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- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022
Will They Ever Return to Normal? Research by Alberto Cavallo probes the complex interplay of product shortages, prices, and inflation. Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK Managers who let down their guard and acknowledge their employees' View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governing the Family-Run Business
business governance. Now, let's review the structures in a family business governance system. Effective governance requires forums for the examination of the complicated and often emotional family, business, and ownership issues that... View Details
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Student Research - Doctoral
gifts? Donations to 501(c)(3)'s are increasingly given unrestricted due to concerns that restrictions on use unduly constrain nonprofits. I study the effect of such funding on recipients using a $5B sample of MacKenzie Scott's gifts... 2025 Article Nature... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
critically important only up to a point [to employees], but the real motivation comes from an emotional connection that you feel—either that you are more highly valued than someone else because of the natural competitiveness of human... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Recent book: The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey Chair: Organizational Behavior Unit Intrigued by: "Emotional intelligence. Leaders have the emotional capacity to... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
every single discussion is made up of different kinds of conversations. And in general, those conversations fall into one of three buckets. There's these Practical Conversations, where we're talking about plans or we're solving problems. There's View Details
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Faculty & Research - Health Care
News Incentives Speed Up Operating Room Turnover Procedures Re: Susanna Gallani 27 Jun 2025 | EMORY Got emotional wellness app? It may be doing more harm than good. Re: Julian De Freitas 25 Jun 2025 | Harvard Gazette Funding Today,... View Details
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school which admitted 100 new rural students a year on a full scholarship basis. To select its students, IQanat conducted an “Olympiad,” a set of tests that assessed 50,000 students annually on academic abilities, emotional intelligence,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
All over the world, people in pain turn to rituals in the face of loss—no matter if it's the death of a loved one (dressing in black, for example), the end of a relationship (burning old love letters), or the crushing defeat in a Little League baseball game (graciously... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 2011
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Behavior; Happiness; Perception; Trust; Time Management; Resource Allocation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steve J. Kramer. The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
Jerry R. Green
Jerry R. Green
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
John Leverett Professor in the University
Harvard University
Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details
- 20 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
time, cause impaired immune functioning, hypertension, and memory loss). The result? In addition to causing the desired hormonal shift, the power poses led to increased feelings of power and a greater tolerance for risk. "We used to think that View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Joy Chen
diverse people in the way they think and what they aspire to. They’re the reason I’m here. They’re authentic and open to conversations that matter, to forming new emotional bonds and to growing themselves.” Joy applied the resources of... View Details
Elizabeth Sheprow
Elizabeth Sheprow is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School. She uses a humanistic lens to research people's emotions, relationships, and narrative dynamics at work.... View Details
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand your motivational drivers, emotional intelligence, and communication methods to establish a personal leadership style Apply or adapt your leadership style to meet specific... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)
focus is on truthful statements, the other side might view what they’re doing as very different in a way that really hurts the relationship in the future. People should realize more fully the consequences of their negotiating strategies.” Related Reading: How to Spot a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt
Blair Storie-Johnson Are you anxious about an upcoming job interview, public speaking engagement, or any other high-pressure workplace situation? Here’s a weird but now research-supported tip: Try taking a whiff of your sweetheart’s sweaty t-shirt. A recent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
that minor emotion induction, the anxious negotiators made lower initial offers and bartered less favorable prices than the neutral participants. Anxious buyers, for example, ended up with a $6.60 final profit versus $7.94 for those who... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Samrath Oberoi
emotion of a composition. My life has revolved around this silence – the negative space in music that to me represents those who lack a voice in society. I am also that white space. In the mirror every morning, as I adorn my head with a... View Details