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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
challenge lies in attempting to heal a nation that is bitterly divided. We asked members of Harvard Business School's faculty two questions: First, how do you expect Biden’s presidency to impact businesses? And second, what leadership View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Article
Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence
By: A.W. Brooks, F. Gino and M.E. Schweitzer
Although individuals can derive substantial benefits from exchanging information and ideas, many individuals are reluctant to seek advice from others. We find that people are reticent to seek advice for fear of appearing incompetent. This fear, however, is misplaced....
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Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer. "Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence." Management Science 61, no. 6 (June 2015): 1421–1435.
- September 2022
- Supplement
Lessons Learned and Advice (Deborah Lovich)
By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
Fubini, David G., and Patrick Sanguineti. "Lessons Learned and Advice (Deborah Lovich)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 423-706, September 2022.
- March 2006
- Article
Let Me Give You Some Advice
By: F. Gino
Gino, F. "Let Me Give You Some Advice." Forethought. Harvard Business Review 84, no. 3 (March 2006): 24–25.
- 30 Jan 2009
- Other Presentation
Advice to the U.S. President on Competitiveness
Session moderated by Michael Porter and featuring Scott Davis, Ellen J. Kullman, Rupert Murdoch, Duncan Niederauer, David M. Rubenstein, Ronald A. Williams.
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"Advice to the U.S. President on Competitiveness." World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 30, 2009.
- August 2007
- Article
Negotiations versus Auctions: New Advice for Buyers
By: Ian Larkin
Larkin, Ian. "Negotiations versus Auctions: New Advice for Buyers." Negotiation 10, no. 8 (August 2007).
- Article
Do We Listen to Advice just Because we Paid for It? The Impact of Advice Cost on Its Use
By: F. Gino
Gino, F. "Do We Listen to Advice just Because we Paid for It? The Impact of Advice Cost on Its Use." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 107, no. 2 (November 2008): 234–245.
- Article
Why ‘Tell Them Something They Don't Know’ Is Bad Advice in B2B Sales
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Tracy DeCicco
Common advice in sales is to provide insights to customers during sales calls. But this advice generally stays at the level of “tell people something they don’t already know” and results in sales conversations littered with many irrelevant factoids. This article...
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Cespedes, Frank V., and Tracy DeCicco. "Why ‘Tell Them Something They Don't Know’ Is Bad Advice in B2B Sales." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 19, 2019).
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
iStock Much has been accomplished by business leaders who turned left when told to turn right, who reached for the door instead of for the stars, who hired A when the search committee unanimously recommended B. The following research celebrates such unconventional...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- May 10, 2019
- Article
How Asking Multiple People for Advice Can Backfire
Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino. "How Asking Multiple People for Advice Can Backfire." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 10, 2019).
- November–December 1991
- Article
Advice and Dissent: Rating the Corporate Governance Compact
By: C. R. Wharton, J. W. Lorsch and L. Hanson
Wharton, C. R., J. W. Lorsch, and L. Hanson. "Advice and Dissent: Rating the Corporate Governance Compact." Harvard Business Review 69, no. 6 (November–December 1991).
- March 2012
- Article
Anxiety, Advice, and the Ability to Discern: Feeling Anxious Motivates Individuals to Seek and Use Advice
By: F. Gino, A.W. Brooks and M.E. Schweitzer
Across eight experiments, we describe the influence of anxiety on advice seeking and advice taking. We find that anxious individuals are more likely to seek and rely on advice than are those in a neutral emotional state (Experiment 1), but this pattern of results does...
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Motivation and Incentives
Gino, F., A.W. Brooks, and M.E. Schweitzer. "Anxiety, Advice, and the Ability to Discern: Feeling Anxious Motivates Individuals to Seek and Use Advice." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 102, no. 3 (March 2012): 497–512.
- September 2021
- Case
Tonya Thayer
By: David Fubini
Tonya Thayer, Senior Partner and leader of the Consumer Package Goods practice at Sinclair Consulting, must evaluate Alan Henderson, a Principal (junior) Partner and a key member within CPG, as the six-month update on his progress and development nears. While prior...
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Advice Giving;
Performance Review;
Performance Evaluation;
Personal Development and Career
Fubini, David. "Tonya Thayer." Harvard Business School Case 422-022, September 2021.
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Effects of Task Difficulty on Use of Advice
By: F. Gino and D. A. Moore
Gino, F., and D. A. Moore. "Effects of Task Difficulty on Use of Advice." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 20, no. 1 (January 2007): 21–35.
- 2006
- Working Paper
Effects of Task Difficulty on Use of Advice
By: Francesca Gino and Don A. Moore
Gino, Francesca, and Don A. Moore. "Effects of Task Difficulty on Use of Advice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-019, February 2006.
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many people from friends and family...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
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The Errors of Experts: When Expertise Hinders Effective Provision and Seeking of Advice and Feedback
By: Ting Zhang, Kelly Harrington and Elad Sherf
To be effective, experts need to simultaneously develop others (i.e. provide advice and feedback to novices) and advance their own learning (i.e. seek and incorporate advice and feedback from others). However, expertise, and the state of efficacy associated with it,...
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Expertise;
Self-efficacy;
Feedback;
Perspective Taking;
Cognitive Entrenchment;
Interpersonal Communication
Zhang, Ting, Kelly Harrington, and Elad Sherf. "The Errors of Experts: When Expertise Hinders Effective Provision and Seeking of Advice and Feedback." Current Opinion in Psychology 43 (February 2022): 91–95.
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Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets--In Search of Advice for Participants
By: A. E. Roth and U. G. Rothblum
Roth, A. E., and U. G. Rothblum. "Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets--In Search of Advice for Participants." Econometrica 67, no. 1 (January 1999): 21–43.