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Are Creative People More Dishonest? In a series of studies, Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely found that inherently creative people tend to cheat more than noncreative people. It's a sobering thought in a corporate culture that champions out-of-the-box thinking.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 28, 2011
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The Importance of 'Don't' in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior There are two ways a company can encourage ethical conduct among its employees: either the promotion of good actions and outcomes or the prevention of bad ones. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 5, 2011
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It's Alive!: Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research Researchers use field and lab experiments to better understand the logic of real-world decisions, which sometimes fly in the face of established economic theory. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 5, 2015
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How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat There's a key link between our hormone levels and unethical behavior, according to new research by Francesca Gino, and colleagues. The good news: businesses can do something about it. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 17, 2012
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Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity New studies show that workers are more productive on rainy days than on sunny ones. Does your office take advantage? |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 5, 2014
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Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance New research by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work improves job performance in the long run. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 8, 2004
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The Hidden Cost of Buying Information We all need good information to make decisions--that is why consulting is an industry that never goes out of style. But paying for information can carry a hidden cost: We may give it more weight in our decision making than it deserves. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 9, 2015
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Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty Francesca Gino and colleagues find that people avoid professional networking -- even though it's good for their careers -- because it makes them feel morally dirty. |
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Most Popular Articles of 2011 Our most-read articles of 2011 focused on how leaders can become better -- and what can lead to their downfalls. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 13, 2013
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5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists Business scholars increasingly hinge their hypotheses on sociological and psychological studies with a general goal to help organizations run better, but the research often leads to findings that are useful to our everyday lives including weight loss. |
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Honesty Is Healthy The Science of Honesty project set out to examine what would happen if we simply stopped the lying and started telling the truth. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 20, 2011
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Blind Spots: We're Not as Ethical as We Think Organizations can monitor how they are creating institutions, structures, and incentives that increase the likelihood of unethical actions, while individuals can "precommit" to intended ethical choices. |
Investment Advisor
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Pants on Fire Because a lack of truthfulness can sabotage your clients' financial plans, as well as their relationships with each other and with you, it's worth examining why people lie and how you can foster more honesty in your practice. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 4, 2015
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Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating Organizations spend a lot of money enabling employees to solve problems collectively. But inducing more collaboration may actually hinder the most important part of problem-solving. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 13, 2015
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`Humblebragging' is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview While humblebragging runs rampant on Twitter, it's a lousy self-promotion tactic that usually backfires according to recent research. |
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Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams Power interrupts, and absolute power interrupts absolutely. Francesca Gino and colleagues discover that a high-powered boss can lead a team into poor performance. |
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Career Pros: A Question of Ethics Do you and your employer share the same moral values? Knowing your ethical boundaries as well as those of your organization is essential to working comfortably and with integrity. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century Harvard faculty look backward and forward at the most important business trends of the young twenty-first century. |
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IBM's Web 2.0 Approach to E-Documents IBM's new Lotus Forms 3.0 offering lets customers create, fill out and sign documents from a Web browser, saving time, money and lots of trees. |
