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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

You’ll have to read on to hear our opinion (see Culture section in particular). THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY CULTURE. The firm focuses more on expertise and pedigree than merit, and the firm’s high turnover rate is self-fulfilling – low cultural cohesion leads to more of the same. What does that mean?

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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When Competition Between Coworkers Leads to Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business

At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. Our Studies Study 1. We invited 160 participants of U.S.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business

Within the last five to 10 years, several major professional societies considered banning or did ban industry scientists from presenting their research at annual meetings or publishing in the society’s journal regardless of the merits of the research. And continued vigilance is prudent.

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What Kind of Happiness Do People Value Most?

Harvard Business

In a series of studies, recently published in The Journal of Positive Psychology , we directly asked thousands of people (ages 18 to 81) about their preference between experienced and remembered happiness. Last, we wanted to test whether the pattern we saw among all of our American participants generalized to other cultures.

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Leading by Lending a Hand to Others

Harmonious Workplaces

Merging insights from leading consulting firm McKinsey, academic journals, and contemporary cultural references like Ted Lasso , this blog explores the multifaceted nature of leadership to which many, if not most, organizations may wish to aspire. International Journal of Business and Social Science, Vol. McKinsey & Company.

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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business

Traditionally, this research has focused on the contextual or external drivers of engagement, such as the characteristics of the job, the culture of the organization, or the quality of its leaders. Why is it that some people are more engaged — excited, moved, energized by their jobs — than others?