Publications

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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data

By: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos and Michael I. Norton

Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries,... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Business Cycles; Welfare; Perception; Global Range

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On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc

By: Daniel Malter

This paper identifies the causal symbolic effect of status on the prices organizations charge for their products. I exploit the classification of the châteaux of the Médoc, which sorted 61 wine producers into five growth classes in 1855, as a fixed hierarchical symbol... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Status; Quality Signals; Conspicuous Consumption; Wine Classification Of 1855; Grand Cru; Status and Position; Quality; Reputation; Price; France

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10 Oct 2010
News

Power Poses: Certain positions boost testosterone & confidence

Front Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial markets

This paper estimates the effect of presentation of information on financial markets, using quasi-random variation in prominent "front page" positioning of news on the Bloomberg... View Details

15 Mar 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Initiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors’ Social Position

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

2011
Chapter

A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and David A. Thomas

Keywords: Research; Organizations; Diversity

July 2010
Teaching Note

Metabical: Positioning and Communications Strategy for a New Weight Loss Drug (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham

Teaching note to case #4240. View Details

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2012
Book

Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation

By: Karen Golden-Biddle and Jane E. Dutton

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08 Aug 2019
News

Shohoz Celebrates 5th Anniversary With New Brand Positioning

Article

Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics.

By: Kristin L. Leimgruber, Adrian F. Ward, Jane Widness, Michael I. Norton, Kristina R. Olson, Kurt Gray and Laurie R. Santos

The breadth of human generosity is unparalleled in the natural world, and much research has explored the mechanisms underlying and motivating human prosocial behavior. Recent work has focused on the spread of prosocial behavior within groups through paying-it-forward,... View Details

Keywords: Prosociality; Reciprocity; Cooperation; Gratitude; Affect; Behavior

Future Positive - Managing the Future of Work

to embrace change and prepare for the future. Read Featured Article Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think Joseph B. Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman & Alice de Chalendar MAY-JUN 2019 | Harvard Business Review Many... View Details

2003
Chapter

New Knowledge Creation: A Study in Positive Organizing

By: F Lee, A Caza, A. Edmondson and S. Thomke

Keywords: Organizational Design; Knowledge; Creativity

2024
Working Paper

“If You’re Not There… You’re Not There”: How Art Market Platforms Induce Status Anxiety to Coerce Participation

By: James Riley and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan

This paper, an 18-month ethnographic investigation of international art fairs (IAFs), shows how market platforms can have a coercive effect, inducing sellers (i.e., art galleries) to participate despite ambivalence over their value and anxiety over the process by which... View Details

Keywords: Market Participation; Status and Position; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Fine Arts Industry

2006
Other Unpublished Work

Positional Limits to Competitive Allocation: Evidence from Corporate Takeovers

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Keywords: Management; Equality and Inequality

19 Jun 2015
News

When a sudden boost in status at work isn't all good

October 2011
Case

Gene Sequencing: Staking a Position in an Expanding Industry

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara Aspinall and Phillip Andrews

Towards the end of 2010, companies in the gene sequencing industry were pushing aggressive R&D programs to develop technologies and products in the race to sequence the entire human genome at a cost of $1,000. It remained to be seen when the "$1,000 genome" would... View Details

Keywords: Genetics; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Competition; Venture Capital; Biotechnology Industry

December 2010
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Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting

By: S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna and Douglas J. Skinner

Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are critical features of a GAAP shaped by market forces.... View Details

Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Standards; International Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Reporting

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