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Current Research
By: Leslie K. John
Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.
Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
high-level business executives died three to five years earlier on average than lower-level workers at GE, and the research links the deaths to work-related stress. “What we’re beginning to understand is that life at the top isn’t that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
All over the world, people in pain turn to rituals in the face of loss—no matter if it's the death of a loved one (dressing in black, for example), the end of a relationship (burning old love letters), or the crushing defeat in a Little... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
the establishment of the U.S. homeland security hierarchy. Li's personal story is an amazing tale of success. After the death of his father, Li—at age twelve—went to work in a plastics factory. Within a decade he started his own plastics... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
more high-dosage OxyContin prescriptions, which exacerbated patients’ addictions. Meanwhile, there were more than 68,000 opioid addiction deaths in the US in 2020, nearly a 17-fold increase over the 4,000 opioid overdose View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
The technology to make soap was known for several thousand years, but the product was rarely used for personal washing, especially by Europeans who largely avoided washing with water after the Black Death in the Middle Ages, believing it... View Details
- Research Summary
Health-care Applications
Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
retention practices, notes that the new HBS note comes at a time of ongoing racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, whose death two years ago shined a light on numerous inequities faced by Black Americans,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
W. Bush to bail the company out. Even so, GM declared bankruptcy months later. Mary Barra, GM’s CEO since 2014, demonstrates the difference courage can make. Immediately after her appointment, she testified before a hostile Senate investigating committee about View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Democrats (e.g., tax breaks, minimum wage, fuel efficiency) and Republicans (e.g., death tax, border security, war on terror), rating each according to political slant. Zhu and Greenstein then identified some 4,000 articles that appeared... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
asked his staff to gather for a series of conversations about race. Two years later, when one of PwC’s own black employees was shot to death by an off-duty police officer, Ryan emailed his employees with a plea to keep talking. Yet, the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
secularization after the death of dictator Francisco Franco. Relevant. Governments can’t sway the opinion of a disinterested audience. The imagery and associations of the place need to matter to the targeted audience. A branding campaign... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
policy makers.” You Might Also Like: Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone. Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
disapproval takes the form of silence—“the death pause,” as Pixar’s Ed Catmull describes it. Improv comedy teaches us to keep an open mind, understanding that communication drives insight and that closed conversations generally fail.... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
what could have been the company's death knell as the financial crisis hit home and consumers cinched their belts. "Schultz understood that you can't lift your foot off the gas pedal when you're attempting to transform a... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
As the number of casualties from COVID-19 ballooned at an alarming rate last year, some feared that government officials were failing to report several coronavirus-related losses and the actual death toll was much higher worldwide. While... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
a GED, but no college and no job, we would make a big impact on this. We have to have the psychological armor to defend ourselves against the racism that's all around us. Neeley: George Floyd's death has reawakened corporate America to... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
A business plan predicated upon asking customers to adopt new priorities and behave differently from how they have in the past is an uphill death march through knee-deep mud. Instead of designing products and services that dictate... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
reasons. To evaluate the BTD program, the research team looked at the time spent in late-stage clinical testing, as well as data collected from the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System, which relies on reports of negative side effects ranging from headaches and nausea... View Details