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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
research and practice because the Undefeated and Intuitive Criterion refinements often produce divergent predictions. Our results demonstrate that conformance to the Undefeated and Intuitive Criterion refinements is influenced by changes...
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Sean Silverthorne
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Francesca Gino (Dey Street) From an early age, we are taught to be rule followers, and the pressure to fit in only increases as we age. But conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept...
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- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
CSR record make a convenient target for the media, the authors turned to sociological studies. These show that readers like unexpected news—explaining why accidents at the greenest companies were widely covered—but those same readers also find comfort in stories that...
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- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
change and adapt to the situation," Brahimi advised. "Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality." The biggest barrier to developing that mindfulness is something that is almost never...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
increasing the amount of labor at a store is associated with an increase in profit margin. This did not come about through the impact of more labor on service quality, but through its impact on conformance quality—those "boring...
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- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
ways in which teamwork can suppress the most important kinds of creativity and innovation. Overbearing team leaders, the desire to conform in face-to-face relationships, free riding team members, the dominance by articulate extroverts of...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
transactions are a way of life. The case illustrates a classic dilemma: should organizations conform to the environment they're in, or should they export their ethical standards to other lands? In Paine's view, framing the issue as...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
increased dramatically. Now that they could pay for showing up late, the parents stopped feeling guilty and made it a habit. "If you put a money value on the incentive, you often take away the pressure to conform to norms," Raman said....
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- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
also make the settlement request conform more closely to standard invoices, providing a smoother path for processing payment, instead of initiating an internal legal review. She says it is interesting to observe the contrast between the...
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- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
avoid them. "They become overhead," Gulati says of support departments. "And so this pathology continues. They escalate the number of requirements that businesses have to conform to—which they are now the custodians of—to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
specialized groups working independently of one another. The 'modules' could then be connected and (in theory at least) would function seamlessly, as long as they conformed to a predetermined set of design rules." In addition, module...
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- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
women." Marlis Krichewsky presented an interesting hypothesis when she classified male and female managers in three groups: those who conform to the gender role model, those who imitate the role model of the other gender, and those...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
This was the moment that I realized that I can be proud of my own culture, and in fact, it will be of more service to my classmates if I communicated how I was different, rather than try to conform to the majority out of a sense of...
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- 20 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
racially controversial causes in a way that could turn off an employer. “People want to have like an awesome black worker but they want one who they feel like fits within a certain box and like very much will conform and like lay low and...
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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
business certifies independent hot-spot providers and splits with them a $50-per-month user subscription fee. Boingo users are assured that hot spots in the network conform to technical standards, and the software allows them to transfer...
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- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
series of studies demonstrates that people confer higher status and competence to nonconforming rather than conforming individuals. These positive inferences derived from signals of nonconformity are mediated by perceived autonomy and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
with as much as a 40 percent increase in committing to recurring donations. Norton speculates that the higher number is due to a desire to conform to the social norms of other contributors—and not be the cause for the charity to deny...
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- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
members of the collective, Hill rejects the idea that they should be chosen in order to conform to a freeform type of corporate structure, a "one big happy family" mentality. People in organizations of collective genius, she insists, need...
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by Martha Lagace