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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational View Details
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All Industries
- 20 Oct 2020
- News
Why Work-from-Anywhere Is Here to Stay
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Karen A. Jehn, and Martin Euwema Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract Contrary to much boundary spanning research, we examined the negative consequences of boundary spanning contact in multi-organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
says. "People adapt to almost anything, and adaptation is a constant in human nature, even when it comes to something good. So you want to alternate [the emotion] to really get them hooked." Next Steps Of course, capturing attention is...
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- 12 Aug 2009
- News
High Commitment, High Performance Management
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy C. Edmondson (Jossey-Bass) The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Edmondson says that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well their teams work....
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- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the quality of the pool has deteriorated,” he says. “The incumbent...
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by Rachel Layne
- 20 Aug 2015
- News
Note to Amazon: Run More Tests on Workplace Practices
- January 2021
- Case
Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex
By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Amitabh Chandra and Amram Migdal
The operating executives of Health and Benefits for Onex Partners, Megan Jackson Frye and Sam Camens, faced a challenge: Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends...
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Decision Making;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Decisions;
Finance;
Behavioral Finance;
Insurance;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Human Resources;
Compensation and Benefits;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Consumer Behavior;
Social Psychology;
Behavior;
Interests;
Motivation and Incentives;
Perception;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
North America;
United States
Schwartzstein, Joshua, Amitabh Chandra, and Amram Migdal. "Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex." Harvard Business School Case 921-023, January 2021.
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
integrate technical and behavioral finance, organizational behavior, and ethics to better prepare future leaders — and also focus more cases on the proper role of boards. Once directors are properly trained, it is crucial that they...
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- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Arousal on Motivation and Behavior Author:Deepak Malhotra Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (in press) Abstract The paper theoretically...
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Martha Lagace
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton
all-too-rare students who want to get trained as social scientists, but in the pursuit of important problems. Grant: I feel extraordinarily fortunate to work with Mike. He once guessed that only 3% of human View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
human beings, but we have adapted to the Internet world." Growing slowly and deliberately has served Southwest well, the study concludes. And taking the extra time to re-cruit and train staff, to use technology carefully, to control costs...
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- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
To what extent does a leader's inner life affect his or her behavior and actions toward other people? HBS professor emeritus Abraham Zaleznik, skilled in the practice of psychoanalysis and an admirer of the insights of Sigmund Freud, is...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
idea of a "European" style of management, pointing out that there is no one style. In some parts of Europe "(As a manager) I'm a human being." In others, "I'm just a number." In general "we (Europeans)...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a...
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- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book that reveals how to overcome this "depth deficit" and find the universal drivers of human View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
longer will access to incremental markets be the primary expansion driver; increasingly the drive must be to capture scarce sources of intellectual and human capital—strategic resources that can provide sustainable competitive advantage...
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by Staff
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
finding homes for dogs and vice versa. The Wagaroo website describes the company as “a team of fun humans with years of dog experience and a desire to create a healthier, happier marketplace for matching dogs and people.” “We can help...
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