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- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
income, and Sen. Bernie Sanders has pushed for eliminating undergraduate tuition and fees at public colleges and universities. Di Maggio is careful to note that his team did not study the costs of any debt-relief proposal. But it’s clear... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of Teaming
will take care of itself. This model focused on the team as an entity, looking largely within the well-defined bounds of a team to explain its performance. Other research, notably conducted by MIT Professor Deborah Ancona, showed that how... View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
billion loss, the largest in its then-106-year history (Brooks, 1993). As this example illustrates, how a company is managed and led can make it harder—or easier—for individual employees to act ethically and for the organisation as a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
the problem. He has put his finger on the two main obstacles to major change in the current system, insurance company opposition and higher taxes. He suggests that insurance companies, who have acted in good faith to respond to incentives... View Details
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
want from the airline.” The strategy also made good business sense because after all, Bastian told his managers and executives, “If you take care of your people, they take care of your customers.” In... View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
even excluding COVID-19 deaths) Mental health crises Secondary health problems from neglect/postponement of routine/preventative care Mass unemployment Dining, entertainment, arts, tourism industries—the whole experiential... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 23 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?
ratings have been shown not to be correct?’” The results suggest that the answer is yes, especially given improvements since the financial crisis, Sikochi says. The motivation to avoid high-profile failures has given way to signs that rating agencies are View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
scenarios, and prepare to adapt to whatever unfolds. It is important for leaders to think and act with an outside-in perspective, cultivating a 360-degree view of the dynamics within their organizations as well as of those of the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
control, questionable organizational (particularly human resource management) practices, and human behavior traits in general. As “Former Employee” put it, “much of the language in the Visions and Values about caring for team members and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
limbic system of your brain. And then you deliver that information into your prefrontal cortex and you decide how to act on it. And once you understand how that process works, which is what we're writing about in this book. Look, this... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 20 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Positive Professional Image
non-verbal behavior (appearance, demeanor), verbal cues (vocal pitch, tone, and rate of speech, grammar and diction, disclosures), and demonstrative acts (citizenship, job performance). My research suggests that, in addition to using... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
learning from past failures. Balancing Competing Forces The Everest case suggests that leaders need to engage in a delicate balancing act with regard to nurturing confidence, dissent, and commitment within their organizations. First,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
should be careful about the extent to which they engage in informal exchanges both within and outside their organizations. "Once you start engaging in these informal tit-for-tat exchanges, it may increase your susceptibility to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
comes with “co-creation” seriously, with younger generations of employees ready to be judged on their creativity as much as their expertise. New societal expectations. Roundtable participants said that Millennials and members of Generation Z seek purpose and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
final wave of migration after the Vietnam War in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Under the Amerasian Homecoming Act (AHA), some 25,000 children of Vietnamese mothers and US fathers stationed there during the war immigrated to the United... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
employee departures. Company officials kept a careful count of departing workers and doled out bonuses to managers based on the number of workers in their groups that left. Managers and workers alike exhibit stress Many managers,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)
collected data on their workforce diversity but have chosen to publicly withhold it. Importantly, the researchers find that if a company decides to disclose their own workforce diversity data, the act of revelation may additionally harm... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 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.