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- 2008
- Chapter
Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model
By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, and Herbert Gintis. "Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model." In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, edited by Paul J. Zak. Princeton University Press, 2008.
- March 2012
- Article
The Incentive Bubble
By: Mihir Desai
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
Desai, Mihir. "The Incentive Bubble." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
analysis and framework in this paper can help broaden the understanding of accounting's globalization. Read the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1875682 The Preference for Potential Authors:Zakary L. Tormala, Jayson Jia, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
e-book market. New regulations have shaken up the e-book landscape in China, intensifying competition and prompting writers to work harder, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Feng Zhu. Book contracts that give... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- October 2008
- Article
It's Time to Make Management a True Profession
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation
Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "It's Time to Make Management a True Profession." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
Smith's two main works—The Wealth of Nations (WN) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS)—show him to be a brilliant economist and arguably a brilliant psychologist, but he was never fully able to bring the economics and psychology... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Complexity (3) Conflict Management (4) Conflict and Resolution (13) Conflict of Interests (1) Construction (1) Consumer Behavior (173) Contracts (7) Cooperation (3) Cooperative Ownership (1) Copyright (2) Core Relationships (1) Corporate... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
sustained, recipients will flee these threats or otherwise reshape their network to attenuate the negative psychological effects of the threat. Analyzing four years of peer feedback and social network data from an agribusiness company in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
The Credit Suisse/Gerson Lehrman Group Alliance
By: Robert G. Eccles and Laura Winig
The equity research department of Credit Suisse and the expert network firm of Gerson Lehrman Group, historically competitors, have established a strategic alliance which both believe will give them a competitive advantage. Under the leadership of its head of equity... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Financial Crisis; Investment Banking; Innovation and Invention; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and Laura Winig. "The Credit Suisse/Gerson Lehrman Group Alliance." Harvard Business School Case 409-046, March 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
power has on the psychology of those in power: It makes them overconfident and susceptible to hubris, and it makes them more self-centered and insensitive to others,” Battilana says. And if a CEO can’t or won’t cultivate humility and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
divisions, and directly in the social contract between all employees and the overall firm. Think of it as seeking the tension of respectful competition in all relationships. Keeping all these relationships in balance is much easier to say... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
earned paychecks for goods and services, pledge our lives to another person in marriage, cast a ballot for someone who will represent our interests. We rely on laws and contracts as safety nets, but even those systems are ultimately built... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
according to Magnus Thor Torfason, an assistant professor in Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit. His article for Social Psychological & Personality Science, "Here's a Tip: Prosocial Gratuities Are Linked to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
had handled the account to find out the concerns Impress had had before the conflict escalated. She arranged to offer Impress a few perks in a new contract as a show of good faith. She asked the president of another RLX client, who knew... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders
By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
Farre-Mensa, Joan. "Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders." 2010.
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
high-stakes player contracts involving millions of dollars. He intuitively understood that emotions were an important factor in dealing with people as passionate as athletes. "The last thing I wanted to do was create an excuse for a... View Details
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
without realizing it Bazerman draws on the psychological study of ethical decision-making and applies it to negotiations in his recent Academy of Management Perspectives article, Bounded Ethicality and Ethical Fading in Negotiations:... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- May 2017 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
David Dao on United Airlines
By: Benjamin Edelman and Jenny Sanford
In widely circulated videos, United staff and Chicago security forcibly remove a passenger from his paid seat on an aircraft, injuring him severely. United leadership must decide how to respond to public outcry. View Details
Keywords: Crisis Management; Service Operations; Air Transportation; Contracts; Reputation; Air Transportation Industry; Chicago
Edelman, Benjamin, and Jenny Sanford. "David Dao on United Airlines." Harvard Business School Case 917-026, May 2017. (Revised March 2018.) (request a courtesy copy.)