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  • November 2022
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A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups

By: Anjali M. Bhatt, Amir Goldberg and Sameer B. Srivastava
When the social boundaries between groups are breached, the tendency for people to erect and maintain symbolic boundaries intensifies. Drawing on extant perspectives on boundary maintenance, we distinguish between two strategies that people pursue in maintaining... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Symbolic Boundaries; Organizations; Boundaries; Social Psychology; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture
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Rethinking Brand Contamination: How Consumers Maintain Distinction When Symbolic Boundaries Are Breached"

If consumers view their brands as extensions of themselves, what happens when undesirable consumers adopt these same brands? I address this question by examining an issue that is of great concern to managers of high-status brands: the rampant spread... View Details
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Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks

Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power.  This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use... View Details
  • June 2017
  • Article

Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol

By: Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia and Anat Keinan
While research on conspicuous consumption has typically analyzed how people spend money on products that signal status, we investigate conspicuous consumption in relation to time. We argue that a busy and overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has... View Details
Keywords: Status and Position; Perspective; North America; Europe
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    How Physical Spaces Shape Social Valuations

    This project focuses on the role of physical space in affecting how workers coordinate action in organizations. In the first paper from this project, I explore how physical spaces affect social valuation practices by shaping how employees demonstrate work devotion to... View Details
    • 06 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 6, 2016

    Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol By: Bellezza, Silvia, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan Abstract—While research on conspicuous consumption has typically analyzed how people spend money on products that signal status, we investigate... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Made in Italy

    HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 19 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Birth of the American Salesman

    provided political and religious groups with a way to compete against their rivals for followers. Moreover, with more fluid class boundaries than in European countries, the skills of salesmanship, especially beginning in the late... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Linard
    • 09 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

    personal lives, but they often need the help of well-managed social institutions to succeed. Leaders have several structural devices they can use to promote this balance. For example, they can balance financial and symbolic rewards for... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
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    Harvard Business School

    Care: A Multi-Method Study of Quality Improvement Collaboratives Heather M. Caruso (PhD) 2008 What We Can Gain From Losses: How Framing Affects Willingness to Collaborate with Outgroup Members Renée Richardson Gosline (DBA) 2009 The Real Value of Fakes: Dynamic View Details
    • 01 Oct 1998
    • News

    Merton Named University Professor

    other Harvard faculties. First created by the President and Fellows in 1935, the University Professorships are intended for "individuals of distinction . . . working on the frontiers of knowledge and in such a way as to cross the conventional View Details
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    Artist Support | Baker Library

    for Morse in her research laboratory. Morse also advanced a program to provide Polaroid film and equipment to emerging and established artists whose work pushed the technical and aesthetic boundaries of the medium. This pioneering effort... View Details
    • 18 Feb 2014
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    First Look: February 18

    Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

    identity crisis of sorts because their jobs and their family roles no longer allow for the authoritative (some would say patriarchal) roles of the past. To compensate for this felt emasculation on the work and home fronts, men are now obsessed with View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • 08 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 8

    69, no. 4 (December 2010) Abstract How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for—or even imagined? What forms... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 May 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

    engine for the extraordinary motivation and commitment demanded by creativity. As organizations become increasingly diverse and their boundaries flexible and amorphous, the notion of what brings people together to act as one body becomes... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 15 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15

      PublicationsThe Future of Organization Design Authors:Baldwin, Carliss Y. Publication:Journal of Organization Design Abstract The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Jun 2022
    • News

    June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

    Career Development Programs Open Boundary Press This is a book for all who are facing career and life transitions. At such junctures, our decisions require the full self, and astute thinking alone will not carry us into the new place that... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 06 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

    class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for over two centuries. But an... View Details
    • 03 Jan 2017
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    January 3, 2017

    Abstract—Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes six of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel