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- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
already know you can do well is difficult. What are some of the clues that would indicate your need for achievement is blocking your path to career growth? If the main emotion you experience when you accomplish a task is relief, not... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
negatively valenced emotions (Experiment 2). The relationships between anxiety and advice seeking and anxiety and advice taking are mediated by self-confidence; anxiety lowers self-confidence, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
States (US), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of their careers. Women find themselves in a unique bind just... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
momentous. Since we launched in December 2013, we have already seen five of our formerly homeless artists gain housing; not simply because of this new opportunity to earn income, but because being validated—being shown their talent is valued rather than zeroing in on... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
theory of domain-contingent inequality aversion to explain this finding: we argue that workers view salary and equity as two domains and are more inequality averse in the equity domain. Inequality in equity has a negative asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
buildup of such silence, she finds, can be catastrophic as fewer new ideas emerge, unexpressed negative emotion festers, managers and executives don’t get the vital information they need, productivity... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
salary negotiations, we hear women say, "I don't want people to think I'm too aggressive." But if you flip that around, the perception of you when you don't negotiate is much more negative than the perception of you when you do... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
though it is always great to have high status, but it can lead to negative feelings of entitlement,” Norton says. The study included other findings about unruly passengers: The majority of disruptive passengers, 72.49 percent, were men.... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common evolutionary heritage. These four drives—the “ABCD” of human motivation—are: Acquire. Obtain scarce goods,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common evolutionary heritage. These four drives—the “ABCD” of human motivation—are: Acquire. Obtain scarce goods,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
friends, and strangers, even when costly. Why do people devote their resources to helping others? In this chapter, we examine whether engaging in prosocial behavior promotes subjective well-being, which encompasses greater positive affect, lower View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
Governance) company rooted in natural resource conservation as part of our DNA, it was a really hard, emotional decision for us,” Puri says, “but we’re still using plastic boxes ten years later because there isn’t an alternative available... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
a natural member of this group. Tony's story strongly suggests that the most fundamental inner resource of leaders is a peculiar, negative skill. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are more View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
we’ll hire it again. If it does a crummy job, we “fire” it and look for something else to solve the problem. Jobs are multifaceted. They’re never simply about function; they have powerful social and emotional dimensions. And the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context, and then assesses its impact on its users. The platform studies facial and emotion recognition and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
globally, San Francisco may be the proverbial canary in the coal mine, displaying the negative effects of such rapid increases in wealth on a city's culture. "This is a place where the effects of inequality appear to be heightened... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
most prominent explanations for the onset and occurrence of civil conflict—variation in economic conditions—and apply it to the intensity and dynamics of civil conflict. Using an instrumental variables strategy and a rich set of empirical models, we find that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne