Social Distance - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

well) to the thoughtful adoption of social media technology. And they offer guidance on how to balance the benefits of open-ended talk with the realities of strategic execution. Drawing on the experience of leaders at diverse companies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

feel more regretful. One group was asked to consider their decision from the distance of 10 years in the future; the other group was asked to predict how they would feel about their purchase the following day. “We don't have to wait 40... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

CEO search," adds Khurana. "For example, a candidate's loyalty and trust would immediately become suspect should his or her employer, investors, or the public learn that discussions were taking place with another company. Using a third party puts View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

and floor workers. (In gauging the factors that determine whether a firm adopts any given technology, the researchers considered geographic variables that might affect the cost of acquiring the technology—the firm's distance from the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

life and gives consumers the product quality they expect. Observing this decision from a distance and out of context, a skeptic might question Gotham Greens’ commitment to its purpose, concluding it had chosen a commercial logic over a... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

the end of the year. Venture funding in a socially distanced world Discouraged entrepreneurs shouldn’t put away their pitch decks yet. For one thing, funding commitments are still outpacing those of past... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

Will you ever again step onto a crowded elevator without hesitation? Reach for a doorknob without concern (or gloves)? Easing social distancing restrictions might reopen businesses, but as long as memories... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

small firms, not-for-profits, and social enterprises have successfully leveraged deep metaphors to solve a wide variety of marketing problems. Marketing Metaphoria should convince you that everything consumers think and do is influenced... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

a chain. Our results are robust to alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

that technology diffuses slower to locations that are farther away from adoption leaders. This effect is stronger across rich countries and also when measuring distance along the south-north dimension. A simple theory of human... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

distance (how social hierarchies affect negotiation), context of communication (the degree to which messages inherit meaning from the setting in which they are delivered), and different conceptions of time... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

happy hours, and if possible, having a physically distancing picnic. Social connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

businesses often have less than 20 days’ worth. While forecasts vary, many public health experts don’t expect the coronavirus outbreak to subside for at least eight weeks, assuming that social distancing and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

inner workings of his own employer. “Vocal silence allows organizations to instill rather than impose morals” Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education chronicles Anteby's journey as a junior faculty member and observes how the School... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

in multiple innovations, including smartphones, search, online purchasing, and social media. Lead director John Thompson led the board committee that chose insider Satya Nadella as its next CEO. Nadella completely changed Microsoft’s... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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