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A Sense of Urgency
Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his... View Details- March 2015
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Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste
By: David F. Drake, Janice H. Hammond and Matthew G. Preble
The global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a number of aggressive targets by 2020 as part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's chief supply chain... View Details
Keywords: Food Waste; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Sustainable Supply Chains; Sustainable Operations; Organization Alignment; Environmental Sustainability; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Food; Agribusiness; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Forest Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia; Africa; Latin America; India
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It
Behavior best-seller list—thanks in part to corporate managers who distribute it to their employees as a lesson in accepting and anticipating change gracefully. But is that really the best message to send? Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Faculty & Research - Business History
Jeremy S. Friedman Business, Government and the International Economy 10 results Tarun Khanna Strategy 4 results Rakesh Khurana Organizational Behavior William C. Kirby General Management 3 results Nancy F. Koehn General Management 24... View Details
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Life at Harvard - Doctoral
Community Anil Doshi Technology & Operations Management Filippo Mezzanotti Business Economics Sarah Wolfolds Strategy Anastassia Fedyk Business Economics Alexandra C. Feldberg Organizational Behavior Rohan Kekre Business Economics Do Yoon... View Details
Matt DosSantos DiSorbo
I am a PhD student in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. My research focuses on Human-AI Collaboration. My advisor is Professor Kris Johnson Ferreira. Prior to HBS, I obtained an A.B. in Statistics from Harvard College and worked at BlackRock in New York... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
June 2016 PLoS ONE Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering By: Barnett, Ian, Tarun Khanna, and Jukka-Pekka Onnela Abstract—Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
and actual behavior, according to the authors. The rapidly developing field of behavioral ethics has described a decision-making process whereby we recognize what we should do—give equal weight to job candidates of all races, for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 2021
- Working Paper
Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences
By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power... View Details
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Transitioning Into Retirement: The Interplay of Self and Life Structure
By: Marcy Crary, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Kathy E. Kram, Teresa M. Amabile and Lotte Bailyn
This paper explores the psychological, social, and behavioral ways in which professionals end their corporate careers and reorient themselves and their lives in the transition from employment to retirement. Framed within life course theory, specifically the adult... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements
Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ryan W. Buell
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Behavior unit insisted on when he took over as CEO of Medtronic, the medical-devices company, in 1991. That's in part because George had experienced firsthand what Robert McNamara warned of—George worked under McNamara for several years... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
- 2012
- Chapter
The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
- 11 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
PublicationsThe Strategic Use of Brand Biographies Authors:Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, and Juliet Schor Publication:Research in Consumer Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of a brand biography to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
says Harvard Business School’s Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. “Every company has examples of people who persist in their behaviors as salespeople, and as a result they flame out as... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers
Suppose you’re in the market for a new selfie stick for an upcoming vacation. You see two models online—one that extends to 24 inches and the other to 16. Seems obvious that you’d pick the longer one, right? Bigger and better panoramic pics! Well, not necessarily. When... View Details
Paige Tsai
Paige Tsai is PhD candidate in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research broadly examines the effects of job design on employees. Her current projects explore the financial and well-being effects of holding multiple jobs,... View Details