Cultural Psychology - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2024
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Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry

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02 Jul 2024
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Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

defensive back, and maybe he saw some innate coaching potential (my superpower) in the way I interacted with the other kids. Whatever the case may be, that capability, especially that coaching and encouraging potential, was the groundwork for the success I was able to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2023
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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations

culture that impacts employee experience at an even deeper level, and can have a significant impact on the company’s bottom line, is psychological safety. WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

transitions is surprising. In part, I think it's due to a "sink or swim" managerial culture that is present in most companies. Transitions are treated as testing experiences—what I have come to call leadership development... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

Each of these executives restored their people's confidence in themselves and in one another—a necessary antecedent to restoring investor or public confidence. They inspired and empowered their organizations to take new actions that could renew profitability. In short,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

17 Nov 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

office or leading the family are less likely to foster a culture of growth, risk taking, and wealth creation. According to Jeremy Dean, a researcher at University College London, optimists prefer to think about how they and others can... View Details

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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

participation. This seemingly simple practice goes a long way in creating an organizational culture that achieves excellence not by fearing failure, but by identifying problem areas and coming up with innovative solutions. HOW TO... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

how it works); illuminates the challenges of bringing billions of dollars in private capital to bear on social problems; identifies smart public policies that promote social innovation; and recommends specific investment opportunities. Global Dexterity: How to Adapt... View Details

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Cultural Identity Expression: Expectations and Willingness to Express" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Rachel Arnett, Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School, presents "Minority View Details

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

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

possibly was another example unfolded. As reader Anna Johnson put it, “When the pressure to meet quarterly performance expectations against best-guess sales targets and a flesh pounding schedule take precedence, it’s not surprising that View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

also scored high on an attribute called "cultural metacognition," a psychological scale measuring the degree to which people examine their own cultural preconceptions when interacting with someone... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

psychology of gender and power at work, specializing in the relationship between organizational culture and sexual harassment. Berdahl regularly presents her research to professional, media, and academic... View Details

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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

risk-taking. Learn how to assemble a team with the diversity and expertise to solve problems, build buy-in for cultural change, and overcome resistance. Highlights Breakthrough Innovation Success Input Value High Standards and View Details

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Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

University community at large. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth The Fearless Organization , published by HBS Professor Amy C. Edmondson , helps companies tackle... View Details

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

leader development in the Army. We saw professional identity as having the same type of conceptual promise at the individual level as organizational culture has at the unit level. Q: The Army has a "Be, Know, and Do" framework... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an organization's culture; the other half... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

and to work reliably and effectively, they were willing to do that. How did the change in culture benefit the company? These organizational changes, which were instituted around the company as a whole, resulted in an 84 percent decline in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

Most ethical principles are pretty unambiguously good. Honesty, fairness, compassion—sure they have their downsides (being “honest to a fault”), but that’s more a by-product of something good than it is something evil in and of itself. Then there’s loyalty. While... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding