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- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
Reading: Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal Creating a Global Business Code What do you think about this research? Have you been unjustly punished for the sins... View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
plans to improve their relationships but fail to follow them due to their inability to put themselves in their partners' shoes. I have watched thoughtful managers planning new incentive schemes to motivate their employees, only to find the employees focused more on... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
Loewenstein shed some light on the discrepancy. In each experiment, the researchers asked participants to answer a list of questions to indicate whether they had engaged in various sensitive activities—looking at pornographic material, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Wells states, “I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or terrorist financing, or secreted money from blatant bribes.” Maybe so. But the ethics of tax cheats are... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Actions That Benefit Others Authors: F. Gino, S. Ayal, and D. Ariely Publication: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (forthcoming) Abstract In three experiments, we propose and find that individuals cheat more when others can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
already been litigated in the press and before Congressional committees. My interest is in the 5,300 who were fired. Were they fired for cheating to meet goals for customer loyalty (and ironically risking customer loyalty in the process)?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
Deflategate, the pro football controversy that spawned a media frenzy, Twitter war, even a presidential joke, has a new claim to fame as a Harvard Business School case study. At the heart of Deflategate is the question of whether the New England Patriots View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Product is Worth the Price (37,030) Are consumers more likely to buy if they see the price before viewing the product? Uma Karmarkar and colleagues scan the brains of shoppers to find out. How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
sure that last part is still true. I give opinions about money, politics, and things in the news but a staple of the program is about how men can achieve their sexual, emotional, or practical goals with women: how to handle the wife, girlfriend, or female boss, or how... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://hbr.org/product/rough-justice-stuart-eizenstat-and-holocaust-era-asset-restitution-b/an/914026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-001 Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance The widespread cheating scandal that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
happened to be less effective than the tribal tricks of the trade—tricks that the employees hid from the higher-ups, thus thwarting the goal of learning by observing. Bernstein says that there was no ill-intent or cheating behind such... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
lead people to more likely engage in further unethical behavior. In five experiments, participants reflected on their past unethical behavior, and then completed a task designed to measure network density. Those who cheated more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
approaches that redesign specific incentives, tasks, and decisions to reduce temptations to cheat in the environment. This paper explores how these approaches can change behavior. We argue that integrating both approaches while avoiding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
is in the container. Likewise, responsible manufacturers don't have to worry about competitors cheating by putting bogus ingredients into their products. So the agency's work for consumer protection also acts as a protection for ethical... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
now my partner in life and love. It feels a bit like cheating in the game of dating when you end up with your best friend. I knew that I loved James before we went out; the fun part is discovering that I would love him even more than I... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commencement 2012 Address | About
for being overly generous and letting people take advantage of him. He always smiled and responded that although his clients were richer as a result, they were probably slept less well because they had cheated him. Even at home, we’d see... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
seeking innovation. The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications By: Luca, Michael, Patrick Rooney, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—In recent years, there have been a number of high profile scandals on college campuses, ranging from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Abstract—People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance reflects their true ability.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne