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  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

of the Organizational Behavior unit also sees an aware, open, and inquiring senior team as critical to sound decision-making. "The key is for senior teams to be able to hold paradoxical ideas, or to... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous strides in predicting financial market crashes, panics, and crises. Participants left this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

Summing Up Do Managers Take Trust for Granted? Trust is a big issue these days judging from the volume of responses to this month's column. Its importance in management is agreed on. There is a long list of behaviors that can damage it.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of funding that alleviates financing constraints, its core effect on the firm's innovative behavior is in fostering collaborations and... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Policy; Health; Human Resources; Africa; India; United States
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

simplistic assumptions about business behavior also enabled business history to be highly creative and, at times, to exercise a huge impact on management studies more generally, especially strategy and the study of entrepreneurship.... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

business school to potentially save lives. The role requires an understanding of behavioral economics, strategy, organizational behavior, and operations. Thus far in my career, my experiences have primarily... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

returns to labor, and relationships with customers (producing loyalty and customer "ownership") as well as innovation and financial performance. If the organization doesn't measure up on these dimensions over some extended period, it may be necessary to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

Along with identifying a primary customer, you must also define your core values in a way that ranks the priority of shareholders, employees, and customers. Value statements that are lists of aspirational behaviors aren't good enough.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • November 2014
  • Article

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

By: William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln and Prachi Mishra
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998–2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly... View Details
Keywords: Lobbying; Political Economy; H-1B; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Policy; Immigration
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Faculty & Research - Business History

Jeremy S. Friedman Business, Government and the International Economy 10 results Tarun Khanna Strategy 4 results Rakesh Khurana Organizational Behavior William C. Kirby General Management 3 results Nancy F.... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

frustration or sadness. Wolf differentiates those expressions from anger directed at others. In the paper Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion, published in the November 2016 issue of Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The Organizational Behavior Teaching Society Dedicated to innovative teaching and learning in the organizational and... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

large crowds. Have the changes in the underlying behaviors affecting many industries become so ingrained in employees, consumers, and everyday life that they will not revert to what they were before? The evidence is mixed. One can argue... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

By: Kristina S. McElheran
This paper explores the relationship between market position and business process innovation. Prior research has focused on the alignment between new technologies and the internal capabilities of firms to pursue them. I extend the investigation to include external... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • September–October 2015
  • Article

Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

By: Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein and David Lazer
Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the structure of 16-person networks, we investigate how an organization's network structure shapes performance of problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Experiments; Clustering; Problem Solving; Exploration And Exploitation; Knowledge; Search; Collaboration; Collaboration Structures; Transparency; Communication; Communication Technology; Information; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry
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  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/gfkmir.2014.6.issue-2/gfkmir-2014-0095/gfkmir-2014-0095.xml February 2015 Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Interdisciplinary Directions Diversity in Groups By: Fernandes, Catarina, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

case?In Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) during my Required Curriculum (RC) year with Assistant Professor Ting Zhang. How do you see yourself applying the lessons from this case in your future... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson