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Michele Gelfand: belief

12 Sept 2018 Conversations with Tyler Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures

“I think that there’s some really smart, accessible types of papers that come out in HBR that help people to understand human behavior, give real-world examples of how they apply.”

— Michele Gelfand

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Michele Gelfand
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belief
Recorded
12 Sept 2018
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Harvard Business Review? I think that there’s some really smart, accessible types of papers that come out in HBR that help people to understand human behavior, give real-world examples of how they apply. I’ve been just writing about, for example, Elon Musk and some of his problems [laughs] and how they reflect his genius, his looseness, but how much he needs to tighten up that operation. We write about mergers and acquisitions, and how they succeed or fail, and the cultural factors that managers and CEOs should know about. You would think that in those contexts, they would understand and do cultural due diligence before they get married with other companies, but they don’t. So HBR helps people to understand the scientific principles that inform management, but in a context where they’re given real-world examples. Is academia a tight or a loose culture?…

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