psychology - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2001
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J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)

missile and submarine. Fox went to the Pentagon in 1963 as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for management systems. After two years, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in psychology and to teach a course in project... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; J. Sterling Livingston; George P. Baker; Government

25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe

United States, for example, the American Psychological Association reports that one-third of workers experience chronic workplace stress. That stress costs American companies an estimated $300 billion a year in lost productivity,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

decision-making, social influence, and ethics. Gino’s work has been published in a number of journals and featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, and Psychology Today. A native of Italy, she earned her Ph.D. in economics and management... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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INK: Out of Exile

it’s your identity, but it might also be your ticket to freedom. It can be very psychologically damaging for your story to be both of those things. Eventually I landed in America and my story became a way to show people that I belonged;... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2004
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L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words

I’ve met literally thousands of Iraqis and I can tell you that every single one of them has had his or her family affected one way or the other by Saddam’s cruelty. Repairing the damage inflicted by Saddam – the material, human, and View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Mar 2016
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Ink

toolkits and you will find instruments for brain scanning and eye tracking, as well as experiments to test psychological and physiological responses. Beware, future MBAs: Can a cold call of a student’s galvanic skin response be far away?... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking

fees at 1 percent or higher, I get a really bad vibe from the fund. I think many consumers are wising up to how much fees eat into their portfolio performance over the long term, and 1 percent or more is a psychological threshold. —Louis... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

executive programs have substantial negotiation components as well. The unit's research methods include everything from analyzing negotiations in progress to psychological lab studies with subjects in negotiation experiments to running... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

30 Apr 2019
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Leading Schools That Change Lives

extension, mine,” he says. After earning a psychology degree from Boston College in 1998, Kennealey spent two years of community service in nearby Roxbury as a teacher at Nativity Prep, a tuition-free Jesuit middle school that serves boys... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work

Unit, and faculty chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS. For the past several years, Amabile, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University, has been analyzing findings from her longitudinal research on... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

30 May 2024
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Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

science of behavioral economics as it is applied to health care. Behavioral economics, which combines psychology and economics to understand individual decision-making and market outcomes, is the primary focus of Beshears’ research, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

up a genetics lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and earned a master's degree in social psychology from Boston University. "I came to HBS to get a degree that would be broad enough to apply to any area within the administration of... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

21 Mar 2014
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Where Bragging Is Bad

Keywords: personal branding; cross-cultural communication; self-promotion

10 Mar 2014
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Mindful Leaders for the C-Suite

Keywords: meditation; mindfulness; journaling; work-life balance; prayer

01 Sep 2003
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Books

of the Organizational Behavior unit and the HBS Leadership Initiative, believes that the process of becoming a manager requires both a significant psychological transition and a considerable amount of on-the-job training. In the second... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Jan 2017
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A Dog Walks into a Bar

Keywords: communication; jokes; humor; competency; faculty research

24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

the first days, and we had 1,600 people sheltered there the first night." Gokgoz and his team organized to get emergency supplies, food, blankets and other essentials. They provided communications support as well as financial and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation

automakers, but a psychological one,” Salter observes. “It required altering long-established methods, traditions, and ways of thinking. It comes down to this: How do you rewrite all the implicit, explicit, and inefficient contracts and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade