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- March 2011
- Article
Meeting the Challenges of a Person-Centric Work Psychology
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
In this article, the authors discuss person-centric work psychology, a paradigm developed by H. M. Weiss and D. E. Rupp regarding daily work life psychology. They cited three challenges of the paradigm such as the collection, and analysis of data, the certainty of the... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steven J. Kramer. "Meeting the Challenges of a Person-Centric Work Psychology." Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice 4, no. 1 (March 2011): 116–121.
- October 1975 (Revised June 1983)
- Background Note
Understanding Communications in One-To-One Relationships
By: John J. Gabarro
Introduces the concepts of assumptions, perceptions and feelings, and applies these concepts to the problem of understanding the behavior that takes place between people in relationships. The note discusses a particular interaction that takes place between two men in a... View Details
Gabarro, John J. "Understanding Communications in One-To-One Relationships." Harvard Business School Background Note 476-075, October 1975. (Revised June 1983.)
- December 2016
- Article
The Effects of Endowment Size and Strategy Method on Third Party Punishment
By: Jillian J. Jordan, Katherine McAuliffe and David G. Rand
Numerous experiments have shown that people often engage in third-party punishment (3PP) of selfish behavior. This evidence has been used to argue that people respond to selfishness with anger, and get utility from punishing those who mistreat others. Elements of the... View Details
Keywords: Third-party Punishment; Norm-enforcement; Strategy Method; Economic Games; Cooperation; Emotions; Fairness
Jordan, Jillian J., Katherine McAuliffe, and David G. Rand. "The Effects of Endowment Size and Strategy Method on Third Party Punishment." Experimental Economics 19, no. 4 (December 2016): 741–763.
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
States a rich field of study and one that's a specialty for Harvard Business School professor Roy Chua. Chua, a native of Singapore who speaks fluent Mandarin, draws on human psychology to better understand important social processes in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- November 2022
- Article
My Boss' Passion Matters as Much as My Own: The Interpersonal Dynamics of Passion Are a Critical Driver of Performance Evaluations
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Andreas Wihler and Adam D. Galinsky
Companies often celebrate employees who successfully pursue their passion. Academic research suggests that these positive evaluations occur because of the passion percolating inside the employee. We propose that supervisors are also a key piece of this puzzle:... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Job Performance; Motivation; Emotions; Performance Evaluation; Interpersonal Communication
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Andreas Wihler, and Adam D. Galinsky. "My Boss' Passion Matters as Much as My Own: The Interpersonal Dynamics of Passion Are a Critical Driver of Performance Evaluations." Special Issue on Work Passion Research: Taming Breadth and Promoting Depth. Journal of Organizational Behavior 43, no. 9 (November 2022): 1496–1515.
- March 2024
- Case
Negotiating the Gift of Life (A)
By: Alex Chan
Describes a negotiation where lives are truly at stake, where key lessons on persuasion and the role that identity might play in a negotiation are on display through an effort by a frontline negotiator from OneLegacy, the US's largest organ procurement organization. As... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Negotiation; Communication; Diversity; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry
Chan, Alex. "Negotiating the Gift of Life (A)." Harvard Business School Case 924-020, March 2024.
- Article
How to Avoid Executive Stress
By: Thomas J. DeLong
When teaching various groups of executives, the author relates the story of a man addicted to prescription drugs and his brother who is addicted to achievement. Each group relates to these two professionally successful men and sees that they live largely on the edge of... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
Schooner (MBA 1983) and a group of social work students who were all working at two nonprofits—the Women’s Center and the Peace Neighborhood Center—in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The questions: “Why do men rape young girls?” and “Why don’t they... View Details
- 2011
- Chapter
Cognitive, Affective, and Special-interest Barriers to Policy Making
By: Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay and Max Bazerman
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 2016
- Article
Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs
By: Ovul Sezer and Michael I. Norton
Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We apply their model to processes lying in between the individual and the group—vicarious processes. We review literature in four domains—attitudes, emotions, moral... View Details
Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton. "Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (2016): e162.
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
world. They're no longer on that list, but Toyota now is. How did Toyota—and the other nine companies—do it? There are 5 characteristics that all top global brands have in common: 1. The same positioning worldwide. This provides a combination of functional product... View Details
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
Teresa M. Amabile's research centers on how the work environment can influence the motivation, creativity, and performance of individuals and teams. A recent study focused on the influence of team leaders on these factors. Professor Amabile and New Business publisher... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- Article
AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
By: Julian De Freitas, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet K. Uğuralp and Stefano Puntoni
Chatbots are now able to engage in sophisticated conversations with consumers in the domain of relationships, providing a potential coping solution to widescale societal loneliness. Behavioral research provides little insight into whether these applications are... View Details
De Freitas, Julian, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet K. Uğuralp, and Stefano Puntoni. "AI Companions Reduce Loneliness." Journal of Consumer Research (in press). (Pre-published online June 25, 2025.)
- July 2019
- Article
Which of These Things Are Not Like the Others? Comparing the Rational, Emotional, and Moral Aspects of Reputation, Status, Celebrity, and Stigma
By: Timothy G. Pollock, Kisha Lashley, Violina P. Rindova and Jung-Hoon Han
In this review of the literature on reputation, status, celebrity, and stigma we develop an overarching theoretical framework based on the rational, emotional, and moral aspects of each construct’s unique sociocognitive content and the mechanisms through which it... View Details
Pollock, Timothy G., Kisha Lashley, Violina P. Rindova, and Jung-Hoon Han. "Which of These Things Are Not Like the Others? Comparing the Rational, Emotional, and Moral Aspects of Reputation, Status, Celebrity, and Stigma." Academy of Management Annals 13, no. 2 (July 2019).
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
through the collaborative process." He also notes that "in cross-sector social-purpose collaborations, unlike commercial business alliances, an essential ingredient for strong leadership involvement is an emotional connection individuals... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
particular social or work settings." While agreeing in general, Ann Parker voiced a note of caution: "All leaders at times mask their feelings, especially fear or uncertainty. The danger is that for some they begin to believe... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 2020
- Article
Humanizing Management and Innovation
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
This article is an excerpt from The Wise Company book that Ikujiro Nonaka and I published in
October 2019 from Oxford University Press. It is a sequel to The Knowledge-Creating Company
book we published 25 years ago.
As our thinking evolved from information to... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Creation; Knowledge Practice; Phronesis; Practical Wisdom; Ba; Continuous Innovation; Fusion Of Analog And Digital; Management As A Way Of Life; Management Style; Emotions; Innovation and Management
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Humanizing Management and Innovation." Kindai Management Review 8 (2020): 20–29.
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
The Real Meaning of Love
and her death was avoidable. If she and her friends and her family had had any information about the warning signs of an abusive relationship and what the earliest phases look like, steps could have been taken to save her life. “One Love is focused on educating young... View Details