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17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

Patriots, explores the sometimes intense role that emotions can play in negotiations and when passion is a positive at the table. Send The Right Message before Talks Begin Handshaking Promotes Cooperative Dealmaking Handshakes before... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 2020
Article

Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior

By: Akash Chattopadhyay, Matthew D. Shaffer and Charles C.Y. Wang

After decades of deprioritizing shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid... View Details

Keywords: JPX-Nikkei 400 Index; Status Incentives; Return On Equity; Capital Efficiency; Social Norms; Index Inclusion; Reputation Incentives; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Behavior; Investment Return; Status and Position; Japan

September 2012 (Revised November 2014)
Case

Cialis Lifecycle Management: Lilly's BPH Dilemma

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred

How should Eli Lilly further develop and market a new indication of its highly successful erectile-dysfunction (ED) drug, Cialis, without confusing Cialis's hard-won brand equity with physicians and patients? With the final stages of clinical trials for the new... View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Attitudes; Brands and Branding; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

Educators

December 2002 (Revised January 2014)
Case

Matt Leeds (A)

By: Linda A. Hill

A new associate in a consulting firm attempts to navigate his way through the norms and culture of a new setting and to manage his relationships with his superiors and peers, which got off to a poor start.

PLEASE NOTE: This case was revised in January 2014.... View Details

Keywords: Power and Influence; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Consulting Industry

Educators

July 2004 (Revised March 2006)
Background Note

Work and Job Search Related Stress

Explores the experience of work-related stress and examines various coping tactics. Pays particular attention to stress related to the job-search process. Teaching Purpose: To help students recognize sources of stress and develop more effective coping skills. View Details

Keywords: Job Search; Personal Development and Career; Emotions

Article

Cultural Diversity at Work: The Moderating Effects of Work Group Perspectives on Diversity

By: R. J. Ely and D. A. Thomas

Keywords: Perspective; Groups and Teams; Jobs and Positions; Diversity

21 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
Conference Presentation

Visual Attention to Power Posers: People Avert their Gaze from Nonverbal Displays of Power

By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf

Existing literature suggests that people visually attend more to powerful/high-status people. However, previous studies manipulated target power/status via the target’s role (e.g., CEO or judge vs. mechanic or fry cook) or clothing (e.g., business suit vs. sweat suit).... View Details

Keywords: Nonverbal Communication; Behavior; Rank and Position; Emotions; Power and Influence

Student-Profile

Omar Olivarez

himself drawn to the intersection of psychology and the emerging workplace technologies at the core of his software and operations work. He soon took a position as a research assistant at his alma mater. “I... View Details

July 2024
Article

Whether to Apply

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Manuela Collis and Leena Kulkarni

Labor market outcomes depend, in part, upon an individual’s willingness to put herself forward for different opportunities. We use a series of experiments to explore gender differences in willingness to apply for higher return, more challenging work. We find that, in... View Details

Keywords: Beliefs; Recruitment; Job Search; Gender; Attitudes

1995
Article

Managing Distrust: The Hidden Cost of Downsizing

By: D. Sull and N. Nohria

Keywords: Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Cost; Trust

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

existing theories that foreign aid can "buy" stability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49522 August 19, 2015 Frontiers in Psychology The Slow Decay and Quick Revival of Self-deception By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

five leader behaviors that have a positive influence on people's feelings, and the daily diary method allowed us to identify these behaviors at a very granular level. One of these is supporting people emotionally. The second is monitoring... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

01 Aug 2001
News

J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)

missile and submarine. Fox went to the Pentagon in 1963 as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for management systems. After two years, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in psychology and to teach a course in project... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; J. Sterling Livingston; George P. Baker; Government

25 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 25

Ceranic Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology 97, no. 3 (2012) Abstract Does power corrupt a moral identity, or does it enable a moral identity to emerge? Drawing from the power literature, we propose that the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 1993
Supplement

Prodigy Services Company (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Describes the actions taken by Prodigy executives. View Details

Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Conflict Management; Status and Position; Equality and Inequality

2011
Working Paper

'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications

By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich and Michael I. Norton

Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them. In laboratory... View Details

Keywords: Wages; Surveys; Wealth and Poverty; Behavior; Income; Research; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Personal Characteristics; Economics