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- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
yourself,” says Arthur C. Brooks, Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow. “You're not going to be a good entrepreneur unless you see that your life is your enterprise; your life is your startup.” Here’s what Brooks and four other HBS experts recommend: Put on your own...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
never have a perfect image of his or her thoughts and feelings. In light of the strategic incentives to mask intentions in negotiation, the picture can be especially cloudy. Whatever impressions we form at the bargaining table should...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
you have to put on your own oxygen mask first, but then you really do need to lead from the front. Last year, I think it was quite a differentiator for leaders. Because if you did not have compassion, you did not have empathy, how were...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
saying, “I just can’t get any work done; the media keeps calling about my last study.” But she knows better. That working paper, coauthored with HBS faculty, dissected the humblebrag, finding that “bragging masked by a complaint” makes...
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- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
Abstract—Humblebragging-bragging masked by a complaint-is a distinct and, given the rise of social media, increasingly ubiquitous form of self-promotion. We show that although people often choose to humblebrag when motivated to make a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
Exercise will improve sleep and increase your desire for nutritious food. In addition, with the exception of sleep, all of these activities can be done in short bursts of 10 to 15 minutes. Flight attendants’ warning to “Put your own oxygen View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
ethnicity, and along different points of the political spectrum. The topics ranged from race to guns, from character to party politics, from masks to rallies, from the US Supreme Court to the pandemic to immigration and climate change. On...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
1910. Black arrivals increased both the effort exerted by immigrants to assimilate and their eventual Americanization. These average effects mask substantial heterogeneity: while initially less integrated groups (i.e., Southern and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
or deeply satisfying one. One test of the seriousness of an illness is the severity of the treatment it requires. For Tony, the bribe, with all its dangerous risks, is strong, self-prescribed medication. The flow of success had masked and...
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
missed during the preceding year. I will never forget the day—March 14th, 2022 to be precise—when masks were no longer required in Harvard’s classrooms. It was an emotional moment, and I remember seeing many smiles and some tears of joy....
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- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
our lives to try to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions is very similar to trying to wear masks and use hand sanitizer and buy ourselves some time until we get a vaccine. It's just like buying ourselves some time until we can capture...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
U.S. South after 1910. Black arrivals increased both the effort exerted by immigrants to assimilate and their eventual Americanization. These average effects mask substantial heterogeneity: while initially less integrated groups (i.e.,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
identify and offer the first empirical investigation of a prevalent, yet understudied self-presentation strategy: humblebragging. Across seven studies including a week-long diary study and a field experiment, we identify humblebragging—bragging View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Dazed, he stumbled off the field but mistakenly went to the visiting Rams bench. After pleading to get back in the game ("The men who make it in the NFL are experts at being able to mask enormous amounts of pain," Kacyvenski says), he...
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- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
with those around you. For years, my parents and friends would try to have a conversation with me about the eating disorder and I could not come from a place of authenticity. I still had this external mask on like everything was fine. If...
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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
corporations' environmental transparency. We also focus on the extent to which corporate environmental disclosure is symbolic and, in particular, what leads corporations to selectively disclose relatively benign environmental impacts to create an impression of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes...
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Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and country-level factors that limit firms' use of selective disclosure by...
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Carmen Nobel