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  • 02 Dec 2019
  • What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

possibly was another example unfolded. As reader Anna Johnson put it, “When the pressure to meet quarterly performance expectations against best-guess sales targets and a flesh pounding schedule take precedence, it’s not surprising that View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation
  • 08 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

positive recency in choices. At the same time, there remains an overall consistency between choices and assessments. A third study validates the results in a field study. The results show that, after a negative rare-event (i.e., a suicide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

everyday work life, but to date, little is known about how weather affects individual productivity. Most people believe that bad weather conditions reduce productivity. In this research, we predict and find just the opposite. Drawing on cognitive View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

joke and saying, ‘Am I being politically correct?’ is also insulting, and someone needs to let that person know. That’s when you start to tilt the balance in the culture.” Place women in powerful positions Sexual harassment is a power... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

one night a year when you meet the teachers. I had been at the board meeting that day. I was going to be at the board meeting the next day. But it was the dinner that posed a problem, and I said, "Lou, I'll do whatever you want, but this is the View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • Winter 2024
  • Article

Is Pay Transparency Good?

By: Zoë B. Cullen
Countries around the world are enacting pay transparency policies to combat pay discrimination. Since 2000, 71 percent of OECD countries have done so. Most are enacting transparency horizontally, revealing pay between coworkers doing similar work within a firm. While... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Wages; Knowledge Sharing; Job Design and Levels; Negotiation; Performance Productivity; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Investor_Sentiment_JFE_Article_In_Press.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Desai Publication:Journal of Personality and Social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes help sum up the nature of the thought-provoking debate stirred by this month's column. On the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

named him assistant secretary of labor for international affairs, a position to which he was reappointed several years later by President Kennedy. In 1962, Lodge, who had strong views about issues such as foreign aid, unemployment, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

bankrupt the company. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53093 2017 The Moral Responsibility of Firms Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—A long-standing question... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

that their goods have been safety tested by a truly independent third party, and that the products comply with meaningful safety standards. For the world's largest retailer to take a bold position on safety would set a strong precedent... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

Psychology Time, Money, and Happiness By: Mogilner, Cassie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—We highlight recent research examining how people should manage their most precious resources—time and money—to maximize their happiness. Contrary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

disbursements are relatively more staggered. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w14074 Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a goal-oriented model of political participation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

of the book, in discussing the importance of self-knowledge, it is posited that judgment capability (my italics) is a function of experience. At the risk of oversimplification, according to the authors, good judgment is characterized as a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • September 2012 (Revised May 2013)
  • Case

Automating the Paris Subway (A)

By: Michel Anteby, Elena Corsi and Emilie Billaud
In 2001, the head of the Paris Subway reflected on how to transform Line 1 into a driverless line without triggering a social conflict. After the shock of the 2000 Notre Dame de Lorette subway accident, in which a train derailed and caused 25 injuries in a Paris subway... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Technological Innovation; Rail Transportation; Labor Unions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Conflict Management; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; Paris
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  • January 2003 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Cat is out of the Bag, The: KANA and the Layoff Gone Awry (A)

By: Leslie A. Perlow and David Ager
Vicki Amon-Higa, vice president of KANA, a publicly traded, midsize development company, was working with Bryan Kettle, KANA's CFO, to plan a layoff in which KANA would reduce the size of its workforce by nearly 40%. Despite the best of intentions, news of the layoff... View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Employees; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict Management
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  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

supremacists brought these once-hidden issues back to the forefront of social consciousness. Stereotyping contributes directly to unconscious bias, a subject about which Mahzarin Banaji, chair of Harvard’s psychology department, has... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 07 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

not delve into the psychology behind those choices. He and Silva, now husband and wife, co-authored the 2015 working paper Tax-Minded Executives and Corporate Tax Strategies: Evidence from the 2013 Tax Hikes. A correlation on tax... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

edited by James P. Walsh and Arthur P. Brief. Psychology Press, 2007 Abstract Environmental issues, while of growing interest, have been outside the main focus of business scholarship. This position on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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