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  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

leaders who create arcane and tedious processes can kill employee morale and cripple company performance just as quickly as an adversary who pours sand into the gas tank of a company vehicle, Thomke writes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

impact on both employees and companies, new research shows. In fact, managers who elevate others like Bradway did are more likely to hold on to valued employees, according to a study by Yuan Zou, assistant professor of business... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

responsibility, HBS has long tried to promote better business standards. Anteby's rich account reveals the surprising role of silence in HBS's process of codifying morals and values. As he describes, specifics are often left unspoken; for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

undeniable ethical failure, people experience ethical dissonance between their moral values and their behavioral misconduct. Our findings indicate that to reduce ethical dissonance, individuals use a double-distancing mechanism. Using an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521518550 In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-benefit Analysis Authors:Max Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene Publication:Perspectives on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

out that immigration can enhance the competitiveness of multinational firms. 2013 Chapter Multinational Enterprises and Incomplete Institutions: The Demandingness of Minimum Moral Standards By: Nien-he Hsieh Multinational enterprises... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

Bigger paychecks for retail employees could generate significant payoffs for employers by reducing worker theft and raising the level of moral behavior in the workforce, a new study shows. Tatiana Sandino,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

recommended) being attentive to the changes in the external environment communicating with middle managers and leading by example, motivating employees to speak, listening to customers.” Several asked whether the phenomenon in question is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

as consumers and employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices that we make more broadly as human beings (who we date, how we deal with friendships). From my research, we see when a mismatch is most likely to occur between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Moreover, moral and ethical considerations may decisively influence how the law is applied. As a result, purely technical legal advice is often inadequate. CEOs should be looking for lawyers with wisdom and the courage to push back if... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, business leaders vowed to change organizational culture to increase diversity and inclusion. Some companies established more robust employee affinity groups, others diversified the voices on... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

employees who volunteer for the effort. The initiative is launched by top management or an executive committee. The principles of Kotter's dual operating system are: Important changes are driven by many people from everywhere in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 09 Feb 2015
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Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that people think about View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

actions gradually become less clear than other memories—a phenomenon the authors of the paper call “unethical amnesia.” Moreover, forgetting wrongdoings of the past makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. “We are social beings, and our basic need for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 05 May 2011
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How Ethical Can We Be?

borrows. Why should this matter to us? Employees tell us in one way or another that the single most important characteristic of their job is "a boss who's fair," who hires, promotes, and recognizes the right people. Nearly all... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's... View Details
Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

the time Conant was recruited, the company's share price had dropped from a high of $60 in 1998 to $30. Conant took a good long look at staff morale and didn't like what he saw. "We had a toxic culture. People were understandably... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

burned out. The virtual meeting that runs back-to-back has shed light on the need for mini-breaks and recovery time. The result of the remote work environment, in some industries, is that leaders believe that employees are accessible... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson