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Refusing to act on advice from a respected colleague or mentor can backfire and damage your working relationship, a new study says. Hayley Blunden explains the career implications of seeking counsel from others. 
13 Mar 2019  |  Research & Ideas

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Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

by James K. Sebenius
  • 08 Mar 2019
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  • Research & Ideas
After a lengthy courting process, Amazon thought its plan for a New York HQ campus was in the bag. But the company failed a primary goal of negotiations, says James Sebenius.

Why Employers Favor Men

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Sep 2017
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  • Research & Ideas
Why are women discriminated against in hiring decisions? Research by Katherine Coffman, Christine Exley, and Muriel Niederle finds the answer is more subtle than expected.

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 May 2017
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  • Research & Ideas
African American and Asian job applicants who mask their race on resumes seem to have better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues.

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2018
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  • Research & Ideas
In earlier research, Kathleen McGinn and colleagues discovered that adult kids of working moms are high achievers at work. Now it turns out they are happy, too.

New Working Papers 

Scholarly papers that describe original research in a narrow field of study.

The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War I

by Daniel P. Gross
  • 13 MAR 2019

Calculators for Women: When Identity Appeals Provoke Backlash

by Tami Kim, Kate Barasz, Leslie John, and Michael Norton
  • 07 MAR 2019

The Impacts of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

by Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira
  • 05 MAR 2019

The Revision Bias

by Ximena Garcia-Rada, Leslie John, Ed O’Brien, and Michael I. Norton
  • 04 MAR 2019

The Research Exchange 

The Research Exchange is a way for faculty and corporate partners to collaborate on the following field studies.

Transparency & Productivity

Ethan Bernstein

Best Practices for Considering Contract Workers

Christopher Stanton

Causes and Consequences of Withholding Critical Feedback in Organizations

Ashley Whillans and Chuck Howard

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