blindness - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an important role in explaining individual success in problem... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

companies, why do employers—or at least supervisors—apparently tolerate the practice by looking the other way? A: Managers, executives, and supervisors are mostly well aware of the practice. They often turn a blind eye toward it because... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

Business School’s Ranjay Gulati looks at how it tackled the challenge. He identifies several important takeaways for other multinationals: Give the local organizations clout, embrace creative abrasion, build strong functions, and eliminate strategic View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

assumption that his student pilot was a harmless fellow, but he was not blind to other possibilities. In negotiation, it's healthy to second-guess your impressions of the other party. Some new discoveries may be pleasant; others, less so.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

change, we are now debating whether we should raise the age at which these transfers kick in. We can learn a lot from the fact that the tags we use in our tax code are so closely related to having lower income-earning ability. When we give a tax break to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

yourself to identify blind spots and discover what makes you defensive; get genuine support that helps you gain a broader perspective; and shift your mind-set from one that says, "You need to change" to one that asks, "What... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

product and the activities associated with making and selling it. Selling becomes a function of individual "heroic" efforts, not a scalable platform for profitable growth. Equally important, this inhibits adaptive learning—a crucial requirement for a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly unambiguous title: View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

seen the inner city as a separate part of the economic landscape. Almost always, he said, entrepreneurs would rather borrow money from a leading local bank than from a community development bank. "The challenge [is] to connect the inner city to the other part of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

note presents statistics on private equity exits and discusses important issues relating to the most common exit routes. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/private-equity-exits/an/213112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-041 salaUno: Eliminating Needless... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

stockstudioX] Related Reading: Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators Why White-Collar Criminals Commit Their Crimes Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think What do you think of this research? Share your insights below. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

bias blinds them to local issues. And companies often fail to adequately check the actions of their local managers. Standardized Products, Universal Values? Global Product Standardization? Although there is a general perception that... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply chain process. They... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

28, 2008 While scholars can describe how people make decisions, and can envision how much better decision-making could be, they still have little understanding of how to help people overcome blind spots and behave optimally. Do Friends... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

you think? Share your insights in the comments below. References:Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (New York: Delacorte Press, 2013). Jennifer Maloney and Lauren Weber, "Coke’s Elusive... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

to enlarge The researchers recruited a separate panel of 60 seasoned angel investors to watch the videos and code them across several measures, including physical attractiveness—rating the entrepreneurs on a scale of 1 (very unattractive) to 7 (very attractive). The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

Supply Chain Management Moving Toward New Theory" has crossed my desk. I receive these occasionally with a request for my blind (authors unknown to me) review for a juried academic journal with the equally unfortunate title... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

advantage of their weaknesses and blind spots. First, it helps to evaluate whether a competitor will be motivated to respond. Second, it identifies whether that competitor has the ability to do so effectively. As coauthors Clayton M.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

blind spots regarding language to something as simple as managing individuals' airtime in meetings. Regardless of how it's done, it has to start with managers being trained and held accountable for their organizations' language and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

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