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24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

inflexible or unpredictable work schedules, and employers’ failure to grasp how employees are struggling and to provide them with support, according to a new Harvard Business School report. That disregard harms both workers and companies.... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

November 2007
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Differences at Work: Jenny (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon

Differences at Work: Jenny (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-017 is set in Amsterdam. Accompanied by her boss, Jenny is pitching a marketing engagement, but the prospective client keeps making comments about how attractive he finds her. View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Employees; Diversity; Netherlands

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06 Jan 2021
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Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

reality is that some days you need to drive your kid to school.” So, what’s the alternative? Beshears teamed with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University in 2015 to test different ways to help 2,508 Google View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Mar 2014
News

Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

company, turning it into an industry leader. His insights on how he empowered his employees were really unique, and I heard many CEOs in the audience say that they wanted to start implementing some of his methods. Scott Huennekens (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth

fellowships. On the operating expense side, employee compensation represented more than half of all expenditures, increasing 10 percent to $153 million. This growth reflected a 29.5 percent University-wide increase in View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
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Breaking Free from Fear of Change

line. This research is aimed at helping individuals and organizations become more successful by changing those behaviors. Can you give some examples of dysfunctional behaviors? Some typical behavioral traps include busyness, which we’ve... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

05 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

critical action phase. We draw on the research on behavioral forecasting, ethical fading, and cognitive distortions to gain insight into the forces driving these faulty perceptions and, noting how these misperceptions can lead to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

Why Does the Leadership Industry Continue to Thrive? The unstated assumption underlying most of responses to this month’s column is that the leadership industry has done little or nothing to improve leadership behaviors or to deter... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

adapt to the behavioral biases of employees to "sort in" ("sort away") attractive (unattractive) employees; such schemes may also reduce a firm's wage bill. Consequence-Cause Matching:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2018
News

Case Study: A Good Fit

gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

produced one of the most exciting papers that I have worked on." The idea for the paper grew from a conundrum that Bohnet faced when she became faculty director of the Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP). Although she'd built a career on using... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity

expression, as well as factors that impede authenticity in every day work interactions. Her research has centered on employee silence, and the degree to which members suppress personal values and pretend to embrace those of the... View Details

November 2023
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Brokerage House Initial Public Offerings and Analyst Forecast Quality

By: Mark Bradshaw, Michael Drake, Joseph Pacelli and Brady Twedt

We examine how brokerage firm initial public offerings (IPOs) influence the research quality of sell-side analysts employed by the brokerage. Our main results focus on earnings forecast bias and absolute forecast errors as proxies for research quality. Using a... View Details

Keywords: IPOs; Research Analysts; ＂Brokerage Industry; Initial Public Offering; Employees; Behavior; Outcome or Result

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20 Jul 2016
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Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

football stadium, a cruise ship—where people are segmented by rank of some sort. Norton co-authored the study, Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage, with Katherine A. DeCelles, an associate professor of organizational View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter, managers and employees alike seem to find common themes emerging when they begin thinking... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

#MeToo about power dynamics and changing norms of behavior apply across society,” she says. “At a small company, you might not have the same tools to address harassment, and your options might feel more limited, but companies need to... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

01 Apr 2002
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Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club

large part to its founder's emphasis on customer relations over shareholder value. Today, Siebel has over eight thousand employees in more than 34 countries. Fortune magazine ranked the company second in its 2001 listing of the "100... View Details