Psychological Needs - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

did you draw on your background in psychoanalysis to approach contemporary characters and issues in leadership? Abraham Zaleznik: When I wrote my first book on the job of the foreman (1950), an observation and an idea took hold: Leaders have to achieve View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

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 SAFETY? In her book The... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2018
News

Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

keep getting great things done? Organize Tomorrow Today proposes simple new habits to adopt. For example, writing down our top priorities helps us to focus—but doing it the day before triggers a powerful psychological phenomenon that... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

to rate each item on a 7-point scale ranging from practical (1) to pleasurable (7). Keinan also asked the shoppers to circle one of two answers for each item: "Because I need it" or "Because I want to have it (although I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

In recent years, I have been inside nearly two dozen turnaround situations, in various stages of progress, in which new leaders were bringing distressed organizations back from the brink of failure and setting them on a healthier course. In every case, I saw—and agreed... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

significant impact on the company’s bottom line, is psychological safety. WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY? In her book The Fearless Organization , Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson describes View Details

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

conducted a series of experiments in cooperation with her PhD advisor at Dartmouth College, psychology professor Thalia Wheatley. (They detail their findings in The Tipping Point of Animacy: How, When, and Where We Perceive Life in a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

“setting the stage,” or identifying what's at stake, why it matters, and for whom. The pages that follow the table offer scenario-based examples, explore the reframing of failure, emphasize the need for voice, and outline other essential... View Details

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

that leaders matter. Certainly, many leaders (especially the successful ones) make this claim—just have a look at the business section of your local bookstore. But social scientists who systematically study leadership generally agree with Marx. From View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie

psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argue that too many government decisions and initiatives are shaped by psychological biases and unproductive thinking habits. The result, they say, is... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Dynamic Teaming ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! New Dynamic Teaming $1,850 Next 4-week session starts... View Details

2019
Working Paper

Status Pivoting: Coping with Status Threats through Motivated Trade-off Beliefs and Consumption across Domains

By: Dafna Goor, Anat Keinan and Nailya Ordabayeva

Prior research established that status threat leads consumers to display status-related products such as luxury brands. While compensatory consumption in the domain of the status threat (e.g., products associated with financial and professional success) is the most... View Details

Keywords: Status and Position; Luxury; Consumer Behavior

Citation

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

economic construct; it’s a psychological construct—the happiness one gets by being close to family and friends—and it needs to be taken into account.” By giving workers the flexibility to take vacation time... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

July 2010
Teaching Note

Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang (TN)

By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Lisa Kwan

Teaching Note for 410018. View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Brands and Branding; Financial Crisis; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Luxury; Arts; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry

Citation

Purchase

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

may be able to show employees the ways in which they are trying to sustain the values, while also managing business realities. (iv) Create a sense of psychological safety. Employees need to feel that it is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2010
Chapter

Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond 'Basic Needs'

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries... View Details

Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Human Needs; Income; Adaptation; Economic Growth

Citation

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

that make the workplace feel ”just a tiny bit more psychologically safe: I don’t know. I need help. I made a mistake. I’m sorry.” How often have you heard your boss utter those words in the recent past? If... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

corporations and Wall Street as part of the cause of social injustice. But I also understood that they would need to be a big part of the solution, as indeed they have been.” America, who teaches courses on investing in Africa and on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

wildly inaccurate, the psychology of perception systematically leads negotiators to major errors. Self-Serving Role Bias. People tend unconsciously to interpret information pertaining to their own side in a strongly self-serving way. The... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

August 2023
Technical Note

Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman

Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus. View Details