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  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

stainless steel industry, invested both time and capital in ensuring physical and psychological safety for employees during the pandemic. Multiple town hall meetings were held to share the company's plans... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • November 2013 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Tobacco; Smoking; Cigarettes; Electronic Cigarettes; Cancer; Lung; Lorillard; Philip Morris; Safety; Technological Innovation; Conflict of Interests; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing; Health; Advertising; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry
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  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

psychological biases and errors that reduce the accuracy of human perception, sense making, estimation, and attribution.1 These can hinder the human ability to analyze failure effectively. People tend to be more comfortable attending to... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

state lasts, we may see a shift away from static organizational structures toward dynamic team forms. This only works well under conditions of psychological safety, when leaders have made it crystal clear that every team member is welcome... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

attending industry conferences, visiting their companies, interviewing them, developing a practitioner advisory team, and maybe spending some time working as a practitioner. (For his own part, Toffel worked as director of environment, health, and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 19 Dec 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

Good Habit Psychological nudges can be a cost-effective way for governments to get citizens to do the right thing. Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful Research at Harvard Business School takes a unique approach to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

motivate people to take action-different actions, but at least action. Are You A Pessimist? If you're a pessimist, you tend to focus on safety and security. Pessimism drives you to seek and find safe havens, establish clear advantages,... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

participation: uncertainty about the value of the IP being offered, value dissipating effects of competition for the knowledge, and costs associated with ex-post lawsuits claiming expropriation. Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

safety in popular media increased nearly three-fold in a five-year period beginning in 2013. The presence of psychological safety, according to a number of research projects, favorably affects things such as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 1 Sep 1979
  • Conference Presentation

Rape and Physical Attractiveness: Judgements Concerning the Likelihood of Victimization

By: W. DeJong, Teresa M. Amabile and M. L. Stubbs
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Attitudes; Safety; Personal Characteristics
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  • June 2013
  • Article

What Is Privacy Worth?

By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Valuation; Ethics; Identity
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  • February 1992 (Revised September 2003)
  • Supplement

Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-2)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Bronwyn Halliday and Michael Santoro
Beech-Nut's CEO must decide what to do. Asks students to consider how much evidence of impurity should be enough to trigger management's acknowledgment of a problem. What are the cognitive and attitudinal factors and pressures that lead people to persist in beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Risk Management; Attitudes; Nutrition; Cognition and Thinking; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction

By: Carlos Medina and Jorge Tamayo
We use data for Medellín, Colombia, to assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual’s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide... View Details
Keywords: Security; Life Satisfaction; Crime and Corruption; Housing; Safety; Perception; Colombia
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  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

hypothetical fires. A garment factory in a Third World country with minimal governmental regulatory oversight burns down, killing half of the three hundred women and children employed there; it subsequently becomes clear that the factory's owner failed repeatedly to... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 2012
  • Article

Exploring Re-Identification Risks in Public Domains

By: Aditi Ramachandran, Lisa Singh, Edward Porter and Frank Nagle
While re-identification of sensitive data has been studied extensively, with the emergence of online social networks and the popularity of digital communications, the ability to use public data for re-identification has increased. This work begins by presenting two... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Analytics and Data Science; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

Role of Psychological Safety (revised) Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract Prior work examining the relationship of varied experience (i.e., the concurrent completion of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

Understanding Psychological Safety in Healthcare and Education Organizations: A Comparative Perspective By: Edmondson, Amy C., Monica Higgins, Sara J. Singer, and Jennie Weiner Abstract—Psychological View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

Managing Errors in Organizations The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Paul Verdin Abstract—Despite discussion in the management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei Abstract—Psychological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

across several measures, including professional status (the hierarchy of each team), psychological safety (the extent to which team members felt comfortable speaking up about work-related issues), and leader... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

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