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  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

would benefit from a field experiment on this topic, please write to Francesca Gino directly at fgino@hbs.edu. Related Reading: How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat How to Spot a Liar Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jan 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?

bias toward short-term results, as well as any hubris on their part, and to discover blind spots, top management should cultivate and rely on its strategy team, including employees, board members and consultants, to reduce the chance of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto; Fashion
  • 03 Jul 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

"goals and objectives, pressures, strengths, weaknesses, blind spots, and preferred work styles"; (2) understanding yourself and your needs, including "strengths and weaknesses, personal style, and predisposition toward... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

Management control systems and damage control experts serve a critical purpose. But don't let that blind you to an increasingly important reality. Controls can support complacency in an era when complacency can be deadly. Handled... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • 04 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

conversations, or in getting feedback, according to the authors of the book Work with Me: The 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women at Work. Yet, some 92 percent of men don’t believe they’re excluding women, the survey found. [div... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

interregnum, there were a lot of questions about my sanity.” Click Here While Honeywell’s experience might be seen as blind luck, academic research on recessions backs up the approach they used. In December 2008, HBS professors Ranjay... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

of a long-term interest (i.e., I won't have that cookie today because I can see that I will regret it down the road). In the area of social interaction, the impartial spectator allows us to see things from another's perspective rather than to be View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

overall agenda, but no more than a total of ten agenda items. Create a support system. It can consist of close friends or people close to you in your organization who will help you if you stumble. "You need some people who will tell it to you straight, who know... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2021
  • Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

raises. Review the outcomes of promotion and compensation decisions by race, gender, and other identity characteristics. Retention. Track attrition and tenure by gender. Combat flexibility stigma by focusing on measurable aspects of performance, and don’t turn a View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 19 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

strive to keep all employees forever. "You don't want blind loyalty," says Scott Brooks, an executive consultant at Minneapolis-based Gantz Wiley Research. "The best kind is when both parties are benefiting." Leigh... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

how much to adapt a business model is certainly important for extracting value from international operations. But to focus exclusively on the tension between global scale economies and local considerations is a mistake, for it blinds... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 04 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

standards by two experienced accounting professionals who were blind to the study's objectives. Overall, the results fail to support the proposition that the biggest auditors increasingly consider themselves too big to fail. Rather, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

blind spots.” More than likely, says Gompers, the increased performance is due to a combination of all three factors. He is currently working on a way to determine whether ethnic diversity causes the same spike in financial results.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

the author. I refereed that paper, blind, and wanted to refer to it in my book [Visible Hand], but could not find out who the author was" (since it was blind refereeing). A year later, I won the Newcomen Fellowship to come to HBS to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply chain process. They... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly unambiguous title: View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

considered one for most management students, like many inexperienced managers, these students are often blinded to the realities of management by their personal motivation and ambition. Often, management students arrive at business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

Starbucks on the main classroom floor. "We have to make it easy for our colleagues to show up," he said. "We can't put the blinds down and shut the doors if we want to change the culture." Sometimes the CEO needs to step in and handle a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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