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  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

worker productivity by using data from two important applications—police hiring and teacher tenure decisions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50430 December 2015 Current Opinion in Psychology The What and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

what the human body needs physically and mentally to respond to these challenges. Think of these as your new toolkit for high performance in a business world turned upside down. Let’s start with some executives’ comments from the survey,... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

different resources and needs to the table. Second, over time, Lucci built a reputation as someone who could get things done. There are lots of sporting-goods stores in Greater Boston and lots of radar guns, too. Yet Lucci went to the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

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: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

networks is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when layers of managers are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization.” A year ago many people poked fun at Facebook as a place where kids shared their latest... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

et al. Publication: British Journal of Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract Income inequality undermines societies: the more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, and life... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

what others thought was possible. For example, in the 1910s, Frank Phillips—who founded Phillips Petroleum—was a typical Mold-Maker. He took advantage of the burgeoning automobile industry and especially the need for both natural gas and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

activities cancelled and some teams' facilities closed, there won't be enough time for player physicals, gathering psychological testing, getting further verified information about the players and some teams having to conduct the draft... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

memory for their past unethical actions is impaired. We propose that after engaging in unethical behavior, individuals’ memory of their actions becomes more obfuscated over time due to the psychological distress and discomfort such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control

the most successful. Kost: Companies are used to controlling their brands and operations. But with user communities, companies need to strike a balance between influencing the group and stifling it. How do the best companies get it right?... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

ownership. Tema Frank suggested that “If you want employees to behave like owners, they need to be allowed to express opinions and have them taken seriously.” LuAnne suggested that, “If you want an ownership culture, invest in career... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to have a nest egg. They hoped I... View Details
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

  PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into the social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

boundaries. First, we present the psychological processes that cause individuals to behave unethically without their own awareness. Next, we examine the conditions that lead people to fail to accurately assess others' unethical behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

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
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

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
  • 26 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

avoid becoming ensnared in future global conflicts. Q: What does the next President of the United States need to do first to change the present course? A: Here's what we think: (a) Keep real vigilance in the homeland against terrorism.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

September–October 2016 European Business Review What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

Thanks to the Internet, customer management software, and the success of Dell, the concept of order management and customer focus has proven profitable for those companies that have embraced it. They understand and can anticipate their customer View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston