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  • 04 May 2021
  • News

Workplace Diversity: Managers Must Build a Culture of Belonging

  • 14 Apr 2016
  • News

The Secret Weapon For Collaboration

  • January 2013 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Beth Stewart: Navigating the Boardroom

By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
After rising through the ranks of Corporate America, Beth Stewart has become a corporate director on the board of General Growth Properties. Stewart is struggling with how to address her mounting concerns over the financial health of the growing large publically traded... View Details
Keywords: Career Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Boards Of Directors; Board Dynamics; Career Planning; Independent Directors; Leadership; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • 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
Keywords: Managing People; Humor; Leadership; Relationships
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  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Aiyesha Dey
Professor Dey’s research explores governance and agency conflicts, board structure, governance regulation and corporate behavior, ownership structure, and the relation between executives’ characteristics and corporate behavior. In analyzing corporate governance... View Details
  • Research Summary

Business Leaders and Corporate Responsibility

By: Thomas R. Piper
Thomas R. Piper is trying to establish an appropriate sense of ethics and corporate responsibility for future business leaders. Earlier research provided compelling evidence that many future leaders seriously doubt that their interpersonal ethics can be brought into... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. I outline the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2009
  • Case

Wolf Elmore Brewer, Inc.

By: John A. Davis
This case describes how Alex Wolf, the founder of a small architecture and urban planning firm based in Portland, Oregon, decides to offer partnership to two trusted colleagues, and then how strains develop in their relationship. It asks what can be done to improve... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict Management
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  • May–June 2018
  • Article

The Surprising Power of Questions

By: Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John
Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart in a tense negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Communication Strategy; Information; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 26 Mar 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact

Keywords: by Michelle A. Shell and Ryan W. Buell; Health
  • January 22, 2020
  • Article

Making Honest Conversations the Norm

By: Michael Beer
Much admired companies like Boeing and Wells Fargo sacrifice their competitive advantage. Some make huge ethical blunders. As a result, shareholders suffer huge losses in value while employees, customers, and society lose trust and confidence in the institution. Based... View Details
Keywords: Honesty; Interpersonal Communication; Framework; Organizational Culture; Trust; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 06 Oct 2023
  • Book

Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week

strengthen the relationship at the core of the problem. Brainstorm and test strategies for building or rebuilding trust. Frei: “If there is a problem, in our experience, trust is broken down. Any time you have View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

tasks It’s hard to be effective without knowledge-sharing, teamwork, and shared decision-making. These require an element of interpersonal ease. People who feel psychologically safer work better in teams because they can share information... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

strong beliefs in the meaning of their work experience better performance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54523 Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

Behaviour, Assistant Professor Dissertation: Conversational Cues, Interpersonal Judgements, and the Decision to Speak Advisors: Alison Wood Brooks (Chair), Francesca Gino , Lindred Greer , and Ethan Burris Evan DeFilippis Organizational... View Details
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

not even be aware of how much someone’s facial attributes are driving interpersonal judgments,” Zhang says. An empirical method for capturing charisma Traditionally, people assess charisma based on personality. However, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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    Chiu, C-y, Morris, M.W., Hong, Y-y, & Menon, T. (2000).  Motivated cultural cognition: The impact of implicit cultural theories on dispositional attribution varies as a function of Need for Closure.... View Details

    • 13 Jun 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

    as much attention." Since feeling seen and heard is important, extroverts who seem to focus on themselves may lose credibility with colleagues, the findings suggest. The research has ramifications for workplace relationships, especially as teams try to rebuild View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 06 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Four Strategies for Making Concessions

    less in the way he has defined. The strategy of demanding and defining reciprocity plays out in a variety of contexts . . . My advice to the executive: When trust is low or when you're engaged in a one-shot negotiation, consider making... View Details
    Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
    • 07 Jun 2023
    • Blog Post

    My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

    motivations? How do you incentivize your employees? How do you work with others to create change? I came to HBS thinking that I would learn all the hard skills such as accounting and finance—which I did—but I also realized that a lot of the value from my time at HBS... View Details