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- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
be involved. I am a team player, and I have a good connection with the players. I want to motivate them.” Flick relied on the input of his staff and always postulated joint decision-making, where he frequently sought new insights to... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
clean, resilient, and consumer-centric through the application of data science and behavioral economics, optimizing the system assets and operations across the electric meter.” Tanuj Deora HBS MBA 2006 Vice President, Market Development... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
behavior that make this redeployment feasible and sustainable over time. "A vast majority of the initiatives that companies are implementing do not require large capital investments or radical innovation." How companies are... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
be classified into five segments: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Each of the five segments has its own behavioral and demographic characteristics, with varying levels of uncertainty about the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
organizational behavior. "I love the intellectual hunt behind research," he says. "It's a process of trying to understand elements that initially don't seem to have any relation to one another. When they come together, it's a big ‘aha.' You want to be able to... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
behavior of others. In his book Complicit, Professor Max Bazerman offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding the psychological and other traps that lead us to ignore, condone, or actively support wrongdoing in our businesses,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications of our results for organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Student-Profile
Aurora Turek
disagreement plays a crucial role. Aurora is also helping to organize a lab at the Behavioral Insights Group at the Harvard Kennedy School, where undergraduate research assistants will have the opportunity... View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
unpopular preventive health behavior: handwashing with soap. The study finds that frontloading both financial and social incentives facilitates habituation. Incentives, Peer Pressure, and Behavior Persistence This research explores... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
dropped into the plot of Breaking Bad, might ask himself what he should do. Walter White is not an aberration: Most people facing ethical dilemmas reflexively ask just that, according to a new paper coauthored by Ting Zhang, a doctoral student in the Organizational... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
of years out of business school?” Management challenges include turnarounds, transactions, global expansion, reinvention, scaling growth, and career management. Field Course: US Behavioral Insights Professor... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Polaroid in the 1930s and ’40s, when the iconic company was a risky startup led by an untested entrepreneur. A “Hack Your Sleep” event offered insights into the science of slumber—a subject unfamiliar to many MBA students. Cosponsored by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Anthony Mayo—members of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit recognized for their excellence in the classroom—quickly realized they needed to reinvent the way they taught. “We had to rethink basic factors, such as what information is... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
brick-and-mortar retail, specifically in the form of large-scale shopping malls, is still the dominant venue for consumer purchases in the developed world. Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data This study proposes a practical and tractable model of economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
Julian Zlatev and Christine Exley (Image by John Ritter) Both Associate Professor Christine Exley and Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev apply the tools of their research to examine a simple question: What makes people give? Exley became interested in the topic as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
divisiveness in their geographically dispersed colleagues. Yet she couldn’t find a single article of the hidden-in-plain-sight impact of language on the promise of global collaboration. “In my view,” says Neeley, now a full professor in the School’s Organizational... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
financial opportunity cost, left me with no doubt about my commitment to a career in academia,” she recalls. Drawing on her insights from the MBA classroom, Fernandes conducted doctoral research examining the impact of changes in status... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
prepared to make a snap judgment; collecting and analyzing the data across two firms took nearly a year. But by offering them my initial observations about team behaviors and combining it with some basic View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
basis. We want that to change. That sounds like a big undertaking. Where did you begin? There was not even commonality in the definition of what a leader is and what leadership behaviors are, so we started by developing a conversation... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna