Collective Identity - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

lines. By sharing insights and fostering connections, attendees left inspired and united in their shared commitment to transforming organizational practices and shaping a collective future for women’s leadership. Read more . Select... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

the notion that everyone has a slice of genius. The power of the dialectic of individual and collective identity resonated with Follett; consider her words: "We find the true man only through group... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Events - Business History

for teaching in different institutional contexts in Europe, India, Latin America, and the United States. Each session included time for discussion and debate, as the conference sought to lay the foundation for a community of scholars that can exchange ideas on the... View Details

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

to create social media, whose audiences voluntarily gave up their privacy. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Snapchat require you to sign in, making your identity known to the platform. Users’ interests can be inferred from the interests of their... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

17 Feb 2022
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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

free-for-alls in which anything goes in the name of “being yourself.” Rather, they clear space for individuality alongside conformity. They even adopt a somewhat paradoxical stance, seeking to generate collective alignment and ensure a... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

success—strategies that could be applied in a variety of business departments. 1. Managers must assume a new professional identity. It’s crucial for managers to acknowledge they are shedding one professional identity to take on a new role... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

reach other actors in the political economy, including shoppers, businesspeople, financiers, and traders. Thus Liz Cohen, in her Consumer’s Republic, looks at the ways consumers helped construct a new kind of political economy—through both individual preferences and... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

significant appropriations (approximately $369 billion) and tax incentives. Researchers at the Just Solutions Collective break down the provisions of the IRA and identify about “$40 billion in direct benefits for communities with EJ... View Details

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How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

Republican—are 3.2 percent more likely to leave their companies when they are “politically misaligned” with their colleagues. Shareholders collectively lose $238 million, on average, after their departure is announced, the research shows.... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

center her, she says. Later on she made elaborate mix-tapes, borrowing tracks from her mother’s record collection (Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Hall & Oates, and Billie Holiday), grabbing new songs off the radio, and adding her own... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About

inspired by Indonesian design, mass-produced by the Dutch, and then sold to the colonies in West Africa. In the 1960s, the material became a symbol of African identity and independence. As Shonibare has stated, “Based on the history of... View Details

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

research and technological innovation, this approach is misguided and potentially risky. This article argues that researchers need to pay close attention to issues such as biases in data collection and spurious correlation. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring. 2021 Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021 Academy of Management Journal Impact Award for “The Power in Demography: Women's Social Constructions of Gender Identity at Work” (June 1995). Robin J. Ely :... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

identity would be discovered. The Gay Students Association (GSA) got me through. We were deeply underground because we had to be, but every month we had a party, often with dancing, and it was joyous. In the spring term of my first year,... View Details

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

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

differences in either the quality or the nature of the output. But when a benchmarker like Hackett extends this methodology to support services or shared service departments, it assumes (without explicitly stating) that such departments are all offering View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

and governance system? Performance and psychological alignment that works for a period of time—sometimes many years—can create rigidities that require challenges. In the book I discuss what leaders must do, be, and know to lead a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

1/26/24). The tax collected is passed on to the government of India through Harvard University. Is financial aid available? As of April 2024, HBS Online offers two forms of grants to prospective participants: an Income-based Grant and a... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

husband and I grow as a team when it comes to managing our household and our collective careers. Sally Sorte Year: Second Mom of: Olivia (2 years) Pre-HBS Industry: Teach for America, Google, founded a charter school, McKinsey Post-HBS... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

Linda Hill's book for the star performer-turned-new-manager, Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity appeared a decade ago to much acclaim. Much of the original book is still fresh today. But a new edition, Becoming a Manager: How... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

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