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  • 11 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

“Work hard, and you’ll be successful.” How often do we tell children that the key to success is putting forth effort? That advice might seem like admirable inspiration to encourage kids to work hard as they pursue their goals. However, new research in the Journal of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • October 2001
  • Background Note

A Note on Team Process

By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
When tasks are highly complex, demand a diversity of skills, or require a commitment from the involved parties, teams are usually the most effective way to approach them. But a group of people working together does not automatically equally a team, and groups are often... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Decision Making; Management; Business Processes; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution
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    Alison Wood Brooks

    Alison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches a cutting-edge course in the MBA elective curriculum called "How... View Details

    • 2001
    • Article

    From Guilford to Creative Synergy: Opening the Black Box of Team Level Creativity

    By: T. R. Kurtzberg and T. M. Amabile
    Previous research, from Guilford's founding tradition to more modern research on individual creativity and general group processes, falls short of adequately describing team-level creativity. Alhough researchers have addressed brainstorming in groups with mixed... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Groups and Teams; Theory; Research; Organizational Culture
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    Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

    By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
    This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    My research seeks to understand and improve service integration across specialized professions and organizations. A critical idea driving my research is that work is becoming more dynamic, complex and interconnected, particularly for work that addresses difficult... View Details
    Keywords: Organization Behavior; Health Care Delivery; Team Effectiveness; Organizational Learning
    • Research Summary

    Systems Psychodynamics

    Most of my research and pedagogical practice are informed by a systems psychodynamics perspective. First introduced by social scientists who conjugated open systems and psychoanalytic theories in their scholarly writing and organizational consulting, this... View Details

    • 12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 15 Jun 2021
    • Virtual Programming

    HBS On Board Session

    Join the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative for the launch of On Board, a new program designed to inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards. In this first session, Professor Kash Rangan will host a conversation with Anne Wallestad of BoardSource on the shift... View Details
    • October 2009
    • Case

    Medisys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development Team

    By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
    Key topics include designing teams, managing teams, managing conflict, group dynamics, project management, product development, interdepartmental relations, and organizational change. MediSys, a U.S.-based medical equipment maker, has been developing IntensCare, a new... View Details
    Keywords: Project Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change; Leadership; Conflict Management; Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Product Design; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Care and Treatment; Power and Influence; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • 21 Jul 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

    Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 13 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

    Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 14 Jul 2016
    • Blog Post

    Dating at HBS

    fiancé Drew in discussion group during their first year at HBS. We checked in with her to learn more about dating during business school, and how common it is for sparks to fly between classmates on campus.  Do many people meet potential... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Research

    Professor Cuddy studies the origins and outcomes of how we perceive and are influenced by other people, investigating the roles of variables such as culture, emotions, nonverbal behaviors, and hormone levels. Much of her work focuses on social categories (e.g.,... View Details

    • 27 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

    For the most part, social media is what you make it. You choose whom to keep tabs on, who can follow you back, what you “like,” and which snippets of your life you reveal. But what if those carefully curated depictions are suddenly on the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

      Jeffrey T. Polzer

      Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details

      • Research Summary

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      Empirically, Ryann uses a combination of in-depth qualitative field research and visual and textual archival data to examine moral action at multiple levels of analysis. Through observation and interviews, she aims to capture the lived experience of individuals and... View Details
      • 22 Jan 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Separating Homophily and Peer Influence with Latent Space

      Keywords: by Joseph P. Davin, Sunil Gupta & Mikołaj Jan Piskorski
      • 15 Nov 2022
      • Op-Ed

      Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

      to create social media, whose audiences voluntarily gave up their privacy. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Snapchat require you to sign in, making your identity known to the platform. Users’ interests can be inferred from the interests of their... View Details
      Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the U.S.

      By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
      How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of... View Details
      Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Immigration; Race; Attitudes; Boundaries; Prejudice and Bias
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        Teresa M. Amabile

        Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details