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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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    How Warm Days Increase Belief in Global Warming

    By: Lisa Zaval, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Eric J. Johnson and Elke U. Weber
    Climate change judgments can depend on whether today seems warmer or colder than usual, termed the local warming effect. Although previous research has demonstrated that this effect occurs, studies have yet to explain why or how temperature abnormalities influence... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Attitudes
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    Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement

    Among historians, Alfred Chandler's influence is by far the greatest, as he has affected economics, sociology, and business administration. Chandler never took short cuts, never stinted, and never published until he was satisfied that he had done his very best.... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Success; Books; Demand and Consumers; Power and Influence; Economic Growth; Ethics; Knowledge Sharing; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Fair Value Accounting
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    • December 2010
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    Organizing the In-between: The Population Dynamics of Network-weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network

    By: Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason
    This article examines the population dynamics and viability of network weavers, which are organizations that provide network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the interstate... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Organizations; Demographics; Relationships; Globalization; Economics; Conflict and Resolution; Value; Lawfulness; Competition
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    • fall 2008
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    Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations

    By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
    Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who participate in operating systems are... View Details
    Keywords: Management Systems; Operations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Perspective; Theory
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    build climate resilience. Jacqueline shares insights from two decades of investing in poverty alleviation that includes climate resilience and adaptation social enterprises engaging in agriculture and off-grid solar. She explains how... View Details
    • 2012
    • Book

    The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

    By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
    While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Economic Growth; Research and Development
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    • 2022
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    When Regular Meets Remarkable: Awe as a Link between Routine Work and Meaningful Self-Narratives

    By: Elizabeth Sheprow and Spencer Harrison
    Daily narratives of work can include a mix of ordinary actions and awe-inspiring moments that reveal a vaster, more meaningful reality. When awe is experienced in the context of work, it can prompt self-referential sensemaking about what these experiences mean for the... View Details
    Keywords: Narratives; Meaning; Qualitative Method; Emotions; Identity; Employment
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    • 2014
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    Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity

    By: Jooa Julia Lee, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats
    People believe that weather conditions influence their everyday work life, but to date, little is known about how weather affects individual productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we predict and find that bad weather increases individual productivity and that... View Details
    Keywords: Productivity; Opportunity Cost; Distractions; Weather; Performance Productivity; Cognition and Thinking
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Lost in Transmission

    By: Thomas Graeber, Shakked Noy and Christopher Roth
    For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to... View Details
    Keywords: Information Trnasmission; Word Of Mouth; Word-of-Mouth; Narratives; Reliability; Knowledge Sharing; Spoken Communication; Cognition and Thinking
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    Middle East & North Africa - Global

    unique research and teaching resource on business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East over recent decades. At its core are over 180 interviews by Harvard faculty with high impact leaders in business and social... View Details
    • May 2014
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    Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

    By: Nils Rudi and David Drake
    In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias—the tendency to... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Logistics; Decision Making
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    A Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism?

    By: Paula Rettl, Diane Bolet, Catherine E. De Vries, Simone Cremaschi, Tarik Abou-Chadi and Sergi Pardos-Prado
    The growing participation of women in the labor market has marked a significant societal transformation, coinciding with the rise of gender conservatism and far-right support. We study whether the economic consequences of labor market feminization and gender backlash... View Details
    Keywords: Gender Bias; Gender Equality; Gender Inclusivity; Politics; Political Backlash; Political Culture; Conservatism; Gender; Government and Politics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Labor
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    • 2009
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    Implicit Affect in Organizations

    By: Sigal G. Barsade, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Drew Westen
    Our goal is to integrate the construct of implicit affect—affective processes activated or processed outside of conscious awareness that influence ongoing thought, behavior, and conscious emotional experience—into the field of organizational behavior. We begin by... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Framework; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective
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    • 05 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

    social interaction. We can have a lot of control over how other people feel and react to us, says Brooks. “Some people might be uncomfortable about exerting that control strategically because it might seem manipulative. But the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

      James K. Sebenius

      JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced... View Details

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      A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

      the then-dominant paradigm of scientific management had led managers to believe. The social system, which defined a worker’s relation to her work and to her companions, was not the product of rational engineering but of actual,... View Details
      • 14 May 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: May 14

      effective care teams and good management of local operations (clinical microsystems). Clinicians influence both, and local clinician leaders will have several key tasks. Publisher's link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1301814... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 26 Dec 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

      Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet
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      Sadness, Identity, and Plastic in Over-shopping: The Interplay of Materialism, Poor Credit Management, and Emotional Buying Motives in Predicting Compulsive Buying

      By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova and Ryan Howell
      A comprehensive study is currently lacking to explain why material values strongly influence compulsive buying. The goal of the current study is to test if money management, buying motivations for improving mood and identity, and self-transformation expectations... View Details
      Keywords: Credit Cards; Consumer Behavior; Identity; Emotions
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