Polarization - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2011
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Talking Past Each Other?: Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change—the climate change “convinced” and the climate change “skeptical” logics—are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Cognition and Thinking; News; Conflict and Resolution

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Organizational psychologists have long held that monitoring workers saps them of their autonomy and thereby reduces their effectiveness. Yet technology has intensified such surveillance in recent years: Managers now track everything from clinicians’ handwashing to... View Details

08 Jun 2007
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Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal

Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer

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Placement - Doctoral

Placement: Princeton University, Economics Department, Post-doctoral fellow (2020-2022); University College London, Assistant Professor (2022) Dissertation: Essays on Belief Formation and Political Polarization Advisors: Matthew Rabin ,... View Details

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Marketing - Faculty & Research

on open-source LLMs and develop a new language model that simultaneously makes content more engaging while maintaining a preferred editorial stance. Our model achieves this by modifying content characteristics strongly associated with View Details

March 2012
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Fixing What's Wrong with U. S. Politics

By: David A. Moss

In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; System; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States

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10 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

As another election season approaches, American politics feels more polarized than ever, with racial tensions flaring in an uncertain economy. And a recent study parsing newly available data shows how a landmark Civil Rights-era law may... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Apr 2025 Economist Can the Euro Go Global? Re: Elisabeth Kempf 16 Apr 2025 WalletHub Best Bankruptcy Credit Cards Re: Samuel Antill 11 Apr 2025 VoxEU Political Polarization and Finance By: Elisabeth Kempf More Faculty News HBS Working... View Details

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Designing Productive Zones of Privacy

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Field Experiments; Design; Organizational Design; Performance

26 Sep 2023
Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

properly and understand better the moving target of the digital world. This is a more polarized view vis-à-vis the pre-pandemic one of Adner et al. (2019, p. 254), who earlier deemed that while digitalization “does not require us to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Less Info Happiness levels are plummeting in the United States. People disagree about why this slump is happening – technology, polarized culture, the economy, politics, etc. – but we all know it’s happening. Journeying toward greater... View Details

18 Jun 2024
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What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

identity exists. Women generally perceive non-binary people more favorably than men. Women expressed less discomfort with non-binary people and were more likely to believe the non-binary identity existed than men. “There’s clear View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

almost microscopic way," Joe Badaracco notes. "There might be a situation where people are polarized around two choices, for example, and a leader might propose a third path. Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping... View Details

Keywords: Management

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Christina Byrd

hundred students per class to its polar opposite: UC Berkeley. I was expected to go to a religiously affiliated school or to stay in the South – I left both.” Christina became a political economy major. “I thought I wanted to be in... View Details

19 Sep 2023
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What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

It was a ground-breaking achievement on several levels. Last month India became only the fourth nation to land successfully on the moon and the first to land and deploy a rover in the southern polar region, an area of keen scientific... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

13 Jul 2021
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Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

in-group." Past research shows negativity spread fastest in contexts that involved two or more rival or competing groups, where negative emotions were more likely to prevail. The polarized nature of American political discourse,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting

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Profiles - MBA

human-computer interaction, data engineering, generative AI, venture capital, consumer technology Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: At a time when political polarization seems to be the new normal,... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Case | Faculty Research The case gives readers an overview of key factors of doing business in Brazil, including Brazil’s economic transformation since its colonial years until 2023, when leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in for his third term,... View Details

05 Jul 2022
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Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

facing new challenges posed by the rise of what John referred to as the “tribal spectrum” and the polarization that accompanies it. Perhaps the most significant question raised by respondents was that of balance. To what extent should a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

achievement, noting how "photography has benefited from an application which places picture-making on an unparalleled level of popularity, and opens exciting new vistas for future development." 77 EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY... View Details

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