Group Identity - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

employed full time and reported high levels of clinical depression or anxiety, as well as those experiencing workplace distress, with signs of presenteeism or burnout. One group was given full access to the Happify platform, which offers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

legacy, rebuild the in-person community, and foster engagement throughout the identity cross-sections that exist at Harvard. Maiky Iberkleid Szainrok I first interacted with LASO during the application process when they co-hosted an “Ask... View Details

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

past 21 years I have been a collision of the world my family left behind and the one we lived in now. We formed our own dialect of English-Indonesian, I ate American food for lunch and Asian food for dinner, and I accepted my identity as... View Details

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

educators, teachers, and role models. They see themselves as administrators and their identity is not based on teaching. All I am inviting them to do is to reflect and ask themselves how their day would unfold differently if they saw... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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What Black Executives Really Want

studied how across the world, for centuries, different groups of people have been marginalized. I thought I understood racism in America—but I did not. George Floyd's murder and other recent tragic events really brought the problem home.... View Details

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

started 14 years ago with an email from Franklin Leonard, a development executive in Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, asking a select group of friends to let him know if they’d read any good scripts in the past year. He aggregated... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

Linda Hill's book for the star performer-turned-new-manager, Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity appeared a decade ago to much acclaim. Much of the original book is still fresh today. But a new edition, Becoming a Manager: How... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

said, there are certain deadlines that must be met with the goal of keeping the majority of the group focused on the same topics to maximize social interactions. Details on individual course or program requirements are communicated to... View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

working parents and eldercare providers) or those interested in similar topics (baking or jigsaw puzzles) share information, recipes, items for sale or barter, and the like. Keep such forums tied to the organization’s identity and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

He wrote: “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” In this vein, we were given a generous 20 words to introduce an essential part of our identity to our classmates. I wrote: 1919 the 19th amendment 1972 Title IX 1973 Roe v. Wade 2019 Here I... View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize resumes, diversify interview panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria. Integration. Create opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

building not-for-profit groups to pursue their mission. Businesses in this era focused on compliance with a rising body of legislation and public policies designed to mitigate what were then seen as environmental excesses. The social... View Details

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Diversity, Social Indentity, and Performance: Emergent Social Dynamics in Cross-functional Teams

By: G. Northcraft, J. Polzer, M. Neale and R. Kramer

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Identity; Performance; Diversity

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19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

just by changing something minor in the onboarding process." Identity Experiments In the field experiment, the researchers divided batches of new call agents into an individual identity group, an... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

not manage a united front. Ukrainians in various parts of the country, as it turned out, contested the content of Ukrainian national identity differently. And the politics of language—Ukraine is divided into three linguistic View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

6 Jun 2002 - 9 Jun 2002
Conference Presentation

Perceived Individual Creativity in Organizational Teamwork as a Function of Personality and Gender

By: Giovanni Moneta, Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth Schatzel and Steven J. Kramer

Keywords: Gender; Organizations; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Identity; Perception

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Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting

encourages her participants to think about their various identities, which of those identities holds privilege, and which of those identities are marginalized. “Every ‘-ism’ (racism, ableism, sexism,... View Details

24 Feb 2017
Blog Post

Advice for Prospective Latino Students

didn’t recognize the deep identity challenges that Latinos growing up in other parts of America face. Going to undergrad, I was torn between associating myself too much with Latino communities that could categorize and place me in a... View Details

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization

Consider Your Identities Manso-Brown also encourages her participants to think about their various identities, which of those identities holds privilege, and which of those View Details