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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
on channeling the keen interest many of us have in financial stability.” There is consensus within the group that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policy makers, and investors have underestimated risks. These... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
punish the person socially, such as by assigning them boring tasks. These results held across age groups and cultures. (One study compared the perceptions of American participants with those of participants... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
sessions to integration and distillation of insights. Principle 3: Breakthrough Negotiators Are Masters Of Process Design Control of the process yields control over outcomes. Skilled negotiators think hard about the impact of process on View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
wisely to meet those needs. The board, a diverse group of almost fifty MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education graduates, works with the School’s leadership to develop programs and resources for alumni. Over the past year, and under the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
to several common organizational problems. For example, they examine how a majority group's perception that a minority group or individual is performing poorly can mushroom into a self-fulfilling cycle of... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
initiatives to help disenfranchised groups often focus on either race or gender. For example, Obama last year launched My Brother's Keeper, an initiative to create opportunities for boys and young men of color. There is no equivalent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios. “The perception of wage fairness affects purchasing intentions” "The perception of wage fairness affects purchasing intentions," says Bhavya Mohan, a doctoral student in the... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
the Cluster Mapping Project, uses statistical techniques to profile the performance over time of regional economies in the U.S., with a special focus on clusters. Clusters are geographically concentrated groups of interconnected... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
Stadtmuseum. Dusseldorf: Hatje Cantz Verlag (Forthcoming) (Forthcoming) Abstract The article examines how a group of leading Düsseldorf businessmen during the first wave of globalization prior to 1914 helped to leverage the artistic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
government are at their lowest ever," says Buell. "There is a danger that that disgust can lead to disengagement. Showing the ways in which government materially affects people's lives through its actions has the potential to improve View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
LGBTQ community opportunities in the cable, media, and entertainment industries. His research suggests that managers' perceptions of their subordinates are affected by the composition of the work group of... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
meeting such benchmarks; and (ii) senior managers' preoccupation with meeting earnings benchmarks might be based at least partly on career concerns. Download paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-014.pdf A Perceptions Framework for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
learning; when staff believe that support for learning-oriented culture, practices, and leadership is low, they may be less willing or able to share ideas. Purpose: We examined how staff perception of organizational support for learning... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
My Misperceptions about HBS
here. I'll never forget the moment that my perceptions of HBS turned around: my interview day. I expected most of the people I met to be quite pretentious and arrogant—to be sizing up each others' chances of getting accepted. However, I... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
often blindsided by their classmates’ differing interpretation of characters or situations. In other words, your Antigone may not be my Antigone. “The most important thing that leaders need to know how to do is understand individual people and View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
political and economic elite help explain the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity within each of them. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17852 Expertise Dissensus: A Multi-level Model of Teams'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
paper, "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship," Nanda looks at how entrepreneurial activity is affected across various groups of individuals when a tax reform increases the cost of financing a business.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
experiment that ultimately enabled consultants at Boston Consulting Group to reclaim at least a small portion of their lives from the onslaught of communication technology. In her initial work Perlow chose the goal of engaging a... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
perceptions that we bring to most issues. We always have our own views. But the key issue here is the difference between hypotheses and assumptions. In practice it is difficult to assume complete ignorance. But it is essential to try to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
effectiveness information. These findings could spur more effective labeling policies that facilitate healthier choices, do not decrease overall beverage purchases, and are publicly accepted. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54008 2018... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne