organizational behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1998
News

HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco

a panel of prominent African-American CEOs and executives. The conference included a session on navigating corporate environments, moderated by Associate Professor David A. Thomas, and a workshop led by Professor Linda A. Hill on techniques for building and utilizing... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Oct 1997
News

Short Takes

organizational pressures and relationships that may be affecting the individual's performance. Psychoanalytic theory focuses on the individual's anxiety, beliefs, and values, underscoring their enduring importance as determinants of a... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

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

01 Sep 2004
News

Corey, Lombard Remembered

42 years, passed away in May in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He was 84. In June, George F.F. Lombard (MBA ’35), who served HBS for 41 years as a professor of organizational behavior and senior associate dean,... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Stephen Fuller Remembered

Executive Education courses ranging from organizational behavior and collective bargaining, to corporate responsibility and business policy. An associate dean from 1963 to 1969, he helped strengthen the... View Details

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

which) the job makes the person (might be related) to the degree of alignment in values between the person and the organizational culture." Dinesh Kaushal suggested that "relative position also changes the way people... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

system of global management, to the extent it can still be called American, will look less like it used to and more like something "multinational." People are willing to adjust their behavior to facilitate teamwork, but they... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action

Organizational Behavior Unit, Assistant Professor Tsedal Neeley researches global collaboration with special emphasis on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup challenges of working across national... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2009
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Professor Barnes Remembered

Professor emeritus Louis (“By”) Barnes (MBA ’52, DBA ’58), an expert in organizational behavior and a pioneer in the teaching and study of family-owned business issues, died in August. He was 81. For more... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

associate professors, Kathleen L. Valley, Robert J. Robinson, and George Wu, add to the unit's research portfolio through their differing yet complementary backgrounds. Valley examines conflicts in the workplace through the lens of View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 May 2013
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Zameer Kassam, MBA 2007

“I found my passion at HBS. When Rob Kaplan challenged our Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to articulate our passion, I surprised myself by announcing, ‘I am passionate about jewelry.’ It was a... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 12 May 2016
Webinars: Career

Adding Resilience to Your Career Toolkit

How can we handle adversity in our lives, whether it is the day-to-day stressors we face or major turbulence that hits us periodically? According to Professor Joshua Margolis, it is possible to build resilience by taking charge of how one both thinks about and reacts... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

emotional reaction that leaves the conscious brain incapable of making a rational response. Understanding the irrationality of human behavior is essential for understanding how people relate - or do not relate - to each other, which is... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work By: Moore, C., and F. Gino Abstract—Many of the scandalous organizational practices that have come to light in the last decade-rigging LIBOR, misselling... View Details

14 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

Many companies have tried, with mixed success, to leverage this underused asset by centralizing knowledge management functions or by investing heavily in knowledge management technology. We suggest another approach, one that requires managers to change their View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger

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Harvard Business School

of strategic human resource management, David A. Thomas received his bachelor's from Yale University in administrative sciences and his master's degree in organizational psychology from Columbia University. He later earned a master's... View Details

2000
Chapter

Environmental Destruction: Individual, Organizational, and Institutional Explanations

By: M. H. Bazerman and A. J. Hoffman

Keywords: Situation or Environment; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between 06–07 APR 2017 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Blitz Discussions Of Margins and Modalities Rachel Arnett Rachel Arnett, Ph.D. candidate in Organizational... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

in Organizations, Simmons Graduate School of Management, in Boston. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she taught at Columbia University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Ely received her Ph.D. in Organizational View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Simmons Graduate School of Management, in Boston. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she taught at Columbia University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Ely received her Ph.D. in Organizational View Details

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