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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
missile and submarine. Fox went to the Pentagon in 1963 as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for management systems. After two years, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in psychology and to teach a course in project... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
population doubled from 500 million to 1 billion. There was and is—in terms of quality of property—still some catch-up to do. It’s said that China is in a better position than the developed world to elongate the business cycle using... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
United States, for example, the American Psychological Association reports that one-third of workers experience chronic workplace stress. That stress costs American companies an estimated $300 billion a year in lost productivity,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
Management. After completing his doctorate, Serafeim accepted a teaching position at HBS, one of eight newcomers to join the faculty. Serafeim, an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management Unit, teaches the first-year course... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
once it’s safe to return to the office. PART ONE An Excerpt from Remote Work Revolution Distant but Connected Even if remote teams do a good job of promoting inclusivity and psychological safety, the remote format is an inherently... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
From Das’s Desk
reunion model in several ways. First, we are taking a page from the positive response to the Insights program introduced at last year’s reunions. These sessions feature faculty members and other speakers addressing 10 key topics that... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
contexts while staying grounded in one's own natural style. Molinsky advises how to overcome the emotional and psychological impediments to doing so. Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
be. That’s my nature.” Although some inventors will create something and then see if there is a use for it, that wasn’t the case with the Soccket ball: it was created with a specific need in mind. “That’s why it was so important for me to study View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration (photo by Stu Rosner) MIKE LUCA, Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration (photo by Stu Rosner) Not long after, the pair discussed the tragedy in Newtown. As researchers working... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
giving—whether your attention or your money. Once ready to nudge yourself toward better, the book trains your eye on how to extend what you’ve learned and positively influence others. Melding philosophy and View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
Unit, and faculty chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS. For the past several years, Amabile, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University, has been analyzing findings from her longitudinal research on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
president of HSA and knew that she wanted to be an entrepreneur. She was offered a deferred admittance to HBS and took a position at Morgan Stanley after graduation. Her two years on Wall Street provided a strong foundation. “It was a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
concluded that we needed a relatively simple set of ideas to organize the course. First, we adopted a functional perspective, a concept that University Professor Bob Merton and a number of us have been working on for the last fifteen years. The functional perspective... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
still a win for humanity. Julian Zlatev: There’s been a long debate in psychology about whether people are truly altruistic: Is altruism really altruism if it reflects this warm glow or the self-interested reasons Christine is talking... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
position of clarity,” notes Steichen, who has also devoted much of the past twenty years to weaving together what she has learned from various spiritual and psychological disciplines. “The equivalent in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist, she rose through NGO management View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a View Details