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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs must not surrender to feelings of hopelessness. Stressing that starting any business is nothing less than a ten-year career commitment, he explained that those ten years may well be marked by two extremes: brilliant successes (that could come View Details
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
years, Turkasset has been ahead of the curve in avoiding a government crackdown—with a customer complaint rate of only 2 to 3 percent. (For context, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the United States receives more than 6,000 complaints monthly regarding...
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Policy - Business & Environment
October 8, 2019. “Strategies (pdf),” Information Council for the Environment (ICE), 1991. Cited in “The Climate Deception Dossiers,” Union of Concerned Scientists, July 2015, p. 41. “The American Petroleum Institute’s 1998 Memo Presents a...
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- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
involving almost everyone in the company. How difficult has it been for organizations to adopt this all-in approach? A: Service profit chain concepts are deceptively simple. They require an integrated set of management initiatives to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
professor Quinn Mills dissects the other half of the artificially supported 1990s bull market in Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms. This time around, he focuses on large corporations...
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- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for a pattern of deception that may or may not be illegal. Left unaddressed in the trial were many financial transactions and...
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by Malcolm S. Salter
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
pay-as-you-go actuarial basis. The public discourse about Medicare for All is deceptively appealing. The health care program for the nation’s seniors is highly prized by Medicare beneficiaries—85 percent say they’re satisfied. Who can...
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- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
'cast' a call at some point in its life” This dance of deception was, in fact, exactly what Cohen and coauthors Dong Lou, of the London School of Economics, and HBS Professor Christopher J. Malloy later found to be occurring. The results...
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- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
misguided optimism. In truth, it is deceptively difficult to predict ex-ante the success of any union. We’re reminded of this as the Super Bowl approaches: when it comes to predicting the success of a football coach, short memories, hope,...
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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
begun investigating the impact of accounting method choices in cross-border investments. Ann Cullen: After the scandals of the past few years, the potential for brokerage research deception is obviously something the Securities and...
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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
such a catalog-like presentation is much more difficult than with a captivating commercial on television. "These are the critical attributes of the current communications revolution," Deighton concludes. "And while the new economy may be easy to enter,...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
leading and making decisions. In the book Mukunda offers specific ways to avoid making a poor candidate choice: Avoid deceptive signals. Someone who has ridden family wealth to high office, for example, may have accomplished less than...
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by Kim Girard
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
competitors' scores are increasing faster it should be a cause for alarm. Acquisition rates may be robust, but if old customers are abandoning ship as fast as new ones are coming on board, strong acquisition can give a deceptive picture...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
http://hbr.org/2011/04/why-leaders-dont-learn-from-success/ar/1 Too Guilty to Deceive: How Feeling Burdened Can Reduce Deception in Negotiation Authors:F. Gino and C. Shea Publication:In ,em>Handbook of Conflict Resolution, edited by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
Johnson is guided in all of its business practices by a deceptively simple, four-paragraph credo. One tenet reads: "We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well." We are also a leader...
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- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
deceptive veneer of familiarity, cultural gulfs and local differences often remain hidden. There is an increasingly international style of management.— John Quelch, HBS Amid these conflicting realities, however, Harvard Business School...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
experiences. Klump’s experience is a reminder of just how complicated, on a personal level, globalization and managing across cultures can be. On the one hand, the world seems small and interconnected, thanks to high-speed technology, travel, and communications. On the...
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Garry Emmons
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
protection, and could even leave companies facing accusations of greenwash—a term that describes the deceptive use of green marketing to incorrectly portray a company as environmentally friendly. Even some at News Corporation acknowledge...
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