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- 2022
- Working Paper
Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations
By: Miguel Espinosa and Christopher T. Stanton
We study direct productivity changes and spillovers after a randomized training program for the frontline workers in a Colombian government agency. While trained workers improved their individual production, we also find substantial spillovers that affected managers'...
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Keywords:
Spillovers;
Labor Productivity;
Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior;
Training;
Performance Productivity
Espinosa, Miguel, and Christopher T. Stanton. "Training, Communications Patterns, and Spillovers Inside Organizations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30224, July 2022. (Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Political Economy .)
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
the successful management of all financial aspects of a business venture. Sales. Measures skills and behaviors needed to build an effective sales organization and sales channel that can successfully acquire,...
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by HBS Working Knowledge
- 2017
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Organizational Behavior Reading: Leading Organizational Change
By: Ryan Raffaelli
This reading combines conceptual frameworks and research-based knowledge to provide practical guidance about how to lead organization change. The essential reading outlines key choices leaders must make when managing a change and the common traps that can cause a...
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Raffaelli, Ryan. "Organizational Behavior Reading: Leading Organizational Change." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing 8324, 2017.
- 2008
- Chapter
Cross-cultural Research in Organizational Behavior
By: Heidi K. Gardner and P. Christopher Earley
Globalization and regionalization of business have increasingly compelled researchers to integrate the concept of cultural variation into business research and practice. This chapter addresses how culture links to organizational phenomena at the individual, group, and...
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Keywords:
Values and Beliefs;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Organizational Culture;
Research;
Behavior;
Culture
Gardner, Heidi K., and P. Christopher Earley. "Cross-cultural Research in Organizational Behavior." In The Sage Handbook of Organizational Behavior. 2 vols. Edited by C.L. Cooper, J. Barling, and S. Clegg. Sage Publications, 2008.
- July 2020
- Article
The Role of Interdependence in the Microfoundations of Organization Design: Task, Goal, and Knowledge Interdependence
By: Marlo Raveendran (formerly Goetting), Luciana Silvestri and Ranjay Gulati
Interdependence is a core concept in organization design, yet one that has remained consistently understudied. Current notions of interdependence remain rooted in seminal works, produced at a time when managers’ near-perfect understanding of the task at hand drove the...
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Interdependence;
Organizational Behavior;
Work Design;
Organizational Design;
Goals and Objectives;
Knowledge Sharing
Raveendran (formerly Goetting), Marlo, Luciana Silvestri, and Ranjay Gulati. "The Role of Interdependence in the Microfoundations of Organization Design: Task, Goal, and Knowledge Interdependence." Academy of Management Annals 14, no. 2 (July 2020): 828–868.
- 1979
- Article
Organizational Behavior for Executives
By: Roy Lewicki and John J. Gabarro
Lewicki, Roy, and John J. Gabarro. "Organizational Behavior for Executives." Exchange: The Organizational Behavior Teaching Journal 4, no. 4 (1979).
- June 2020
- Article
The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations
By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai and Katherine L. Milkman
We highlight a feature of personnel selection decisions that can influence the gender diversity of groups and teams. Specifically, we show that people are less likely to choose candidates whose gender would increase group diversity when making personnel selections in...
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Keywords:
Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making;
Organizational Studies;
Decision Analysis;
Economics;
Decision Making;
Behavior;
Analysis;
Organizations;
Diversity;
Gender
Chang, Edward H., Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, and Katherine L. Milkman. "The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations." Management Science 66, no. 6 (June 2020): 2752–2761.
- March 2023
- Article
Giving-by-proxy Triggers Subsequent Charitable Behavior
By: Samantha Kassirer, Jillian J. Jordan and Maryam Kouchaki
How can we foster habits of charitable giving? Here, we investigate the potential power of giving-by-proxy experiences, drawing inspiration from a growing trend in marketing and corporate social responsibility contexts in which organizations make charitable...
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Kassirer, Samantha, Jillian J. Jordan, and Maryam Kouchaki. "Giving-by-proxy Triggers Subsequent Charitable Behavior." Art. 104438. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 105 (March 2023).
- November 2012
- Article
The Organization of Firms Across Countries
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local...
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Keywords:
Decentralization;
Social Capital;
Theory Of The Firm;
Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior;
Business Economics;
Management Of Technological Innovation And R&D;
Technological Change: Choices And Consequences;
Diffusion Processes;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Productivity;
Trust;
Technology Adoption;
Multinational Firms and Management
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "The Organization of Firms Across Countries." Quarterly Journal of Economics 127, no. 4 (November 2012). (Slides from 2008, Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-005, August 2011.)
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
emotional feeling of guilt. The researchers asked 67 college undergraduates to complete a series of tasks that involved recalling past guilt-inducing behavior, confronting an opportunity to cheat, and choosing whether to eat a piece of chocolate or an View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
The Architecture of the Integrated Organization
By: Ranjay Gulati
In this research I explore how organizations balance pressures for efficiency with the need to be responsive at the same time. Operating in turbulent global markets it is increasingly important for firms to embrace both global efficiency and also local responsiveness....
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- 1987
- Book
The Handbook of Organizational Behavior
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Lorsch, Jay W., ed. The Handbook of Organizational Behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1987.
- December 2015
- Case
Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work: Adjusting as a CEO
By: Boris Groysberg and Ann Leamon
Groysberg, Boris, and Ann Leamon. "Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work: Adjusting as a CEO." Harvard Business School Case 416-036, December 2015.
- 05 Jan 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers
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Re: Ashley V. Whillans
- 31 Jan 2011
- News
Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior
- June 1999
- Course Overview Note
Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Course Overview (Abridged)
By: Linda A. Hill
Course overview for the first-year required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD).
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Hill, Linda A. "Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Course Overview (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 499-067, June 1999.
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
will be engaged in every item of behavior that takes place at work. Likewise, all the other people engaged with the focal organization—its customers, its shareholders and creditors, its suppliers, its neighbors and its regulators—will...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- autumn 1980
- Article
A Model for Diagnosing Organizational Behavior
By: D. Nadler and Michael Tushman
Nadler, D., and Michael Tushman. "A Model for Diagnosing Organizational Behavior." Organizational Dynamics 9, no. 2 (autumn 1980): 35–51.