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- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
than anticipated at a time when concern over inflation remains high. Government trade policy may in fact have pushed companies to move faster than they would have liked, raising the cost of relocating manufacturing operations and supply...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets...
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by Avery Forman
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Styles Analyzing and Developing Your Influence Approach Building Trust & Influencing Others Featured Exercises Identify and describe stereotypes that may bias our perceptions and impede your or others’ ability to earn people’s trust...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
world you have 50,000 entrepreneurs and hundreds of VCs, funding a wide variety of ideas, and out of that chaos come genuine breakthroughs. We really didn’t have that in the ASD field.” Plus, he figured, with so much time and money...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
procedures impedes effective action.” Wars on bureaucracy are waged and often thought to be won in non-governmental organizations. But there's a perception that the war is rarely waged or won in governments--particularly in democracies. ...
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by James L. Heskett
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Systems (4) Management Teams (51) Management (339) Managerial Roles (6) Market Design (7) Market Entry and Exit (4) Market Participation (1) Market Platforms (23) Market Timing (1) Market Transactions (3) Marketing Channels (1) Marketing...
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- 06 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers
idea, showing that the less time they gave people to examine a choice, the more likely they were to go for the newer option. “When you are under time pressure, you are even less likely to scrutinize the...
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What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
different onboarding process than men. Younger women often find it difficult to find mentors or to receive specific, actionable feedback, which are both keys to developing new skills and moving up. Mid-career women with family responsibilities often face a 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2021
- Working Paper
A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior
By: Katherine B. Coffman, Paola Ugalde Araya and Basit Zafar
Many decisions—such as what educational or career path to pursue—are dynamic in nature, with individuals receiving feedback at one point in time and making decisions later. Using a controlled experiment, with two sessions one week apart, we analyze the dynamic effects...
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Feedback;
Beliefs;
Stereotypes;
Self-assessment;
Gender Gap;
Performance;
Perception;
Gender;
Decision Making;
Behavior
Coffman, Katherine B., Paola Ugalde Araya, and Basit Zafar. "A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29382, October 2021.
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
of a hypothetical $1,000 to introduce the idea that context, history, and values shape perceptions and expectations. These phenomena can propel behaviors that can lead to circumstances improving or deteriorating-upward or downward...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
so that they can lessen the negative public perception and media scrutiny,” Luo says. “We do see an increase in their likelihood of working with female writers after #MeToo, but much less so than female producers.” In fact, among...
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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272712001028?v=s5 From Mind Perception to Mental Connection: Synchrony as a Mechanism for Social Understanding Authors:Thalia Wheatley, Olivia Kang, Carolyn Parkinson, and Christine E....
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Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Normative Judgments and Individual Essence
By: Julian De Freitas, Kevin P. Tobia, George E. Newman and Joshua Knobe
A growing body of research has examined how people judge the persistence of identity over
time—that is, how they decide that a particular individual is the same entity from one time to the
next. While a great deal of progress has been made in understanding the types...
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Concepts;
Essentialism;
Normative Factors;
Persistence;
True Self;
Morality;
Identity;
Moral Sensibility;
Perception
De Freitas, Julian, Kevin P. Tobia, George E. Newman, and Joshua Knobe. "Normative Judgments and Individual Essence." Cognitive Science 41, no. S3 (2017): 382–402.
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
increase in antiwhite bias. In fact, on average, white respondents perceive more antiwhite bias than antiblack bias in the twenty-first century. "It's very hard to find a metric that suggests that white people actually have a worse time...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
chance to speak, remember what you had said the next time you see them, and be focused on things other than the conversation at hand.’” Responses revealed a significant, negative relationship between an individual’s self-reported...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
opportunity to redouble their efforts and grab more market share, or take it as a warning that it might be time to get out while the getting was good? A new research study suggests that more companies than expected see a half-empty glass...
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- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
She recently discussed their findings with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: You're an expert on creativity who has examined it deeply for many years. What inspired you this time to look at it through the lens of leader behavior?...
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by Martha Lagace