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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common evolutionary heritage. These four drives—the “ABCD” of human motivation—are: Acquire. Obtain scarce goods,...
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- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
contribution of organizations to the etiology of sex differences in behavior, cognition, and emotion at work. Specifically, we wanted to understand how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, encourage people to think,...
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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
the United States (U.S.), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of their careers. Women find themselves in a...
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- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
though it is always great to have high status, but it can lead to negative feelings of entitlement,” Norton says. The study included other findings about unruly passengers: The majority of disruptive passengers, 72.49 percent, were men....
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- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
States (U.S.), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of their careers. Women find themselves in a unique bind...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
friends, and strangers, even when costly. Why do people devote their resources to helping others? In this chapter, we examine whether engaging in prosocial behavior promotes subjective well-being, which encompasses greater positive affect, lower View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
Governance) company rooted in natural resource conservation as part of our DNA, it was a really hard, emotional decision for us,” Puri says, “but we’re still using plastic boxes ten years later because there isn’t an alternative available...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
avoid backsliding into dysfunctional routines—habitual patterns of negative behavior by individuals and groups that are triggered automatically and unconsciously by familiar circumstances or stimuli. Employees need help maintaining new...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog
planning and executing successful turnarounds. We will examine, among others, the importance of personal and organizational resilience, the management of critical thinking (logos), emotions (pathos), and relationships (ethos), and the...
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- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
together, our results highlight how revealing failures encountered on the way to success can be a counterintuitive yet effective interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
globally, San Francisco may be the proverbial canary in the coal mine, displaying the negative effects of such rapid increases in wealth on a city's culture. "This is a place where the effects of inequality appear to be heightened...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
we’ll hire it again. If it does a crummy job, we “fire” it and look for something else to solve the problem. Jobs are multifaceted. They’re never simply about function; they have powerful social and emotional dimensions. And the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
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buildup of such silence, she finds, can be catastrophic as fewer new ideas emerge, unexpressed negative emotion festers, managers and executives don’t get the vital information they need, productivity...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
spent fully awake. After an overnight period including sleep, individuals showed increases in positive perceptions of the choice set. This finding contrasts with previous research showing that sleep selectively enhances recall for View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
momentous. Since we launched in December 2013, we have already seen five of our formerly homeless artists gain housing; not simply because of this new opportunity to earn income, but because being validated—being shown their talent is valued rather than zeroing in on...
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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
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Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are more View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
salary negotiations, we hear women say, "I don't want people to think I'm too aggressive." But if you flip that around, the perception of you when you don't negotiate is much more negative than the perception of you when you do...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
research in a real-world setting bears this out, with positive emotion tied to higher creativity and negative feelings linked to lower motivation and creativity. (Data for her study are based on diary...
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- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
correspondingly negative effect." Align employees with company goals. Anecdote and data alike confirm the adage that “People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.” For most employees, their direct manager is the face of the organization....
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