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- November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Teaching Note
Conflict on a Trading Floor (TN) (A) and (B) (LCA)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
- September 2003 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Hearthside Homes
By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman
Investigates the "controllability problem" inherent in bonus systems. Ideally, an incentive system accurately measures performance in areas that the individual can control. But most measures are either too broad, including factors outside the influence of the employee,...
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- May 1997
- Article
Positive Illusions About Oneself and One's Group: Antecedents and Consequences
By: J. Polzer, R. Kramer and M. Neale
Polzer, J., R. Kramer, and M. Neale. "Positive Illusions About Oneself and One's Group: Antecedents and Consequences." Small Group Research 28 (May 1997): 243–266.
- October 1999 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Buckman Laboratories (A)
Explores the implementation of a cutting-edge knowledge management system in a midsize, specialty chemical company. The initiative, begun in the early 1990s, has received several awards for its efforts. In early 1999, the company is experiencing severe price pressures...
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Fulmer, William E. "Buckman Laboratories (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-160, October 1999. (Revised January 2003.)
- Article
Payment Depreciation: The Behavioral Effects of Temporally Separating Payments from Consumption
By: J. T. Gourville and Dilip Soman
Gourville, J. T., and Dilip Soman. "Payment Depreciation: The Behavioral Effects of Temporally Separating Payments from Consumption." Journal of Consumer Research 25, no. 2 (September 1998): 160–174.
- fall 2007
- Article
Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation
By: Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman
DeHoratius, Nicole, and Ananth Raman. "Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 9, no. 4 (fall 2007).
- 1982
- Article
Incentive Compatibility in a Market with Indivisible Goods
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "Incentive Compatibility in a Market with Indivisible Goods." Economics Letters 9, no. 2 (1982): 127–132.
- July 1997
- Article
Perspectives on Multiple Category Choice
By: Gary Russell, David Bell, Anand Bodapati, Christina Brown, Joengwen Chiang, Gary Gaeth, Sunil Gupta and Puneet Manchanda
Russell, Gary, David Bell, Anand Bodapati, Christina Brown, Joengwen Chiang, Gary Gaeth, Sunil Gupta, and Puneet Manchanda. "Perspectives on Multiple Category Choice." Marketing Letters 8, no. 3 (July 1997): 297–305.
- Article
The Task Force Report: The Reasoning Behind the Recommendations
Stein, Jeremy, and Bruce Greenwald. "The Task Force Report: The Reasoning Behind the Recommendations." Journal of Economic Perspectives 2, no. 3 (Summer 1988): 3–23.
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Strategy Making in Novel and Complex Worlds: The Power of Analogy
By: G. Gavetti, Daniel Levinthal and Jan W. Rivkin
- Article
Bargaining Power of Multinationals and Host Governments
By: L. T. Wells Jr. and N. Fagre
Wells, L. T., Jr., and N. Fagre. "Bargaining Power of Multinationals and Host Governments." Journal of International Business Studies 13, no. 2 (Fall 1982). (Reprinted in Philip Grub, Fariborz Ghadar, and Dara Khambata (eds.) The Multinational Enterprise in Transition, 2d ed. Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1984.)
- 01 Apr 1977
- Conference Presentation
Access to Opportunity and Power: Measuring Racism/Sexism inside Organizations
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Access to Opportunity and Power: Measuring Racism/Sexism inside Organizations." Paper presented at the Research Symposium on Social Indicators in Institutional Racism/Sexism, April 01, 1977. (Also published as "Differential Access to Opportunity and Power" in Discrimination in Organizations, edited by R. Alvarez and K.G. Lutterman, Jossey-Bass, 1979.)
- January 2010
- Teaching Note
Youth Villages: The challenges of scaling a nonprofit with government as the primary funding source (TN)
Teaching Note for [309007].
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- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
Faced with the need for massive change, most managers respond predictably. They revamp the organization's strategy, then round up the usual set of suspects—people, pay, and processes—shifting around staff, realigning incentives, and rooting out inefficiencies. They...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 1999
- Chapter
Beyond the Simple Demography-Power Hypothesis: How Blacks in Power Influence Whites to Mentors Blacks
By: D. A. Thomas
Thomas, D. A. "Beyond the Simple Demography-Power Hypothesis: How Blacks in Power Influence Whites to Mentors Blacks." In Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships within Multicultural Organizations, edited by A. Murrell, F. Crosby, and R. Ely. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
- January 20, 2022
- Article
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
Many workers feel battered and distrustful after almost two years of COVID-19 instability. But it's not too late for managers—even those who made damaging missteps—to repair these relationships, say Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta.
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta. "3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (January 20, 2022).
- 2022
- Working Paper
When Do Individuals Give Up Agency? The Role of Decision Avoidance
By: Holly Dykstra, Christine L. Exley and Muriel Niederle
A common policy problem is that individuals reject recommended options and insist on making their own choices. Via a large-scale experiment, we document and investigate what factors contribute to this preference for agency. Our main results show that individuals’...
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Dykstra, Holly, Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle. "When Do Individuals Give Up Agency? The Role of Decision Avoidance." Working Paper, October 2022.
- October 15, 2021
- Article
Virtuous Victims
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Maryam Kouchaki
How do people perceive the moral character of victims? We find, across a range of transgressions, that people frequently see victims of wrongdoing as more moral than non-victims who have behaved identically. Across 15 experiments (total n = 9,355), we document this...
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Keywords:
Moral Judgment;
Restorative Justice;
Punishment;
Compensation;
Person Perception;
Moral Sensibility;
Judgments;
Perception
Jordan, Jillian J., and Maryam Kouchaki. "Virtuous Victims." Science Advances 7, no. 42 (October 15, 2021).
- July 2021
- Case
New Director Dilemmas: More (and More) Information
By: John J-H Kim
Keywords:
Educational Policy And Politics;
Education;
Policy;
Organizational Culture;
Interests;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H. "New Director Dilemmas: More (and More) Information." Harvard Business School Case 322-017, July 2021.
- July 2021
- Case
New Director Dilemmas: Focusing on Special Interests
By: John J-H Kim
Keywords:
Educational Policy And Politics;
Education;
Policy;
Organizational Culture;
Interests;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H. "New Director Dilemmas: Focusing on Special Interests." Harvard Business School Case 322-013, July 2021.