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- 29 Jan 2025
- News
Talk Is Cheap. It Can Make You Rich.
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
Laugh a Little: Why We All Should Be Telling More Jokes
- 12 Jan 2025
- News
How to Have the Perfect Conversation — And Why It’s Good for You
- 29 Dec 2024
- News
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Office
- 08 Jul 2024
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Is Humor in Business Negotiation Ever Appropriate?
- 27 Oct 2022
- News
Why you should talk to more strangers
- 05 Nov 2017
- News
Mind Games
- 24 Jan 2017
- News
The Joke That Makes or Breaks You at Work
- March 2025
- Article
Boomerasking: Answering Your Own Questions
By: Alison Wood Brooks and Michael Yeomans
Humans spend much of their lives in conversation, where they tend to hold many simultaneous motives. We examine two fundamental desires: to be responsive to a partner and to disclose about oneself. We introduce one pervasive way people attempt to reconcile these... View Details
Brooks, Alison Wood, and Michael Yeomans. "Boomerasking: Answering Your Own Questions." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154, no. 3 (March 2025): 864–893.
- 24 Sep 2015
- News
What you really, really want
- 24 Sep 2018
- News
Want to Seem More Likable? Try This
- Web
TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Course Number 2227 Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Final Project We talk to people to achieve success in every aspect of business... View Details
- February 2023
- Teaching Note
SIMmersion: Simulating Crucial Conversations
By: Alison Wood Brooks and Julian Zlatev
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 923-040. View Details
- July–August 2020
- Article
Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User's Guide to Humor at Work
By: Brad Bitterly and Alison Wood Brooks
Humor is widely considered essential in personal relationships, but in leaders, it’s seen as an ancillary behavior. Though some leaders use humor instinctively, many more could wield it purposefully.
Humor helps build interpersonal trust and high-quality work... View Details
Bitterly, Brad, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User's Guide to Humor at Work." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 4 (July–August 2020): 96–103.
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Are SBICs Doing Their Job?
By: Samuel Hayes and Donald H. Woods
Hayes, Samuel, and Donald H. Woods. "Are SBICs Doing Their Job?" Harvard Business Review 41, no. 2 (March–April 1963): 6–19.
- 28 Sep 2014
- News
Living Big in the Little Moments
- 29 May 2020
- News