Human Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Oct 2021
News

Women Do More to Fight Burnout — and It’s Burning Them Out

10 Apr 2020
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How to Be an Inclusive Leader Through a Crisis

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

It's a funny image that touches the underlying anxiety some firm leaders express about managing and maximizing human resources. When their people get on the elevator at night, there's no guarantee they'll be back the next day. More than... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

06 Dec 2018
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Cold Call Horror Stories

was calling on Anna behind you.” Al Hauf, class year is 1973. I think it was the first year—we had all those cases every night. And I’d figured out what I couldn’t do was do all of them every night. So I decided which ones I wouldn’t do. I think it was a View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Turning Point: Change, Stat

Omar Maniya (MBA 2016) Illustration by Gisela Goppel Omar Maniya (MBA 2016) Illustration by Gisela Goppel I was primed to become a doctor from an early age. Both of my parents are physicians who talked shop at the dinner table, so I grew up with an appreciation for the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare; medicine; innovation; interpersonal communication; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

Technology Group. A member of the HBS faculty since 1990, David A. Thomas teaches organizational behavior and human resource management. He is a noted authority on executive development, mentoring, and the... View Details

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

products to have adverse events reports. These data may inform proposals for review of high-risk devices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52136 in press Organizational Behavior and View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Hiring Process | Employment

be sure to keep track of not only the number but the actual job title so you may refer back to this position. Resume Review The Human Resources department receives and reviews every resume that is submitted for each job. At times there... View Details

06 Nov 2000
What Do You Think?

Succession at GE: What’s Next?

has instilled in GE's management—speed, simplicity, self-confidence, and boundarylessness—are uniquely suited to the preparation of a successor who can take GE in new directions under the umbrella of the same set of values and the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library

for the program was to provide women with a background in the "understanding and treatment of human problems in any employment situation" that would enable them to enter positions in human resources... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

and 1927. “Donham’s innovations became anchor points for subsequent campus development,” says Executive Dean for Administration Angela Crispi (MBA 1990). “Our unique status as a residential business school has guided decisions about the function and View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

as consumers and employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices that we make more broadly as human beings (who we date, how we deal with friendships). From my research, we see when a mismatch is most likely to occur between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

a quiet smile from my father, I suspect. More recently I’ve written 2 books, 10 peer-reviewed articles for scholarly journals, and more than 30 opinion pieces and essays in the fields of education and human development. Recently, I helped... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

We all know the moral of Aesop's fable about the industrious ant and the fun-loving grasshopper: Work now and save for the future, or else regret the consequences. And who hasn't been confronted with a similar dilemma? You know you should work late to finish that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Apr 2025
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The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details