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- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
Administration at HBS and is also formally affiliated with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Psychology Department, Center on the Environment, and Program on Negotiation. Predictable Surprises (HBS Press) was published in 2004. You... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Research Brief: Great Expectations
treat other people and the expectations we hold drive how they turn out.” His findings appear in the paper, “The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others,” published in the Journal... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud
Integrating research streams from psychology and marketing, Associate Professor Anat Keinan has conducted a series of experiments to investigate the conditions under which new customers can enhance a prestige brand’s image. Drawing an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
recommends. Taken together, the three books offer readers an encyclopedic exploration of the practice of experimentation, insight into some of the psychology in play, and a field primer to put it all into action, Liedtka says. Testing... View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
managed [the typical MBA student] is like trying to teach psychology to someone who has never met another human being," says Mintzberg. In the first half of his book, he sharpens his claws on HBS professor Michael Porter, arguing that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
unconscious and often visual, for the last decade Zaltman has solicited visual images from subjects to chart thoughts about a wide array of products. While skeptics may see the ZMET as a passing fad, others consider it evidence of a growing trend toward the use of... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- News
Leading Schools that Change Lives
Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) studied business at Harvard and has a psychology degree from Boston College. But in a career spent leading schools that transform students’ lives, he also draws regularly on his training as an EMT. “It’s all... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
into the conscious part of the brain, affecting its operation -- a phenomenon familiarly known as the "fight-or-flight" response. While this reaction is invaluable in the face of physical threat, Jensen noted, "it is also generated by the threat of emotional or View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
the medium term, to this government manipulation other than investor psychology? —Jim Daley (MBA 1986) KIRBY: Investor psychology probably is the biggest risk, but another is an overreliance on hard infrastructure investments (roads,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
were somewhat unexpected: Teams with higher scores for these factors also had higher detected error rates. Do better-managed teams make more mistakes? Not necessarily. People are more likely to own up to their shortcomings — and, one hopes, to learn from them — if they... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
truly enjoyed me and that my father's Sicilian relatives gave me so much love," she says. That encouragement - combined with her father's military benefits - enabled her to attend Bennington College, where she majored in psychology and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
majored in psychology as an undergraduate at Brown University and continued to develop that interest through the study of hakomi, a method of body-centered psychotherapy. Until recently, he also volunteered in the Young Presidents'... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
the program. A PRIMO fellow last summer, Castro, a psychology major at Harvard College, was born in Dallas and raised in Central Mexico. Paired with Assistant Professor Susanna Gallani, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit at... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
From Das’s Desk
nature of these sessions—incorporating reflective exercises, workshops, and increased audience interaction—will be seen in a number of other sessions this spring. Most notable among these will be a presentation and discussion on happiness led by former Harvard View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
over a five-month period, she observed 8 teams and surveyed some 427 employees. Edmondson found that members of teams with higher levels of psychological safety (those characterized by greater mutual respect and trust) were more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
contexts while staying grounded in one's own natural style. Molinsky advises how to overcome the emotional and psychological impediments to doing so. Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
recommend Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us, by Brian Klaas, and Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, by Kim Scott (MBA 1996). —Christa Quarles (MBA 2000) Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
cash, credit cards, loyalty points, foreign currency—varies considerably. So if you allow people to pay what they want in different forms of currency, will your overall revenues be higher as a result of those psychological differences?... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
landing on an aircraft carrier in darkness, flying combat missions over Korea, breaking the sound barrier, and then teaching others to do the same. This is the story of that journey. The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
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