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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
1950), a renowned sociologist and a member of the HBS faculty for 44 years, died in November at the age of 89. The School’s Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, and the author of 26 books, Lawrence was one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
Code of Change. Despite its importance, Beer and Nohria assert that the process of change remains poorly understood, and only a third of corporate change initiatives succeed. After encountering widely divergent assumptions by leading executives about View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
world’s top corporations. Why do some of these organizations enjoy generations of success while so many others flounder? “The answer,” say Lorsch and Tierney, “lies in the ability to develop and motivate star talent, while explicitly aligning individual needs with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
years, unit members have studied numerous organizations, ranging from Taco Bell to Intuit, to determine what maximizes profit and growth in service organizations. In so doing, they have formulated a key business dynamic that they term the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
organizational negotia- tions. To add realism, the unit's faculty has scrambled the sections for this course so that students encounter both familiar and unfamiliar faces across their classroom bargaining table. "The role of informal... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
organizational settings. (One such useful psychoanalytic concept is "splitting," a defense mechanism against anxiety in which the individual ascribes positive attributes to one entity—usually one's own group—while imbuing another group... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
HBS faculty in 1980 and teaching organizational behavior, in 1985 he decamped to Au Bon Pain, the chain of bakery cafés, serving as COO for several years before returning to HBS. At the School again until 1998, he taught, wrote books, and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
later informed her doctoral research in the School’s Organizational Behavior program. “I sat in one of the seats closest to the blackboards. I had a perfect view of the whole section,” recalls Fernandes. From there she saw a hierarchy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics involved in execution. I felt like I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
employers. As we approached the end of the 20th century we began to question whether the course content was right for the new millennium. Were we developing the kind of leaders needed for our increasingly dynamic global knowledge economy?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
support the clubs’ administrative functions. Substantial progress was made, and we look forward to announcing significant improvements in these areas in the coming weeks. The Communications Committee, chaired by Byron Carlock (MBA ’88), spent the majority of its time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
University of Pennsylvania Creary studies the dynamics of inclusion and allyship in organizations. She has been associated with the HBS community since 2007, as Professor David Thomas’s research associate, as a member of Professor Robin... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
leadership practices and organizational culture in the business world.” Beyond his near-weekly speaking engagements, Frey continues to help Utah’s economy as an angel investor who is focused on commercialization of technologies emerging... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
has one of the most dynamic K–12 education sectors in the country. The Los Angeles Unified School District has more charter schools than any other chartering agency, and [according to a 2014 report by Stanford’s Center for Research on... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
IT Management from 1960 to 2000 "Today¹s managers are grappling with the turbulent dynamics of the Information Age," says Richard L. Nolan, the School's William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology. The author of a new... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
orderly and linear way. In his new book, Technology Integration: Making Critical Choices in a Dynamic World, HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti presents a detailed analysis of what has become a vital challenge in every cutting-edge... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of business and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
by Assistant Professor Myra Hart. Working in self-selected teams, students may now spend up to a year on projects that explore organizational problem solving, industry or country analysis, or business plan development. A new field study... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
announced as the 2001 conference site. After two days packed with dynamic breakout sessions and inspiring keynote addresses by HBS faculty and some of the world's leading business executives, however, no one was laughing. The conference,... View Details