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- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
experts to weigh in on 2018’s top spots. Jill Avery Senior Lecturer of Business Administration 2017 was a somber and contentious year for the United States. So it came as no surprise on Super Bowl Sunday to see marketers compile a laundry list of American View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Abstract Across eight experiments, we describe the influence of anxiety on advice seeking and advice taking. We find that anxious individuals are more likely to seek and rely on advice than are those in a neutral emotional state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
emotions. "Even very successful people carry a great degree of anxiety with them to the negotiating table," Wheeler says, "and that anxiety is an obstacle to effective performance." Research that he and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
big-brand retailer seems to have survived and even thrived in the apocalyptic retail landscape. What's its secret? Research Papers Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply LandscapeThe impact of customer View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
Anxiety Through Access to Human ContactThis study finds that customer anxiety during self-service transactions can reduce customers’ trust in the service provider. Operational design choices may help.... View Details
- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
annuitization will help retirees allay their anxieties about outliving their savings, while allowing them to use their remaining plan assets to pursue their other retirement goals. Robert Pozen, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
temperament." The workings of what we now call reason spring from a primitive emotion—our anxiety at being alive and thrust toward an end past which we cannot see with any of our senses. The impulse to explain is the impulse to... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
strategy if they thought others might find out. How to combat commitment anxiety All of this leads to a conundrum: If using commitment strategies is helpful in achieving goals and may even represent more dedication to the task at hand,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
officers and government officials, we found that, compared to non-leaders, leaders had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol and lower reports of anxiety (Study 1). In a second study, leaders holding more powerful positions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45847 August 2013 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement By: Brooks, Alison Wood Abstract—Individuals often feel anxious... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
leading their teams in a way that ensures there's equity of contribution and evaluation. There's a great deal of performance anxiety in global organizations, where people are worried about how they are being appraised, whether it is on... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
who handle their clients’ anxieties with more skill and confidence do tend to set more reasonable expectations for their teams. They know how to narrow the scope of a project to exactly what’s needed and avoid unnecessary effort, she... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
subjective stress, although his responsibilities had increased as he navigated the logistics “to get back to normal, and to re-employ many people whom we had to furlough.” A second acknowledged that anxiety about his business had... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
it may take them some time to get over their financial anxiety even after the shutdown has been settled. In addition, programs like Head Start and nutrition assistance, targeted at the disadvantaged, are put on hold, something that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas, a stronger interest in people rather than things, prefer jobs in social or artistic areas, extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness, and neuroticism, characterized by high View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
team, not of just one individual. So there are ways that you might put together a team that actually represents the whole basket of skills and experience needed while you are only a part of it. Q: Are VC's anxieties about women... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
political will to push for alternative energy sources. Yet even in the midst of gridlock in Washington, economic anxiety around the world, and government liquidity crises in Europe, technology marched on, seemingly impervious to global... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
can help make those with social anxiety more comfortable by interviewing them on their own turf or using icebreakers before a conversation, turning an introvert into a temporary extrovert open to sharing ideas and producing a more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding