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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
that researchers can potentially invoke to supplement other resources available to them. We propose a framework of antecedents for the use of professional social networks by academics. The framework captures researchers’ relevant personal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated resources in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different worlds closer together. Despite national differences, these transnational road warriors frequently have a common grounding in education, professional background, and global popular... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
transnational road warriors frequently have a common grounding in education, professional background, and global popular and business culture. In the arena of international commerce, they share an expectation that differences will be set... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
Chapter 11, avoid it, because it is not a pleasant experience." During his presentation, Hayes asked participants to introduce themselves and their companies to the group. The geographical and professional range of OPM graduates quickly... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
research covered the era between 1850 and 1950, when big business emerged and grew spectacularly, and when the United States became the world's largest economy. There is an underlying assumption in Chandler's work that the United States and large, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
wearing gym clothes rather than an elegant outfit or wearing red sneakers in a professional setting. Nonconforming behaviors, as costly and visible signals, can act as a particular form of conspicuous consumption and lead to positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with different approaches while working... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
extra-industry professional networks will, through normative conformity, be more likely to adopt turnkey practices; second, that the normative pressure of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
property rights by showing that both of the predicted linkages (from marginal returns to investment and from investment to revenue) exist in a single empirical setting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-007.pdf Why Do We Redistribute so Much but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered four major types of actions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
cultural differences along which societies and organizations vary. Culturally tight organizations have stricter social norms and rules of conduct, and people tend to adhere to them more strictly. There is also a greater appreciation of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a better world by celebrating diversity, disrupting gender norms and empowering differences. Hair Penalties and Other Organizational Sins: Racism Disguised as View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Abstract—To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even among trained View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne