowitz/an/814060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-067 'These People Are Fiduciaries...' The fiduciary duties of loyalty and care, the corporate opportunity doctrine, and the business judgment rule are introduced in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

their increased tendency to behave fairly. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/shaw et al.pdf Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Georgetown Economic Policy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

young, CDL Shanghai had grown to become one of IBM's largest labs. The case examines IBM's early-mover establishment of its corporate research lab and CDL, and through the examination of three product development vignettes looks at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's president expressed during the nationalization process. Interestingly, the effect of the vignette on households... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

investigated the influence of outcome information on ethical judgment. Participants read a series of vignettes describing ethically-questionable behaviors. We manipulated whether those behaviors were followed by a negative or positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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