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- March–April 2013
- Article
Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations
By: Tsedal Neeley
How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Status and Position; Loss; Spoken Communication; Emotions; Attitudes; Behavior; Globalization
Neeley, Tsedal. "Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations." Organization Science 24, no. 2 (March–April 2013): 476–497.
- Article
When the Thought Doesn’t Count: The Dynamics of Unhelpful Help in Creative Organizations
By: Colin Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa Amabile
We’ve all been there. You ask a colleague for help with something, maybe a tricky research design or a difficult student. They agree to help, but their assistance misses its mark. You wonder what happened and, if you turn to existing research and theory, you don’t find... View Details
Fisher, Colin, Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa Amabile. "When the Thought Doesn’t Count: The Dynamics of Unhelpful Help in Creative Organizations." Academy of Management Discoveries (in press). (Pre-published online October 18, 2024.)
- Article
Organization of Information and the Detection of Gender Discrimination
By: C. Rutte, T. Diekmann, J. Polzer, F. Crosby and D. Messick
Rutte, C., T. Diekmann, J. Polzer, F. Crosby, and D. Messick. "Organization of Information and the Detection of Gender Discrimination." Psychological Science 5, no. 4 (July 1994): 226–231.
- 02 Dec 2011
- News
Can Harvard and MIT Make Organ Transplants More Efficient?
- June 2009 (Revised May 2010)
- Background Note
A Note on Cost Reduction in Financially Troubled Organizations
By: Paul W. Marshall
This note discusses methods for reducing costs, particularly labor costs, in a financially distressed organization. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Cost Management; Financial Condition; Labor; Crisis Management
Marshall, Paul W. "A Note on Cost Reduction in Financially Troubled Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 809-161, June 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
- October 1991
- Supplement
Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (T): 1991 General Organization
Shapiro, Benson P. "Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (T): 1991 General Organization." Harvard Business School Supplement 592-044, October 1991.
- 1998
- Working Paper
Value Creation and Destruction in the Management of Organizations
- 01 Aug 1966
- Conference Presentation
The Organization Child: Experience Management in a Nursery School
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "The Organization Child: Experience Management in a Nursery School." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, August 01, 1966. (Working Paper No. 16, University of Michigan, Center for Research on Social Organization Also in Sociology of Education, vol. 45 (spring 1972), pp. 186-212. Reprinted in The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education, edited by Purpel and H.A. Giroux. Berkeley, Calif.: McCutchan, 1982.)
- 21 Feb 2024
- Podcast
Microsoft’s AI perspective: From chatbots to reengineering the organization
AI’s revolutionary potential is best realized incrementally, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Modern Work and Business Applications. How the tech giant is experimenting its way from AI assistants to autonomous agents while engaging with... View Details
- 22 Feb 2023
- News
How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World
- Article
Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations
By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn
Negotiation is a process that creates, reinforces, and reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature on gender in job negotiations from... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Body of Literature; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Research; Behavior; Equality and Inequality
Bowles, Hannah Riley, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations." Academy of Management Annals 2 (2008): 99–132.
- 1994
- Chapter
Strategic Change: How to Realign the Organization to Implement Strategy
By: Michael Beer and R. A. Eisentat
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
number of readers put forward well-tempered comments questioning research on whether diversity and inclusion enhance organization performance. The implication is that this may account in some part for the slow pace of progress on this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work
Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
For organizations seeking to understand the actions needed to achieve their diversity and inclusion recruiting goals and to communicate their commitment to diversity and inclusion in the recruiting process, there are a lot of questions on... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 2012
- Book
Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. Talk, Inc. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- August 2013
- Article
Lords of the Harvest: Third-party Influence and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park
Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision making. We posit that regulatory agencies are influenced by the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and... View Details
Hiatt, Shon R., and Sangchan Park. "Lords of the Harvest: Third-party Influence and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms." Academy of Management Journal 56, no. 4 (August 2013): 923–944.
- Web
Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity
Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group Researchers Anjali Bhatt Anjali Bhatt is an Assistant Professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS and a... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries