Identity - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces (Experiment 3). These experiments suggest that mind perception is a dynamic process in which relevant contextual information such as social identity and out-group threat change the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

business-unit managers choose local measures that influence, but are not necessarily identical to the corporate scorecard measures. The most remarkable transformations and partnerships occur in support functions and shared services, such... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

male names (like John). Then participants were paired with another participant—male against male, male against female, and female against female. Participants never knew the actual identities of their opponents, but they were given the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

the situation that must be rectified." Kapil Kumar Sopory cited his concern that insolvency would further exacerbate inequality, expressing the fear that "This is going to lead to revolutions in the long run." Tom Dolembo added, "Dissolving a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have implications for national statistical offices, researchers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Yet, why do gray zones persist and why are they unlikely to disappear? In Moral Gray Zones, Michel Anteby shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers' identity and self-esteem while... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

contributions. Financial copy cats move in Most of the strategy Wealthfront pursues is identical for each client; however, it does provide some amount of individual customization through a process known as tax-loss harvesting and asset... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

25 Aug 2015
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decades about how and why people make the moral decisions they do. In this review, we explain how intuition, affect, physiology, and identity support and inform more deliberative reasoning process in the construction and enactment of... View Details

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

attention, overconfidence, and identity commitments-that affected the firm's ability to learn, attend to, reflect on, and dynamically respond to information and changes in its environment. Our longitudinal research reveals a downside of... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

August 2023
Technical Note

Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman

Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives; Human Needs; Satisfaction; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; Music Industry; Education Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

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07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

rise, which afforded numerous growth opportunities such as entering the broader identity management space, creating new products to protect critical infrastructure, and securing the burgeoning world of the Internet of Things (IoT). This... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

Translation? EQ—the hardest leadership skill to build. Many people reading this will be managers of teams or groups. How can they best support these ideas? We did a study when I was at Walmart comparing stores with identical sales, square... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

31 Jan 2011
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Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

I'm interested in understanding when and for what multiple identities can be harmful vs. helpful." Thomas is preparing a case that shows how General Electric used its internal diversity policies to enhance both its business efforts... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care

particular medical conditions. A recent report shows that Medicare costs for identical conditions vary greatly from state to state, and even within states, with no apparent difference in the quality of care. How do you explain those... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

July 2020
Teaching Plan

Girls Who Code

By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details

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22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain’s empire and the nation’s imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire’s role in shaping the world today. Time... View Details

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

unconditional. The conditional compensation schemes were termed bonus, punitive, and real-punitive. The bonus and punitive conditions were identical except for how they were framed. The bonus condition presented a positive spin: if you... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life

making the application process align with our DEI objectives.” After recruitment comes retention which includes many of the suggestions we have shared above as well as coaching and promotion. Tailored coaching on developing within the organization while honoring and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

in private equity and I really wanted to... my identity was wrapped up in doing private equity. That was who I was. And then I went to do private equity and it just blew up and all of my sort of self-esteem was caught up in that and I... View Details

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

male-typed task even when they have identical resumes. Using a novel control condition, we document that this discrimination is not specific to gender. Employers are simply less willing to hire a worker from a group that performs worse on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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