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  • 05 Jul 2006
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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
  • 31 Jan 2012
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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
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

economic development, and time-invariant unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. And yet, investors take chances over and over often with great success when they hit it big with a game-changing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Many Dumb Things and What You Can Do About It by Steven A. Stanton (MBA 1984) (FCB Partners) Stanton argues that organizational transformation is needed when organizations are trapped in the status quo and employees are frantically busy... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

important but non-specified goals, harm interpersonal relationships, corrode organizational culture, and motivate risky and unethical behaviors. Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network? Download the PDF. In spite of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Web

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

is Fairness Organizational Fairness and Challenges Explicit Bias vs. Implicit Bias Show Hide Details Concepts Employee Considerations An Analysis Using the Reflective Leadership Framework Examining Employee Responsibilities at Scale: What... View Details
  • 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

(relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and morality. We apply principles derived from the literature on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

to cooperate with the physicians in the future. Thus, moral gray zones enable both managers and workers to perform their roles. Q: Gray zones might be detrimental to organizational health, even subversive. When employees do things behind... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

Morris, and Leonard Lee Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

works published on their economic history. (When) Are Religious People Nicer? Religious Salience and the 'Sunday Effect' on Pro-social Behavior Author: Deepak Malhotra Publication: Judgment and Decision Making (in press) Abstract Prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July – August 2011
  • Article

What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria and George Serafeim
A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Forecasting and Prediction; Industry Growth; Judgments; Performance; Valuation; Price; Quality; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Competency and Skills; Surveys
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  • 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

this area in a variety of disciplines—economics, geography, marketing, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and strategy—in order to explore the many ways that locations matter for firms. In eleven varied papers, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

in the work place is that generally we have more patience and a 'nicer' way of putting things-good or bad!" Kapil Sopory added that "women display better problem solving skill and organizational loyalty than men. They are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

  Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present three studies demonstrating that outcome information biases ethical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with executives using discretion and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal internal connections between many parts of the organization. With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman