Employee Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is the faculty chair of the Leading Professional Services Executive Program at HBS. Previously, he was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company for more than 34 years. You... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

Seemingly Irrelevant Factors Influence Judgment of (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, Max H. Bazerman Abstract People often make judgments about the ethicality of others' behaviors and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

invoicing of other services. Mallory says the kids would shop at each other’s companies, but only “after the company was operating and employees were paid.” In the weeks prior to JA BizTown, students get instructions on how to start and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

June 2011
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Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work

By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson

This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details

Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior

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01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike

costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were... View Details

Keywords: David Lax and Professor James K. Sebenius

01 Jun 2005
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Stephen Fuller Remembered

Executive Education courses ranging from organizational behavior and collective bargaining, to corporate responsibility and business policy. An associate dean from 1963 to 1969, he helped strengthen the School’s financial resources,... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Race Hire? The Effects of Competency Microaggressions on Workplace Behaviors and Emotion " Rachel Arnett presents "Navigating the Spotlight: Hidden Challenges of Minority Racial-Identity Management" Daphne Baldassari presents "Oscar... View Details

November 2007 (Revised October 2008)
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Differences at Work: Will (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon

A colleague makes a stereotypical remark about gays that Will, an out gay man, knows to be wrong. He struggles with how to correct the senior colleague. View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Ethics; Employees; Gender; Diversity; Power and Influence

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01 Mar 2004
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Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students

amounted to kickbacks. A suspicious state employee eventually alerted authorities. Kuhse explained that an approach from a friend or respected colleague often is the entrée to a slippery slope. It begins with an apparently insignificant... View Details

Keywords: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

24 Jul 2018
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How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft

At an executive retreat in 2015, Hood lectured senior leaders on the need for more internal and external metrics to keep employees on a measurable path and communicate better to investors. Nadella and Hood hatched a plan to refocus... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Noted & Quoted

feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and challenge of the work itself and not by external pressures.” — Professor Teresa Amabile, cited in an article noting that her research shows carrots and sticks don’t motivate View Details

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

Leslie K. John is keenly aware of the pressure researchers feel to get results. When her graduate studies in behavioral decision research didn't produce significant findings that led to publication in a prestigious journal, John felt... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

01 Nov 1999
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Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

The influence of a nation's history, infrastructure, and culture permeates all aspects of life within the country, including the norms, values, and behaviors of managers in its national companies. Nationally influenced View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

31 Jan 2011
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Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2014
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All For One

created an environment in which employees were inspired to express their own ideas—even the half-baked ones. Sitting in her office on the third floor of Morgan Hall on a sunny summer day, Hill is a flurry of creative energy herself. Just... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

13 Nov 2000
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Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

create organizations that keep learning. Firms that come up short in this regard, Garvin asserts, may be condemned to repeat mistakes endlessly, fail to adapt to changing conditions, lose employees who are repositories of important... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

13 Dec 2004
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How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Overview Confidence in an organization is more than just a spirit of "We can do it." It is the foundation, systems, and culture involving positive behaviors such as open communication, self-scrutiny, respect, teamwork,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

Lasting Negative Impressions.” To learn more, read Rachel Layne’s story Beware the Lasting Impression of a ‘Temporary’ Selfie. 4. Resolution: Ace that job interview at your dream company. Tip: Ask a lot of questions, especially follow-up questions. View Details