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- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
Dukakis: "We put all the hate groups into one pot and let it boil." That brings us back to the messenger. Anger attracts, but does it sell? Clearly, Trump's marketing has worked on some levels. Hillary Clinton has 3.5M Facebook...
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- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
pooling equilibria exist becomes smaller, and firms are more likely to anger consumers. Regulation can increase welfare, for example, through fines (even if there are no changes in prices). We illustrate these gains in a monopoly setting,...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
blame game engulfed politicians and S&P itself. In the midst of all this angst, four Harvard Business School faculty members offer their views on what went wrong and what needs to be done to right the US ship of state. bo Becker, Assistant Professor Of Business...
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by Staff
- May – June 2011
- Article
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness.
By: Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Can groups become effective simply by assembling high status individual performers? Though an affirmative answer may seem straightforward on the surface, this answer becomes more complicated when group members benefit from collaborating on interdependent tasks....
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Groups and Teams;
Equity;
Theory;
Human Resources;
Integration;
Body of Literature;
Performance Effectiveness;
Status and Position;
Experience and Expertise
Groysberg, Boris, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness." Organization Science 22, no. 3 (May–June 2011): 722–737.
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Yuille presents "Love, Pain, & the Rules of the Game" Panel: Black Feminist Perspectives on Rage and Love Myisha Cherry presents "Misuses of Anger: Audre Lorde, Self-Hatred, and the Anger it Fuels" Loretta J. Ross presents "Calling In the...
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- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
allow people to act on temporary emotions and impulses. (A recent paper by David Card and Gordon Dahl shows a 10 percent spike in domestic violence immediately after a local National Football League team suffers an upset loss, highlighting the link between flashes of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- January 2008
- Article
Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh
Research over 35 years shows only a weak link between socially responsible corporate behavior and good financial performance. However, there's no evidence of risk in doing good, only in being exposed for misdeeds.
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Values and Beliefs;
Profit;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Performance Effectiveness;
Behavior
Margolis, Joshua D., Hillary Anger Elfenbein, and James P. Walsh. "Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It." Social Responsibility. Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 19.
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
hospital staff tackled the situation head-on, finding that the data galvanized families rather than angering them. The clinic went on to change its processes and communications based on input from seventeen patient-parent team members....
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
tackled the situation head-on, finding that the data galvanized families rather than angering them. The clinic went on to change its processes and communications based on input from seventeen patient-parent team members. Six years later,...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
you struggle and praying they don’t lose you. They might want you to fight more, or less. Often, they quietly carry too much of the burden, which creates hidden anger and resentment. They may even suffer their own health struggles as a...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Turning Point: One Story at a Time
tears, they were not tears of anger or admonishment—her main fear was that I would have a very difficult and lonely life. The thing about coming out is that it’s not one conversation, one time. I had already told my older sister; in time...
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- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=13257 Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: How High Status Individuals Decrease Group Effectiveness Authors:Boris Groysberg, Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Hillary Anger Elfenbein...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery | About
simply to come together, please note there will be multiple opportunities at both Harvard and HBS to gather and to engage in discussion in the coming days, listed below. The report may spur a wide range of emotions, from grief to anger to...
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- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
violates the norm. From a social point of view, this is quite ingenious. In groups with helping norms, there will always be some people who try to exploit the friendliness of others. The anger displayed in the experiment protects the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
trivial, mundane, day-by-day things that leaders do and say can have an enormous impact. My guess is that a lot of leaders have very little sense of the impact that they have. That's particularly true of the negative behaviors. I don't think that the ineffective team...
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Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
organizations fail to learn from what happened in New Orleans, that may be the ultimate tragedy of a series of events that evoked feelings ranging from anger to embarrassment from the largest group of respondents to any of these columns...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
numbers for the next quarter and they don't materialize, they often feel publicly embarrassed by their inaccuracy and take their anger out on the subject company by reversing a previous “buy” recommendation. That causes many institutional...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
mainstream, in a climate where fear and anger and frustration dominate the horizon.” Concluded Ross, “Negotiations are about what's achievable, not impossible. They are about identifying an objective that makes sense given the...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
research and stressed in this book is the consistency with which real change is generated by engaging people's emotions, not their intellect, to alter behavior. Emotions such as fear and anger typically present obstacles to change, and...
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- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
the news network for suggesting that black females would cast votes based on gender or race rather on candidates' political platforms. During that same period, Oprah Winfrey endorsed Obama for president, angering many of her female fans....
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by Carmen Nobel