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- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
independently and create his or her own rules. People exert great effort to follow expected dress codes and etiquette in both professional and nonprofessional settings, with the belief that conforming to these written and unwritten rules...
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- 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
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
extensive historical study: (1) link responsibility and control, (2) manage moral hazard, (3) pool risk in sound institutions, (4) adopt market conforming approaches to the extent possible, and (5) structure markets to promote safe...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
executive back to the board, back to what should be the ultimate responsible body. Is all this rule making enough? You can go just so far with rules and regulations. It’s the spirit behind conforming with those rules that determines...
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- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
scholarly, detached and dispassionate judgment. Without such a commitment, academics and the subjects they teach are in danger of being discredited. It is far too easy to enumerate flaws in the current state of leadership education: course content rarely View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti Abstract—Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
electricity infrastructure, and cell phones. Up the Organization Citations for the "most influential company/organization" conformed to choices for most significant innovations and most influential leaders. Microsoft finished convincingly...
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- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
positive attitude towards gay people – even our extended family in Moscow supports anti-LGBT measures. Immigrant families like mine typically need to conform and adapt to survive in a new society, so I didn’t make waves, especially with...
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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
adherence and non-adherence, thereby avoiding the complete abandonment of the current system. Herding, Social Preferences and (Non-)Conformity Authors:Luca Corazzini and Ben Greiner Periodical:Economics Letters (forthcoming) Abstract We study the role of social...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
experiences of several companies, the authors illustrate the dangers of conforming to market pressures for unrealistic growth targets. They argue that an overvalued stock, by encouraging overpriced acquisitions and other risky,...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
such as conforming to the status hierarchy when it comes time to make a decision (for example, "She's been here the longest, so let's just go with her idea"), the opportunity for utilizing relevant expertise to improve team results...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Social Identity Management = Inclusion" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Gender Conformity & Nonconformity Thinking Expansively About Gender Nonconformity and Workplace Anti-Discrimination Strategies Catherine Connell, Boston...
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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
different cultures. In all cases they had to find a way to deal with these circumstances in a way that conformed to their values and high purpose. By and large the CEOs had a diverse career experience. They had cross-functional and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
History Review (forthcoming) Abstract This article uses the records of nineteenth-century Scottish banks in an attempt to understand investor behaviour in the early British capital market. It presents four main findings, some of which do not View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
success. In particular, it is debated whether American Honda operated according to a deliberate or emergent strategy, i.e., whether or not strategic decisions made in the States conformed to the intentions of upper management. This paper...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs By: Koning, Rembrand, and John-Paul Ferguson Abstract— Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
takes the man’s point of view in hopes of rebalancing a debate too often confined to women, to political correctness, or to conforming reluctantly to equality laws. From Start-Up to Global Success: The Zensar Story by Ganesh Natarajan...
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- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
in automating than in informating. Consumers have been forced to conform to the rigors of automation as they track their own packages, make their way through infinite branches in automated telephone systems, waste their time waiting for...
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by Martha Lagace