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- February 2018
- Case
Aetna and the Transformation of Health Care
By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Russell Eisenstat and Matthew Preble
Mark Bertolini, chairman and CEO of the health insurer Aetna, faces a number of questions as he seeks to transform Aetna from a classic insurance company into a business that will engage much more deeply with its members around their personal health goals. His strategy... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Transformation; Behavior; Leading Change; Strategy; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; United States; Connecticut
Henderson, Rebecca M., Russell Eisenstat, and Matthew Preble. "Aetna and the Transformation of Health Care." Harvard Business School Case 318-048, February 2018.
- 05 Jun 2020
- News
How to recognize the signs of burnout from stress
- 28 Jun 2012
- News
The Made-in-China CEO
- 09 May 2017
- News
Why You Can’t Concentrate at Work
- 2005
- Chapter
Fundamentals for a World-Class Leadership Programme
Meaningful leadership development needs to incorporate emotional and often unconscious aspects of human behavior. This chapter describes a leadership program designed to provide opportunities to learn, in-depth and through personal experience, about the exercise of... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Emotions
Wood, Jack D., and Gianpiero Petriglieri. "Fundamentals for a World-Class Leadership Programme." In Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion, edited by Paul J. Strebel and Tracy Keys, 364–380. London: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2005.
- 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
Ordonez, Lisa D., Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman. "Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-083, January 2009.
Amy C. Edmondson
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details
- October 1988 (Revised December 1989)
- Case
Siemens Electric Motor Works (B): Pricing Interdivisional Sales
Examines Siemens' policy for pricing products transferred between the manufacturing and sales divisions of their Electric Motor Works, where both are profit centers. It is unique in that the organizational linkage between the product costing system and the transfer... View Details
Keywords: Production; Price; Organizational Structure; Profit; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry
Wruck, Karen. "Siemens Electric Motor Works (B): Pricing Interdivisional Sales." Harvard Business School Case 189-090, October 1988. (Revised December 1989.)
- Article
Celebrating the Work of Keith Murnighan
By: Donald E. Conlon, Max Bazerman, Deepak Malhotra and Madan M. Pillutla
In this tribute, four scholars highlight research published during the career of 2015 International Association for Conflict Management Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Keith Murnighan. In the four sections of the paper, each scholar highlights one of Keith’s... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management
Conlon, Donald E., Max Bazerman, Deepak Malhotra, and Madan M. Pillutla. "Celebrating the Work of Keith Murnighan." Negotiation and Conflict Management Research 9, no. 4 (November 2016): 332–344.
- 16 May 2017
- News
The Enduring Work of David A. Garvin
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
Although CEOs hold positions of power, many can feel powerless in certain ways—particularly when it comes to influencing the behaviors and performance of their employees. Yet perhaps they aren’t taking the time to understand what drives... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 2011
- Working Paper
Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor
By: Faaiza Rashid and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper explicates the challenge of risky trust, which we define as trust that exists between parties vulnerable to high economic, legal, or reputational risks at individual or organizational levels. Drawing from analyses of data collected in a grounded case study... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Business Processes; Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty; Trust; Construction Industry; United States
Rashid, Faaiza, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-089, February 2011.
- 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
DeCelles, K. A., Paul E. Tesluk, and Faye S. Taxman. "A Field Investigation of Multilevel Cynicism Toward Change." Organization Science 24, no. 1 (January–February 2013): 154–171.
David Shin
David Shin is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research explores how technological innovation shapes relationships at work, particularly as it... View Details
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
- 2010
- Chapter
Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges
By: Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode
We use the experience of Carly Fiorina as an introduction to the continued challenges faced by women in top leadership roles. Although Fiorina, on becoming CEO of Hewlett Packard in 1999, asserted that "there is not a glass ceiling," her memoir eight years later... View Details
Ely, Robin J., and Deborah L. Rhode. "Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges." Chap. 14 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- 2010
- Chapter
A Contingency Theory of Leadership
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The idea of a contingency theory of leadership is not novel. In the 1960s several scholars conducted research and proposed such an approach arguing that the style of leadership that would be most effective depended upon the situation (Fiedler, Tannenbaum and Schmidt,... View Details
Lorsch, Jay W. "A Contingency Theory of Leadership." Chap. 15 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
Max H. Bazerman
Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details