Employee Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2014
News

Screen Saver

chances. "Moviegoing is embedded in the American social fabric," he says during a conversation at AMC's Theatre Support Center (the company's corporate headquarters) in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. "We provide the opportunity to escape the daily routine.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

productively in the United States. A previous repatriation tax holiday in 2004 induced the return of more than $300 billion to this country, and commentators across the political spectrum, including Andy Stern, formerly of the Service View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

01 Dec 2020
News

Steady as She Goes

120,000 employees came to work concerned that best-available safety protocols would not be enough to protect them from a little-understood novel coronavirus. “But now it has evolved into a real moment of pride for us,” Weckert reflects.... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

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

01 Sep 2014
News

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

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

interests of shareholders alone or, those of all stakeholders, including employees and customers? Moris Simson (HBS ISMP 91) Mitel Corporation Those taking issue with these premises generally saw the company's leadership with the support... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Oct 2011
News

Tea’s Time

collection from destinations around the world. Catalonia was a recent focus; in the fall of 2011, look for “Modern Mexico,” with designs inspired by everything from marimba carvings to the artwork of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to coffee bags from Chiapas. Each of... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

problems we’re now facing, including unfunded pension obligations. It has done nothing to stop corporations from making promises to their employees and shareholders without the resources to back them up. Extensive reform is necessary. To... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make decisions under uncertainty... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

01 Feb 1999
News

New Releases

which looks at the roles of three management groups: worldwide business managers, country or regional managers, and worldwide functional managers. A second new chapter, "Managing the Transformation Process," outlines the structural and process changes and the View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities? Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding, and Toby Stuart Periodical:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the individual, contextual, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the financial crisis came as such a shock to so many people—and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

the social mission. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives,” says Julie Battilana, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. “The big question is, is it really... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

School, along with actions you can take now to make a lasting difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when in our conscious mind we would... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

evolution in the contract between employees and employers. The conversation also considered how the post-COVID workplace will be different, as technology and work modes continue to evolve. The next day, on October 21, HBS clubs around the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. “The dual-reporting system can... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

28 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

What Can We Expect in the Other War?

In light of the outset of the war on terrorism, how does this affect what has been called the war for talent? A book by the same name 1 has recently characterized this as an "endless journey" to address the enduring challenge to provide winning View Details