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- October 1971 (Revised September 1983)
- Case
Sturdivant Electric Corp.
By: Richard L. Nolan
A unit manager on a field computer installation job is faced with recurring conflict between a programmer and his immediate supervisor.
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Planning;
Rank and Position;
Problems and Challenges;
Conflict and Resolution;
Attitudes;
Jobs and Positions;
Management Teams;
Managerial Roles;
Public Relations Industry;
Computer Industry
Nolan, Richard L. "Sturdivant Electric Corp." Harvard Business School Case 172-123, October 1971. (Revised September 1983.)
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- January 1982
- Article
A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation
By: T. M. Amabile and A. H. Glazebrook
Two studies were conducted to demonstrate a bias toward negativity in evaluations of persons or their work in particular social circumstances. In Study 1, subjects evaluated materials written by peers. Those working under conditions that placed them in low status...
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Social Psychology;
Status and Position;
Prejudice and Bias;
Performance Evaluation;
Situation or Environment;
Perception;
Attitudes
Amabile, T. M., and A. H. Glazebrook. "A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 18 (January 1982): 1–22.
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
a business perspective - with a product, a customer base, and quality issues - and has helped instill that attitude in his staff. "It's all about marketing and having your own image," he says. Mulroney is pragmatic, not boastful, when he...
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- 14 May 2018
- Blog Post
Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers
Fortunately, changing employer attitudes have opened new avenues, both for Reboot Accel in particular and women in general. "Three years ago, many doors were shut," Flynn says. "But now there's increasing receptivity to...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
would describe people's attitude for entrepreneurship in Indonesia in 2010 as mostly unaware and confused. What are you doing? Why are you starting a company? It was very, very unusual for somebody who had potential to start a company....
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- 2011
- Working Paper
'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications
By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich and Michael I. Norton
Why do low-income individuals often oppose redistribution? We hypothesize that an aversion to being in "last place" undercuts support for redistribution, with low-income individuals punishing those slightly below themselves to keep someone "beneath" them. In laboratory...
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Wages;
Surveys;
Wealth and Poverty;
Behavior;
Income;
Research;
Rank and Position;
Attitudes;
Personal Characteristics;
Economics
Kuziemko, Ilyana, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael I. Norton. "'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17234, August 2011.
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
at HBS.” Simons saw entrepreneurship as “the best path to translate breakthrough research into something that can help people.” He launched Akouos (Greek, for “to listen”) with a realistic attitude about risk and a flexible definition of...
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Deb Blagg
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
own perspective on the city’s evolution as an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Emanuel, for example, cited an historic event that fostered the city’s resilient, civic-minded culture: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Having the can-do attitude...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the forces affecting attitudes and behaviors in each generation and analyzes the implications of organizational and technological changes for their future. Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
commercializing a technology that belongs to the company. This attitude is shortsighted, as it neglects the fact that there is typically a long road between a promising technology and a viable product. Without an adequate share of the...
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- Profile
Terrance McGuire
“I just felt compelled to hang with these guys who I thought were doing important things,” McGuire said. After his stint in Chicago at GTCR, McGuire headed back to Boston to join another successful venture firm, Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co. There, he embraced...
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- July 2011
- Teaching Note
Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 410062.
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Ruth Cenat
businesswoman from early on. I think the moment that captures my attitude back when I was 13 was when I showed up at a McDonald’s booth at a job fair with a resume, briefcase, and business suit.
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
underestimate our ability to make more out of those we have .Stretching is a learned set of attitudes and skills that comes from a simple but powerful shift from wanting more resources to embracing and acting on the possibilities of our...
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- 29 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Emerging Into Singapore
humidity on any given day, having a "big hair, don't care" attitude is key to survival. I am looking forward to spending the next couple of weeks exploring this region further; from business and leisure trips with great company,...
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- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
but which is pronounced “Do It”—captures the can-do attitude of the people who work here. They spend every day building online tools that are beautiful, welcoming, and highly useful to the citizens of Boston. Want to rewrite a webpage...
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Consulting
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
the book is also a contribution to thinking about competitiveness in general. In one part of the book, you and your coauthors write: "What really ails Japan has to do with the nation's deeply ingrained attitudes toward...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
attitudes toward these matters may help explain the reasoned responses to this month's questions, responses surprisingly devoid of emotion. Granted, the emphasis of the column was on how the Government should act, not whether. But...
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by Jim Heskett