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- 15 May 2019
- News
Jeremy Grantham on the Battle to Save Society from Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Winning’
own environmental foundation and currently directs half of his foundation’s grants to “communications and research into the psychology of denial” to help improve messaging. Part of that messaging, the article notes, includes localizing... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work life: how events in the... 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
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Making Things Right for Those Who’ve Been Done Wrong
suffered from these issues have a wide variety of needs. We provide comprehensive services: housing, legal, psychological services, and general support for how to manage in the world for people who not only don’t have all the basics in... 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
- News
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
- 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 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Elton Mayo (ca. 1946): Supervision attuned to a worker’s psychological needs rather than based on fear or coercion would produce, Mayo believed, “a major revolution in industrial method” and “an almost incredible human advance.” Fritz J.... View Details
- 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 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
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individuals to whom you are speaking or writing to begin thinking, 'You know, maybe this guy . . . does have a valid point.' " From Pareto's optimal outcomes to Plato's Republic, the authors draw on academic research, classical philosophy, and contemporary View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
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
- News
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
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
GREENWALD: A savvy, successful approach that combines marketing tactics and psychological insight. Can Rachel win NBC's "Match Off"? Her story: how Rachel met Brad The veteran of several high-level marketing positions, Rachel Greenwald... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
sisters to private school and providing them with a culturally rich home life — this bright young woman, whose Nigerian first name means “Thank God,” has made it a priority to help children who have not been as fortunate as she. As a View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
once it’s safe to return to the office. PART ONE An Excerpt from Remote Work Revolution Distant but Connected Even if remote teams do a good job of promoting inclusivity and psychological safety, the remote format is an inherently... View Details
- 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