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- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
Lane and her colleagues sorted responses evaluating robot arm designs into three categories of evaluator: unscreened, screened through a human resources-like questionnaire examining their credentials, and those that took a robotics skills...
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- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
induced to daydream about sunny-day activities; sunny-day participants who were induced to daydream about sunny-day activities; rainy-day control group participants; and sunny-day control group participants. All participants were asked to enter several sets of written...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt
associated with stress. To control for differences in cortisol production, all the women participated in the stress test during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycles, which is the phase when cortisol stress response is the strongest. The women also responded to...
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by Carmen Nobel
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
Featured Exercises Build a foundation of self-awareness through a 360° assessment (Emotional and Social Competency Inventory) Explore the internal drivers of your motivations as a leader through the Personal Values Questionnaire...
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- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
participant filled out a leadership questionnaire from the mindset of the prescribed character. Next, participants were told to reach out to someone in their online networks. Some were told to send notes via LinkedIn with the intention of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
group, others engaged in activities that stressed individuality (creating personalized nametags, for example), and some focused on the identity of the organization (such as creating a logo for the research lab). After the experiments, participants filled out a short...
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- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
Steven Kramer) and I were doing an exploratory study of daily diaries we had collected from 238 people in twenty-six teams working on creative projects in seven different companies. The diaries were in the form of answers to a brief daily e-mail View Details
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by Martha Lagace
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Corporate Governance | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Harvard Availability Public Company Governance Survey /citations/public-company-governance-survey The report details the 1,034 public company responses from NACD annual questionnaire with additional data compiled by Equilar, a provider of...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
management of his or her fund than during the Internet bubble. We need a study as to the impact of the funds to see what, if any, new regulations are required. On July 26, 2002, the SEC wrote to major hedge funds asking them to fill out a View Details
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
determined by how much they trust their partners. When shown profile questionnaires filled out by their partners (who had been induced to either answer the questions or leave them blank), participants routinely gave less money to those...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
challenges, and meaningful interactions with colleagues. Two months after the internships ended, the participants received a follow-up questionnaire about their summer experiences. Half of them also received copies of their summer...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
questionnaire about how much they liked working in a competitive environment versus working with others as a team. A person who selected "like competition" was teamed with other competitors. Once the results were tabulated,...
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by Michael Blanding
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Power and Influence - Course Catalog
on your communication skills. It is meant to help you better project both warmth and strength and address the particular challenges that you may face as a public communicator. The second exercise is the Influence Style Questionnaire...
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- June 1990 (Revised October 1991)
- Case
Lake Pleasant Bodies Case (A)
Presents a classic dilemma in legal ethics--the conflict between an attorney's obligations as an attorney, in this case to protect a client's confidentiality, and his or her own moral obligations as a person. An attorney must decide how to respond to the father of a...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Moral Sensibility;
Questionnaires;
Attorney and Client Relationships;
Social Psychology;
Conflict Management;
Legal Services Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Lake Pleasant Bodies Case (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-212, June 1990. (Revised October 1991.)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
like to give is, ‘Would you get a better read out of someone’s weight if you asked them how much they weigh, or if you just put them on the scale?’ ” says Polli. The online game interactions are precisely timed, so they also offer greater depth of data. The difference...
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Dan Morrell
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
Once downloaded on the MedKaz, the documents are erased from HRC’s servers. Prior to a medical appointment, the patient completes a questionnaire stored on the device. The doctor can see a health summary, access past records, and generate...
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- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
employer selecting an employee for a job assignment, while 100 played the role of employee. In stage one, the "employees" completed two rounds of a math or verbal task for which they were paid based on performance; they also completed a brief demographic...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
That’s when David Dewan (MBA 1969) launched Contact Incorporated, in fierce competition with another Harvard startup, Operation Match. Both companies sold questionnaires to students—$3 for Operation Match; $4 for Contact Incorporated—and...
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April White
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
Zaltman and Deshpandé started by conducting 16 separate interviews with managers and "research suppliers" from Fortune 500 companies and prominent research firms. The two then honed their inquiry further, mailing 800 View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
questionnaire to determine their SVO. Sure enough, those with a pro-social orientation forked over an average of $1.22 for the cookie, while those with a pro-self orientation paid an average of 62 cents. "Just as we expected, people...
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