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- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
proud and... happiness. This was really confirmed by how the family Perzyk collaborated to all this event. Perzyk: It taught me that people are fundamentally kind, and that's something that bears repetition. Not just for this moment in time but, just because it speaks... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
beginning a distinguished two-decade academic career that culminated in his appointment, beginning July 1, as the School’s tenth Dean at age 48. A specialist in organizational behavior and leadership, Nohria has coauthored or coedited... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- June 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Compensation and Performance Evaluation at Arrow Electronics
By: Brian J. Hall and Carleen Madigan
Describes a company's struggles in implementing a subjective performance rating system for its employees. In particular, it describes the difficulties faced by the CEO in getting managers to combat "ratings inflation"--that is, to produce numerical ratings that are... View Details
Hall, Brian J., and Carleen Madigan. "Compensation and Performance Evaluation at Arrow Electronics." Harvard Business School Case 800-290, June 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
"Crown Act II" & "How to Win the Culture War" Panel: Humanizing Institutions Rosabeth Moss Kanter presents "Toward Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Leading High-Impact Change" Caroline Shenaz Hossein presents "Radical love in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
practices that will allow people to flourish - the key to organizational success. Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Howard H. Stevenson (Harvard Business School Press) According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, most of human history and much of... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
what employees can do to resist them. As she states in a recent column in Harvard Business Review, "The best cure for horrible bosses is wonderful colleagues." Bad boss behavior #1: failure to communicate. At any level of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
the first step toward breaking that code. In 2017, the team conducted a field study in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, which announced a call for research proposals for solutions to human health problems. The researchers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
development. Tacit dimensions of human behavior can also point to new directions in product creation, say Leonard and Sensiper. In designing an automobile navigation system, for example, researchers at the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
Behavioral ecologist Toni Rapone knows that natural selection is the law of the planet. But for the vibrant and down-to-earth MBA-cum-scientist, that knowledge comes from more than textbooks. Rapone, whose given name, Antoinette, honors... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Jenny (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
Differences at Work: Jenny (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-017 is set in Amsterdam. Accompanied by her boss, Jenny is pitching a marketing engagement, but the prospective client keeps making comments about how attractive he finds her. View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Jenny (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-017, November 2007.
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- July – August 2008
- Article
Help Employees Give Away Some of That Bonus
By: Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
Employees who spend some or all of their bonuses on others-thereby creating what the authors call a "prosocial" workplace-are happier as a result. Managers can enhance that effect by providing opportunities to share the wealth. View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Behavior; Happiness
Norton, Michael I., and Elizabeth W. Dunn. "Help Employees Give Away Some of That Bonus." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 27.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
experience where there are rules on who should talk to whom and how. “Through discussion, students discover that there is no such thing as one best way to structure human relationships,” he continues. “It really depends on the context.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Dec 2021
- News
Gaslighting at Work—and What to Do About It
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
does a good job of always reflecting the natural parts of human behavior in being an online community? Not ever creating interactions that are unnatural, which I do think that there are platforms that have... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
moving along, getting ‘back to normal,’” says Pasricha. “That approach sweeps most deeper human emotions under the rug. Loneliness, anxiety, and mental health challenges are spiking. There is a lot of mourning and guilt, too. Survivor’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 31 May 2013
- News
Seeing the Light
is all about the light—I love Vermeer as the master of light. My work includes still-lifes, animal, and some human portrait work. I have sold 170 originals worldwide." Evans has also sold in excess of 1,000 limited-edition giclee prints.... View Details