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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2011
  • Article

How Great Companies Think Differently

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the actions of most corporations, constraining them to focus on maximizing short-term... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; Social Issues; Competitive Advantage
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  • December 1999
  • Case

Agrochemicals at Ciba-Geigy AG (A)

By: Michael L. Tushman, Wendy Smith and Daniel Radov
After spending five years to develop a revolutionary product, the director of Ciba-Geigy's fungicide research department is handed an unfavorable market study. The case details the R&D process for the new product, including information on corporate partnerships,... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Marketing Channels; Change Management; Product Development; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 09 May 2011
  • News

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

  • Research Summary

Overview

Ms. Fedyk's main research interests lie at the intersection of asset pricing and behavioral finance, with a particular focus on information and belief formation. Her job market paper is part of a broader research agenda on the way in which information is incorporated... View Details
  • May 23, 2011
  • Article

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
To determine the extent to which corporate and investor behavior is changing to contribute to a more sustainable society, researchers Robert Eccles and George Serafeim analyzed data involving over 2,000 companies in 23 countries. One result: a ranking of countries... View Details
Keywords: Change; Society; Corporate Disclosure; Natural Environment; Rank and Position; Social Issues; Financial Statements; Behavior
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  • 24 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg

    NoamWasserman.com

    Noam's research focuses on the early, often difficult decisions founders face that can make or break their startups.  This site includes his long-time research blog, resources tied to his Founders' Dilemmas course and his book (The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating... View Details
    • November 2015
    • Article

    The Highest Form of Intelligence: Sarcasm Increases Creativity for Both Expressers and Recipients

    By: Li Huang, F. Gino and Adam D. Galinsky
    Sarcasm is ubiquitous in organizations. Despite its prevalence, we know surprisingly little about the cognitive experiences of sarcastic expressers and recipients or their behavioral implications. The current research proposes and tests a novel theoretical model in... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking
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    • 12 Feb 2017
    • News

    Harvard Business School makes a case for diversity

    • January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
    • Teaching Note

    Maritz Automotive

    By: Ashley V. Whillans and Lamar Pierce
    This case focuses on Charlotte Blank, the Chief Behavioral Officer at Maritz, as she tries to assist a major automotive manufacturer (CarCo) with increasing their sales by prepaying monthly bonuses to independently franchised car dealers and clawing them back if the... View Details
    Keywords: Loss-framing; Sales; Performance Improvement; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Theory; Auto Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Strategy and Location

    An increasing number of companies finds that their individual success is more and more not only a function of their own decisions but also of the local business environment they operate in. In a globalized world economy, these geographically bound factors are among the... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Public Health Debate Over Smoking

    In research relevant to the current public health debate about smoking, Professor King and co-authors examine the effect of the tobacco settlement on cigarette advertising in magazines, the advertising behavior of cigarette companies in recruiting underage teenagers... View Details
    • 05 Aug 2015
    • News

    Whose Lives Matter?

    • 2022
    • Conference Presentation

    Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness

    By: Samantha N. Smith, Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Katherine L. Milkman
    Competition is prevalent in organizations. For example, people often compete against their colleagues for status and recognition in the workplace or for opportunities for advancement. Workers also compete against others to get hired into organizations in the first... View Details
    Keywords: Status and Position; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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    • 18 Dec 2013
    • HBS Case

    Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

    to facilitate it," says Professor of Management Practice Clayton S. Rose, who sees in Armstrong's story an ideal vessel for teaching lessons about business ethics and leadership. Along with research associate Noah Fisher, Rose wrote... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports
    • Article

    In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

    By: Teresa M. Amabile
    Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known,... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Behavior; Innovation and Invention
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    An Insider’s Perspective on How to Reduce Fraud in the Social Sciences

    By: Max Bazerman
    I will describe how a fraudulent paper developed and offer insights into the institutional changes that are needed. I was a co-author on a paper described as a “clusterfake” due to at least two frauds allegedly occurring in the same paper. I will use my knowledge of... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Research
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

    By: Teresa M. Amabile
    Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known,... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Behavior; Innovation and Invention
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      Eva Ascarza

      Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit.  She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the D^3 institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Marketing core in the MBA required... View Details

      Keywords: telecommunications; e-commerce industry; entertainment; financial services; retailing