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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
social cues from reputation stakeholders and from prominent third-party bureaucratic actors can serve as symbolic signals that can affect the decision making of regulatory agencies. Our findings suggest that while View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
the socially constructed nature of helping behavior. That is, the parties must establish and maintain a helping frame for their interaction, especially when help-givers are high-status external leaders. Second, the model specifies that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
asset-testing, and history-dependence, remain rare in practice. Where large gaps between theory and policy remain, the difficult question is whether policymakers need to learn more from theorists, or the other way around. Neural Mechanisms of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
four non-mutually-exclusive types: constitutive norms; social purposes; relational comparisons with other social categories; and cognitive models. Contestation refers to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
toward a goal of dodge detection (i.e., Is this person answering the question?) but rather toward a goal of social evaluation (i.e., Do I like this person?). Listeners were not blind to all dodge attempts, however. Dodge detection...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Social Behavior By: Crockett, Molly J., and Amy Cuddy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49863 October 2015 Journal of Personality and Social...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
video clips our team has created start to be used in classrooms, at HBS and in a few other institutions. These clips are really cool. I taught a class on corporate social responsibility in an executive education course simply using four...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015 International Encyclopedia of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace identifies those factors, including what...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
PublicationsiPhones for Friends, Refrigerators for Family: How Products Prime Social Networks Authors:Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Influence (forthcoming). Abstract We show that priming consumers with products...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
Confined to specialist journals and books, business history research too often lacks the impact it should have on the research and practice of business management and the social sciences, according to the editors of the newly published...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
articulation of a secular basis for social organization, rooted in commerce, and their insistence that political economy trumped theology as the underpinning for peace and prosperity within and among nations. I argue that the Italian...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
alleviates the inefficiency. In the experiment, providing social information on success is ineffective. While voters with higher cognitive abilities are more likely to be de-biased by such information, most...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
answering the question?) but rather towards a social evaluation goal (Do I like this person?). Listeners were not blind to all dodge attempts, however. Dodge detection increased when listeners' attention was diverted from View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
and resources. Based on the work of pioneering sociologist Richard Hackman, regularly relaunching can increase the likelihood of success of a team by 30 percent or more. Blanding: You make a distinction between cognitive trust and...
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by Michael Blanding
- August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Tom Quinn
As autonomy became a more significant part of modern life – most notably in autonomous vehicles (AVs), such as Teslas – ethical debates about whether and how to impart ethics to machines heated up. Utilitarians pointed out that autonomous vehicles crashed much less...
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Cost vs Benefits;
Judgments;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technology Adoption;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cognition and Thinking;
Technological Innovation;
Auto Industry;
Technology Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Europe;
North and Central America;
Oceania;
South America
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Tom Quinn. "Automating Morality: Ethics for Intelligent Machines." Harvard Business School Case 324-007, August 2023. (Revised December 2023.)
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
large firms often encounter difficulties in formulating and committing changes due to the complexity in firms' activities. Beyond cognitive limitations, perhaps the most intriguing type of failure is when managers fully understand the...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours Author:Tarun Khanna Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract China and India, occupied by a third of the world's population, are undergoing View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it...
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Dina Gerdeman