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- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Conference Proceedings More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I study how online competition, with its shrinking margins, algorithmic pricing technologies, and the transparency of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
upswing in applications. Other universities have benefitted similarly. The reality behind the "Flutie Effect." Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal A case study looks at the behavior of teammates who were swept up... View Details
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Harvard Business School
curriculum. Existing first–year required courses such as "Human Behavior in Organizations" and "Planning and the Business Environment" started to incorporate case studies on Black entrepreneurship and corporate expansion into urban... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
effective depended upon the situation (Fiedler, Tannenbaum and Schmidt, and Vroom and Yetton). This work was an integral part of the wave of organizational behavior research that led to what we labeled a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
extremely impressed that the emphasis was not so much on teaching us how to calculate days receivable or WACC figures precisely right, but on how to use practical interpretations of business concepts in our lives as leaders in whichever sector we choose. Not only... View Details
- Web
Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
change. It will draw upon a range of approaches for improving value in health care delivery, including continuous improvement, organizational redesign, population health management, precision medicine, patient engagement, digital health,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
relationships. I thought Organizational Behavior was for wimps. Now, it’s a large part of what I do.” CURRENT READING The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, by Jeff Shaara “In business, the notion of... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
http://www.innovation-enterprise.com/archives/vol/15/issue/1/article/4941/sustaining-innovation-when-outsourcing-components Ethically Adrift: How Others Pull Our Moral Compass from True North Authors:C. Moore and F. Gino Publication:Research in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
observers rate those who reveal even questionable behavior more positively (experiments 4A and 4B). The negative impact of hiding holds whether opting not to disclose unflattering (drug use, poor grades, and sexually transmitted diseases)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2018
- Article
Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk
By: Robert Bushman, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey and Abbie Smith
We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time and how risk management policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased... View Details
Keywords: Management; Personal Characteristics; Behavior; Risk Management; Organizational Culture; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith. "Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk." Journal of Accounting & Economics 65, no. 1 (February 2018): 191–220.
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
in press More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership Nudging as a Tool for Leaders By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
negative emotions, lower intrinsic motivation, and less favorable perceptions of the organization-with negative consequences for performance. These actions include signaling low expectations for innovation; switching strategic direction too frequently; miscoordination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Past By: Kouchaki, M., and F. Gino Abstract—Despite our optimistic belief that we would behave honestly when facing the temptation to act unethically, we often cross ethical boundaries. This paper explores one possibility for why people engage in unethical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this organizational heterogeneity: it may reflect inherent heterogeneity of the software workforce, in terms of which kinds of organizations individual workers prefer to work... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- November 2008 (Revised September 2014)
- Background Note
Differences at Work: The Leadership Challenge
By: Sandra J. Sucher
This note reviews research findings on the leadership challenges of diversity, including the social psychology of similarity and difference, the value of multiple perspectives to problem-solving, the relationship between diversity and firm performance, and management... View Details
Sucher, Sandra J. "Differences at Work: The Leadership Challenge." Harvard Business School Background Note 609-056, November 2008. (Revised September 2014.)
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
by Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972), Chairman, CEO and Cofounder of The Blackstone Group. For an event as monumental and impactful as the Leadership Dinner, the HBSCNY relies on a team of volunteer members who bring their varied management and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
PublicationsCollective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm's Rhetorical History Authors:Michel Anteby and Virag Molnar Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Much View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter (pronounced “SHOOMpayter”) to the study of economic behavior was to humanize it. In part because of his own turbulent life, he came to understand that mathematical certitude could not always prevail where “indeterminate human... View Details