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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had...
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Garry Emmons
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
regulate one's mood in line with the social context, on congruity. Two experiments find that when low self-monitors imagine a context that differs in valence from their mood, they feel more distinctive from the environment while high...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
attention to strategy-driven forms of accountability that can help them to achieve their missions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-069.pdf Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
preferences of their peers—and assessed subsequent brain activity during an incidental processing task in which participants viewed popular, unpopular, and novel symbols. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) differentiated between symbols that were and were not View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan officer from a US-based social...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Matchabelli, the son of nobility in Georgia and an amateur chemist. He began blending perfumes for his friends at an antique shop in New York before founding his own perfume company in 1926 . The social importance of smelling and looking...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
students, such as the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which launched in 2003, followed by the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2011. We’re now 25 years into the annual New Venture Competition sponsored by the Rock Center and the Social...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
disciplines which develop their own norms and conventions about interesting research questions and how to answer them. For several decades mainstream academic historians, especially those based in the United States, have devoted almost no...
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- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
toward a goal of dodge detection (i.e., Is this person answering the question?) but rather toward a goal of social evaluation (i.e., Do I like this person?). Listeners were not blind to all dodge attempts, however. Dodge detection...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
research on institutional leadership, strategic contradiction, and industry evolution. Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation By: Scherf, Robert, and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract—The normative principle of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to firms that are finding themselves outside the action as the clout of a handful of cities grows. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54944 forthcoming Marketing Science U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
with the responsibility to enforce rules may penalize transgressors more harshly when they are faced with a conflicting motivation to be lenient. Specifically, we test how transgressors are punished when it is their birthday: a day when View Details
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Moreover, we find that relatively higher wages also promote social norms such that coworkers are less (more) likely to collude to steal inventory from their company when relative wages are higher (lower)....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
measures' informativeness about managerial effort and talent depends critically on the judicious selection of peer firms as performance benchmarks. By evaluating the efficacy of firms' chosen relative TSR benchmarks in performance-based contracts, we document that,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
grounded in the competitive dynamics that may otherwise drive a race-to-the-bottom. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50203 forthcoming Journal of Business Ethics Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation for Corporate View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets than accepted applicants immediately prior to application and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
As much as some employees will crave the return of in-person social connections in the office, they have become accustomed to the flexibility that comes with virtual work—from less time to commute to more time with family and pets. I...
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