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21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an... View Details

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

they ask is, 'Who else is doing it?'— Rosabeth Moss Kanter First there is denial. The laggard sees the change—a disruptive technology, say—as temporary, choosing instead to believe the company is in a fine position when this thing blows... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

improvements in delivering specific healthcare services and justify further investigation of process improvements. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54827 in press Journal of Personality and Social View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Because ideas move the world, and I wanted to move the world. I have a PhD in sociology, with a focus on social psychology and organizational behavior. Being a thought leader is a form of leadership, and I'm... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

research in a real-world setting bears this out, with positive emotion tied to higher creativity and negative feelings linked to lower motivation and creativity. (Data for her study are based on diary evidence that a subject actually did... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

reframing issues or setting up confidence-building mechanisms. The ability to foster productive working relationships is another key to managing conflict. Such relationships act as a kind of psychological buffer during difficult times. As... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

November–December 2023
Article

Look the Part? The Role of Profile Pictures in Online Labor Markets

By: Isamar Troncoso and Lan Luo

Profile pictures are a key component of many freelancing platforms, a design choice that can impact hiring and matching outcomes. In this paper, we examine how appearance-based perceptions of a freelancer’s fit for the job (i.e., whether a freelancer "looks the part"... View Details

Keywords: Freelancers; Gig Workers; Demographics; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Jobs and Positions; Analytics and Data Science

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10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

communication positions you for opportunities to pursue your own treasure, to join other people's journeys, and to bring others along on your journey with you as well. One of the principles of communication, as I like to put it, is Ask... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

November 2024
Case

Innovation at Master Kong Beverages

By: David E. Bell and Shu Lin

Hong-Chen Wei (HBS MBA 2014), Chairman of KSF Beverage Holding Co., Ltd. (KSFB), was steering the company toward the premium segment with the launch of “InheriTea,” a premium, sugar-free tea product. Traditionally, KSFB’s flagship brand, Master Kong, catered to the... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Trends; Behavior; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Product Development; Segmentation; Organizational Culture; Product Positioning; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; China

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26 Sep 2005
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What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

negotiation or, say, your relative position in an organization, but rather a perception of the parties in the negotiation as to how much power you have in that setting. And the second component is that it's relative. While I might feel... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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

arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

certain circumstances; and they tend to be physically and psychologically distant from the companies’ activities. Joseph Bower and Lynn Paine examine the agency-based model’s foundations and flaws and its implications for companies before... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

10 Sep 2013
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hold when considering changes in India's incumbent industry structures from 1989, determined before large-scale deregulation began, to 2005. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_OConnell_RS_IndiaSpatial-8-26-13.pdf 2006 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2005
News

Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist, she rose through NGO management View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

17 Feb 2003
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Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

Anderson found sustenance in personal and professional relationships that allowed her to talk through the situation and regain her psychological footing. "In the middle of last summer, when no one was hiring, I found six jobs. A new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

11 Jun 2001
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E-Commerce Unplugged

Companies that spent decades understanding consumer-buying psychology traditionally assumed that specific products could satisfy discrete consumer needs. Now, they will need to define consumers by their fundamental life intentions (the... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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