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Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest… 2015 | About

Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest , 2015 Jenny Holzer (American, born 1950), Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest , 2015, Carrara White marble bench. Courtesy... View Details
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Sisto Merolla

my life, always treating my coworkers as "people" rather than "resources"? finally convince myself that no, politics in Italy is not only a dirty job for self-interested and dishonest people? always strive to... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

You Are What You Eat

destructive, and unsustainable,” he said. “Our treatment of livestock reflects the public worldview of self-interest and greed.” Until the modern era, Hodges asserted, farmers and keepers of livestock understood “the importance of... View Details
Keywords: agricultural intensification; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Short Takes

interdependencies." Looking Out for Number One The tension between the desire to maintain cordial relations with others and the need to act in one's own self-interest affects all human relations. This conflict is particularly apparent in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

New Releases

self-interest rather than in the interests of the whole. Thus, the decentralized organization must also develop new control systems. Jensen asserts that there are three main elements in an organization's total strategy: competitive,... View Details
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Filippo Mezzanotti

ability of a firm to finance itself. On the one hand, this analysis wants to provide evidence on how self-interested politicians can leverage their political power to extract personal rents, by favoring the access to credit of politically... View Details
  • 02 Jul 2008
  • News

No Pulp Fiction Allowed

theories blaming managers for the nation's economic malaise. The ideas stuck, and managers became, and remain, "hired hands" reduced to working for stockholders — and their own financial self-interest — at the expense of all other... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

I Gave at the Office

still a win for humanity. Julian Zlatev: There’s been a long debate in psychology about whether people are truly altruistic: Is altruism really altruism if it reflects this warm glow or the self-interested reasons Christine is talking... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-015.pdf Naiveté and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts Authors:Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract A wealth of literature documents how the common failure to think about the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

self-interest the common denominators to them all?" Echoing his point of view, does our current approach to greater accounting transparency through legislation and regulation attack the symptoms and not the disease? If so, is this a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7

self-interests of others contributes to suboptimal outcomes. Yet sometimes, an excess of cynicism appears to lead us to overthink the actions of others and make negative attributions about their motivations without sufficient cause. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

proud, or exuberant. These emotions can get in the way of thinking about each party's self-interest and also the interests of the larger shareholder group and the company. Owners should recognize their feelings but make an agreement that... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators You may think you are an ethical person, but self-interest can cloud your judgment when you sit down at the bargaining table, says Max Bazerman. The year’s 5 most downloaded research papers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

self-interest, is associated with greater self-interest only in the presence of a weak moral identity. Furthermore, we propose that the psychological experience of power is associated with less self-interest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelChoudhury20111114.pdf Naivete and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts Authors:Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:The Academy of Management Annals 5, no. 1 (June 2011) Abstract A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

The Plight of the Global Poor

global poverty for some time. They believe that in pursuing its own self-interest in opening and expanding the BOP market, business can make a profit while serving the poorest of consumers and contributing to development. As Rangan... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

An Economy Undermined

that maximizing profits is wrong, or that self-interest is morally repugnant. But things got out of hand. Consider, for example, the case of Wriston, who was really the father of financialization. As a top executive and later head of... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

"Divergences between ethics and financial self-interest that appear acute in the short-term can narrow or disappear if a longer-term perspective is taken." True, Paine's big-picture purview may be a bit hard to swallow when the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

self-interests over others' interests, influencing the decisions they make. Experiment 1 found that participants primed with luxury goods were more likely than those primed with non-luxury goods to endorse business decisions that benefit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity

of one typically harms their institutions far more than the direct admission of a mistake. The Greatest Generation, venerated for placing stewardship and institutional trust ahead of self-interest, contrasts starkly with those in this generation of leaders who believe... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Education
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