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  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

deals. The problem, according to these executives, is that foreigners are rarely invited. "It's really a perception that foreigners can't appreciate the culture," says Chua. In practice, it means that foreign businesspeople are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

attending meetings, having lunch with workers, and interviewing team members to get a comprehensive view of perceptions on both sides. The researchers also uploaded extensive notes to share with each other every day. Perlow spent time in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Article

Olfactory Cues from Romantic Partners and Strangers Moderate Women's Responses to Stress

By: Marlise Hofer, Hanne Collins, Ashley V. Whillans and Frances Chen
The scent of another person can activate memories, trigger emotions, and spark romantic attraction; however, almost nothing is known about whether and how human scents influence responses to stress. In the current study, 96 women were randomly assigned to smell one of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Personal Characteristics; Perception
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  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

hero in this still-forming space, can start with one conversation, one email, one question. Every marathon starts with a single step, and you'd be surprised at where that step can take you. I know personally that Zak Williams and Garen... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

Social Behavior By: Crockett, Molly J., and Amy Cuddy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49863 October 2015 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Men as Cultural Ideals:... View Details
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

personality traits connected to charisma. Those traits are a sense of power or dominance, trustworthiness, competence, aggressiveness, warmth, and generosity. They depict the possible theoretical relationships between CVP and the 11... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

future. Recent Publications Is Personal Identity Intransitive? By: J. De Freitas and L. J. Rips March 2025 | Article | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General There has been a call for a potentially revolutionary change to our... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Employers Favor Men

It’s not news that women are much less likely to get hired for jobs than men, even when the candidates have the exact same qualifications. Now, new research sheds light on why this happens. Employers favor men not because they are prejudiced against women, but because... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Aug 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-048 Intuit: Turbo Tax Personal Pro—A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs The case tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
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  • October 6, 2015
  • Article

Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable

By: Francesca Gino, Caroline Ashley Wilmuth and Alison Wood Brooks
Women are underrepresented in most high-level positions in organizations. While a great deal of research has provided evidence that bias and discrimination give rise to and perpetuate this gender disparity, in the current research, we explore another explanation: men... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Gender
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  • March 2017
  • Article

Why Do We Hate Hypocrites? Evidence for a Theory of False Signaling

By: Jillian J. Jordan, Roseanna Sommers, Paul Bloom and David G. Rand
Why do people judge hypocrites, who condemn immoral behaviors that they in fact engage in, so negatively? We propose that hypocrites are disliked because their condemnation sends a false signal about their personal conduct, deceptively suggesting that they behave... View Details
Keywords: Moral Psychology; Condemnation; Vignettes; Deception; Social Signaling; Open Data; Open Materials; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Perception
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  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

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

framing alters perceptions of (in)completeness, making intermediate progress seem less complete. In turn, these feelings of incompleteness motivate people to persist until the pseudo-set has been fulfilled. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • November 1982
  • Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique

By: T. M. Amabile
States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Measurement and Metrics; Research; Perception; Theory
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  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Associate Professor Laura Huang, who studies early entrepreneurship, where failure is common. “You can take two people who work equally hard, and one person will naturally have an advantage and achieve success, while the other can’t climb... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

mountain, Everest has never been a cakewalk: 148 people have lost their lives attempting to reach the summit since 1922. Newspaper and magazine articles and books—most famously, Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

its strategic direction. The question fostering the widest range of opinions among those whose counsel I value is that of just how long it takes to change a culture. Among many, there is a perception that organizational culture change... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

frustration or sadness. Wolf differentiates those expressions from anger directed at others. In the paper Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion, published in the November 2016 issue of Organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland