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  • February 2022
  • Article

How Global Leaders Gain Power Through Downward Deference and Reduction of Social Distance

By: Tsedal Neeley and Sebastian Reiche
We theorize about how people with positional power enact downward deference—a practice of lowering oneself to be equal to that of lower power workers—based on a study of 115 top global leaders at a large U.S. company. These leaders were charged with advancing... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Style; Global Range; Relationships; Rank and Position; Power and Influence; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production

By: Ofer Arazy, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov and Irene Gurevych
Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing co-production community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how... View Details
Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Production; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing
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  • 16 Nov 2012
  • News

2 years after returning to stock markets, reborn GM piles up cash but faces turbulence

  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

company that resorted to inhumane means of reducing its workforce, according to a trio of case studies co-written by Cynthia Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Ashley Whillans,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Brian J. Hall

    Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; consulting; consumer products; executive search; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; private equity (LBO funds); restaurant; sports; venture capital industry
    • Research Summary

    Mutiny in the Workplace: When Leaders Are Challenged From Within

    My dissertation focuses on the rarely studied phenomenon of mutiny in organizations. Based on three recent cases of mutiny in professional organizations, I examine the process by which employee dissatisfaction transforms into collective mobilization... View Details

    • 18 Jun 2015
    • News

    Working Out With Your Co-Workers Is as Bad as You Think

      Leslie A. Perlow

      Leslie A. Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She leads the LIFE Special Project, dedicated to helping individuals make purposeful life choices while gathering insights that will... View Details

      • 17 Aug 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Unfinished Business: The Impact of Race on Understanding Mentoring Relationships

      Keywords: by Stacy Blake-Beard, Audrey Murrell & David Thomas
      • 25 Jun 2020
      • News

      How to Start a New Job Remotely, According to Experts

        Tiona W. Zuzul

        Tiona Zuzul is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches the MBA elective Making Difficult Decisions and contributes to various executive education programs. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders’ cognition and communication shape the decisions... View Details

        • 2009
        • Working Paper

        Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting

        By: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky and Max H. Bazerman
        Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and... View Details
        Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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          Alison Wood Brooks

          Alison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches a cutting-edge course in the MBA elective curriculum called "How... View Details

          • 2009
          • Chapter

          Becoming the Lamp Bearer: The Emerging Roles of the Chief Risk Officer

          By: Anette Mikes
          Enterprise risk management, under the leadership of chief risk officers (CROs), has the promise to bring enterprise-wide risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is... View Details
          Keywords: Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty
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          • Research Summary

          The Individualized Corporation

          By: Christopher A. Bartlett
          Christopher A. Bartlett has recently concluded (with Sumantra Ghoshal of the London Business School) a study of changing organizational processes and management roles in twenty diverse companies in various stages of corporate transformation. The research is expected... View Details
          • January 2004 (Revised July 2007)
          • Case

          Lumen and Absorb Teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering, The

          By: Teresa M. Amabile and Elizabeth Schatzel
          Large discrepancies have developed between two elite technology development teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering in terms of motivation and creativity. To investigate, Paul Burke, director of corporate technology development, commissioned a study of the day-by-day... View Details
          Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles; Projects; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives
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          • January–February 2013
          • Article

          A Field Investigation of Multilevel Cynicism Toward Change

          By: K. A. DeCelles, Paul E. Tesluk and Faye S. Taxman
          Although most research on cynicism toward change (CTC) has been conceptualized at the individual level, we propose that CTC is better conceptualized as a multilevel phenomenon, acting as both an employee attitude and an organizational climate. We conducted a multilevel... View Details
          Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Change Management; Attitudes
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          • 12 Sep 2018
          • News

          Celebrating A Landmark Book on Gender in the Workplace

          • Research Summary

          My research draws upon social and cultural theories to address three important topics in marketing: branding strategy, organizing to deliver creative content, and cultural consumer behavior:

          1)Branding Strategy: How are iconic brands built?

          I have... View Details

          • 31 Oct 2023
          • Research & Ideas

          Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

          Williams, a visiting fellow at Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). And perhaps even worse, DEI efforts based on the business case usually fail to address the root causes of inequality.... View Details
          Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis