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- 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
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
wide array of issues, including revising business plans, scaling operations, marketing, finance, human resources, and more. “For HBS alumni, this is an opportunity to give back to the community by volunteering their time and expertise to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
strategies. "Few Asian countries have done this," Porter commented, citing chronic problems such as inadequate infrastructure, skilled human resource shortages, deficiencies in science and technology, and lingering monopolies that have... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
which depends on the merging of breakthrough scientific ideas and great business leadership," said Dean Nitin Nohria. By focusing on technologies that have great potential to impact human lives and by enabling business leaders to take... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
As a student in Professor Nitin Nohria’s LEAD class, in the spring of 2001, Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) was particularly captivated by the idea of reflective leadership. “We talked a lot about the human aspects of business, and I was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Portrait Project
Polina Yampolska
Ten years ago, sitting in a cramped, unheated kitchen in my family's apartment on the outskirts of Kiev, I wrote the closing paragraph of my college application essay: "I like to be a small part in a huge machine that is called human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Curb Your Overconfidence
an article appearing in the January issue of Negotiation, an HBS Publishing newsletter. While overconfidence is a fundamental human bias, in the workplace it can lead to adverse consequences, says Bazerman. He poses this real-world... View Details
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
Leadership and Organizational Behavior. The key developments include the original teaching of scientific management by Frederick W. Taylor; the change in perspective from Taylorism to the Human Relations approach, which resulted from the... View Details
- August 2013
- Article
The Timing of Pay
By: Christopher Parsons and E. Van Wesep
There exists large and persistent variation in not only how, but when employees are paid, a fact unexplained by existing theory. This paper develops a simple model of optimal pay timing for firms. When workers have self-control problems, they under-save... View Details
Keywords: Payday Lending; Hyperbolic Discounting; Self-control Problems; Pay Frequency; Payday Loan Legislation; Paycheck Frequency; Time Inconsistency; Wages; Behavior; Employee Relationship Management
Parsons, Christopher, and E. Van Wesep. "The Timing of Pay." Journal of Financial Economics 109, no. 2 (August 2013): 373–397.
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
The Labor-Savvy Leader
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
have to compete at a global level and maintain a world-class standard of quality. What's the biggest shortcoming of American business? Its low-trust culture, characterized by defensive and protective communication, hidden agendas, internal politics, and underutilized... View Details
- 22 Jul 2016
- News
Let’s Talk Dating
other cities. “I’m not saying that there is nobody who has ever hooked up on Tinder,” she said. “But there are a lot more human connections. People have dated, gotten married, formed a music band, moved to new cities and found friends... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
for which we don’t have reliable numbers. You say that this market is driven by such deep-seated human feelings that banning it outright would be futile. Yet obviously some rules are needed. We need to look at this area as objectively as... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
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
- 23 Jul 2020
- News
How to Create a Workplace that Actually Inspires Passion
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published in Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- News
“You Could Be Dead Any Second”
to exchange the Westerners for prisoners, Quin and the others were used as a human wall while their captors exchanged fire with the Yemeni army. “It seemed impossible that we could survive,” Quin told the Bulletin in 2002. But the moment... View Details