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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

The Case Centre Classic Case Collection in 2021. Anthony Mayo : Received the 2021 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. Tsedal Neeley : Selected by Business Insider as one of the 100 people transforming business... View Details
  • March 2011 (Revised February 2012)
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Innovation and Growth at Actelion Ltd.

By: Gary P. Pisano, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Ruth Dittrich
In late 2010, Jean-Paul Clozel, CEO of the Swiss biotech pharmaceuticals firm Actelion, looks back on a successful decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Innovation and Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)

By: Ruth Wageman and Teresa M. Amabile
When J. Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team effectiveness. In both... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Cambridge
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  • 11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Ruth Goodwin-Groen (MBA 2001) has a lot of work to do. “Our job will not be done until all people—old or young, rich or poor, male or female—are able to make and receive payments... View Details
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

  PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2014
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J. Richard Hackman (1940–2013)

By: Ruth Wageman and Teresa M. Amabile
When J. Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: work design and team effectiveness. In both... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Organizational Design; Groups and Teams; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Cambridge
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  • March 1997
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Incentives and Cooperation: The Joint Effects of Task and Reward Interdependence on Group Performance

By: George P. Baker and Ruth Wageman
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Cooperation; Groups and Teams; Performance
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  • August 2024
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Cristina Ventura: The Career of a Catalyst

By: Linda A. Hill, Allison J. Wigen and Ruth Page
This multimedia case follows the career of Chief Catalyst Officer for the Lane Crawford Joyce Group (LCJG), Cristina Ventura. After beginning her career in luxury in Europe and Asia, Ventura was recruited in 2011 to open Apple’s flagship stores in Hong Kong and South... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Entrepreneurship; Luxury; Family Business; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; Asia; China; Hong Kong
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  • June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
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Cementos Argos in the U.S.: Go Big or Go Home?

By: Jorge Tamayo, Ruth Costas, Pedro Levindo and Karina Souza
In April 2011, Colombian group Cementos Argos had to decide on whether to double down its business in the U.S., amidst the U.S. cement industry’s lowest performance in 30 years. Argos— Colombia’s leading cement producer and one of the “jewels” of Grupo GEA, the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Business Subsidiaries; Talent and Talent Management; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Strategy; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Latin America; South America; North and Central America; United States; Colombia
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  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

limitations and constraints others have accepted, and set out to create new realities. This book is motivated by a simple observation: Leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, problem solving, business growth-and even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2016
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Community Building

The Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center opened this month, providing a vibrant hub of activity for the more than 10,000 senior executives who attend the School’s Executive Education programs each year. Located at the eastern terminus of Harvard... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
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Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS

A MEMORABLE DAY: Dr. Chao and his daughters, flanked by Dean Nohria and Harvard President Drew Faust. HBS and Harvard University have received a $40 million gift from a foundation of Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family, in tribute to the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
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Hollywood Story

Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • Forthcoming
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Challenges and Facilitators in Implementing Remote Patient Monitoring Programs in Primary Care

By: Ruth Hailu, Jessica Sousa, Mitchell Tang, Ateev Mehrotra and Lori Uscher-Pines
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in greater use of remote patient monitoring (RPM). However, the use of RPM has been modest compared to other forms of telehealth.
Objective: To identify and describe barriers to the implementation of RPM among primary... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Health Industry
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  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

and benefits and that bundled legislation is valued more than the sum of its parts. Study 2 shows this finding stems from a diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains. Study 3 extends our findings to policies involving costs and benefits of the same type... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Featured Cases | Information Technology

Featured Cases Multimedia case studies extend learning beyond the classroom and enhance the case study methodology by deepening contextual understanding. Students are able to experience the immediacy and impact of real-time decisions and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
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Executive Action

A rendering of the new Chao Center (Illustration by Goody Clancy) Harvard Business School broke ground for the construction of a new Executive Education facility—the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center—on April 24.... View Details
Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

  PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology

Featured Case The Reinvention of Kodak The Kodak multimedia case highlights the company's reinvention efforts by its leadership to navigate near bankruptcy and industry disruption from new technology. It explores the resurgence of older... View Details
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Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership | Information Technology

Featured Case Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership On November 26, 2008, heavily armed terrorists launched a series of attacks throughout the city of Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay). One of the locations attacked was the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower,... View Details