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  • 2020
  • Article

Worry at Work: How Organizational Culture Promotes Anxiety

By: Jeremy A. Yip, Emma E. Levine, Alison Wood Brooks and Maurice E. Schweitzer
Organizational culture profoundly influences how employees think and behave. Established research suggests that the content, intensity, consensus, and fit of cultural norms act as a social control system for attitudes and behavior. We adopt the norms model of... View Details
Keywords: Anxiety; Norms; Stress; Culture; Tightness-looseness; Curvilinear; Organizational Culture; Emotions; Performance
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  • 30 May 2024
  • News

How to Have Effective Conversations

every single discussion is made up of different kinds of conversations. And in general, those conversations fall into one of three buckets. There's these Practical Conversations, where we're talking about plans or we're solving problems. There's View Details
  • 21 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

It’s a philosophical debate as old as time: What is the secret to leading a meaningful life? For many, the question gained new urgency after years of social distancing and upheaval during the COVID-19 pandemic. After surviving a public... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
  • 23 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

that minor emotion induction, the anxious negotiators made lower initial offers and bartered less favorable prices than the neutral participants. Anxious buyers, for example, ended up with a $6.60 final profit versus $7.94 for those who... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

time, cause impaired immune functioning, hypertension, and memory loss). The result? In addition to causing the desired hormonal shift, the power poses led to increased feelings of power and a greater tolerance for risk. "We used to think that View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 2011
  • Book

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Behavior; Happiness; Perception; Trust; Time Management; Resource Allocation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 4 Modules, 35-40 Hours Download full syllabus 1 hrs Prework 360° Emotional and Social Competency Inventory In the first two weeks after... View Details
  • 2015
  • Book

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

By: Amy Cuddy
We often meet life's challenges with fear and anxiety. We fail to be our best and end up feeling regretful and powerless. In Presence, Amy Cuddy presents a scientifically grounded way to align our speech and nonverbal behavior with our beliefs, abilities, and... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Attitudes; Emotions
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

related hypotheses across six experiments: (1) Given people's lay theories about the capacities for cognition and emotion for robots and humans, workers will express more discomfort with botsourcing when they consider losing jobs that... View Details
  • Profile

Joy Chen

which I could learn from the best and potentially have more independent agency as a young person.” Exploring opportunities, seeking inspiration Joy’s business career took her from nonprofits to financial services (Fidelity Investments), the apparel industry (Levi’s),... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

in recent years, Minson added. “Arguments have become more accusatory and more emotional,” she said. She blames social media. “It’s become so much easier to surround yourself with people who agree with you. Now you can go online and... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

become a proving ground for women, with costs similar to those identified for men. A woman social worker, for example, invested in proving her emotional availability (a socially-approved "feminine"... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

today's business environment, says Roy Y.J. Chua, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who has focused his research on exploring how such collaboration can effectively take place. A graduate of Columbia Business School,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

that these are the most difficult times in memory for many, if not most people. Parents struggle to balance the demands of remote work and homeschooling. Employees who live alone strain to stay focused while isolated from loved ones and traditional View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Entrepreneurship (5) Corporate Finance (12) Corporate Governance (33) Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact (121) Corporate Strategy (97) Cost Accounting (3) Cost Management (9) Cost of Capital (1) Cost vs Benefits (8) Cost (15)... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

business." Race is clearly "unfinished business" because of the plethora of conflicting emotions that are unleashed as we approach the taboo (Thomas, 1989). This tension speaks to the importance of this chapter as we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

outright to their faces.” The paper, forthcoming in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, was co-written with Harvard Business School’s Michael I. Norton, the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration; Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

work to relax and enjoy the small, affordable luxury of a special coffee beverage seemed to resonate with the social and economic moment, she recalls. Six months later she met Howard Schultz, an entrepreneur who acquired the company in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • 15 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Shaky Business: How Handshakes Win Negotiations

the table, according to their paper, “Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent,” forthcoming in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. To shake, or not to shake? In one experiment, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding