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- 01 Sep 1978
- Conference Presentation
Powerlessness Corrupts: Structural Influences on Organizational Behavior
By: R. M. Kanter
- Article
Exploration and Exploitation within and across Organizations
By: Dovev Lavie, Uriel Stettner and Michael Tushman
Jim March's framework of exploration and exploitation has drawn substantial interest from scholars studying phenomena such as organizational learning, knowledge management, innovation, organizational design, and strategic alliances. This framework has become an... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Framework; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Management; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Alliances; Behavior
Lavie, Dovev, Uriel Stettner, and Michael Tushman. "Exploration and Exploitation within and across Organizations." Academy of Management Annals 4 (2010): 109–155.
- Teaching Interest
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)
Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
- December 2014
- Supplement
Interview with Anders Byriel and Mads Nygård: Kvadrat
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Anders Byriel, CEO of the family-owned Danish textiles company, Kvadrat, and Mads Nygård, SVP of Strategy & Organization at Kvadrat, discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by the company. They elaborate on areas covered in the case including: 1.) Asia; 2.) Soft... View Details
Keywords: General Management; Organization Behavior; Strategy; Performance Management; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Denmark
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Interview with Anders Byriel and Mads Nygård: Kvadrat." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 415-704, December 2014.
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
authors of papers published in ASQ that have made exceptional contributions to the field of organization studies and is given annually for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier. Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2007... View Details
- July–August 2014
- Article
Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your Organization
By: Max Bazerman
We'd like to think that no smart, upstanding manager would ever overlook or turn a blind eye to threats or wrongdoing that ultimately imperil his or her business. Yet it happens all the time. We fall prey to obstacles that obscure or drown out important signals that... View Details
Keywords: Accountability; Business Ethics; Cognitive Psychology; Human Behavior; Personal Ethics In Business; Business or Company Management; Ethics
Bazerman, Max. "Becoming a First-Class Noticer: How to Spot and Prevent Ethical Failures in Your Organization." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2014): 116–119.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior
By: Francesca Gino and Sreedhari D. Desai
Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Welfare
Gino, Francesca, and Sreedhari D. Desai. "Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-079, February 2011.
- October 2014
- Supplement
Atlantis Paradise Island Resort and Casino (B): Improving Performance with New Core Values
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Chekitan S. Dev and Gabriele Piccoli
The leadership team of Atlantis Paradise Island, under new ownership, decided that better alignment of the core values with the vision and mission statement would create a more compelling and consistent organizational narrative that would redouble employee commitment... View Details
Keywords: Organization Behavior; Service Management; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Chekitan S. Dev, and Gabriele Piccoli. "Atlantis Paradise Island Resort and Casino (B): Improving Performance with New Core Values." Harvard Business School Supplement 815-073, October 2014.
- Web
Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
organization and how you have created solutions to such problems. 2014 Article Time, Money, and Morality By: F. Gino and C. Mogilner Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- News
Can Damon Silvers Save Organized Labor?
- 17 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach
Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler
- 11 Mar 2015
- News
How Self-Service Kiosks Are Changing Customer Behavior
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students October 18, 2024 Article Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes By: Jazz Croft, Acacia... View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
describes in a new working paper, The Better Is the Enemy of the Good. In fact, Exley argues that based on her research, people look for any excuse to avoid giving a donation and then rationalize their skinflint behavior to avoid feeling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- December 2002
- Article
Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study of Search Behavior and New Product Introduction
By: Riitta Katila and Gautam Ahuja
We examine how firms search, or solve problems, to create new products. According to organizational learning research, firms position themselves in a unidimensional search space that spans a spectrum from local to distant search. Our findings in the global robotics... View Details
Keywords: Problem Solving; New Products; Organizational Learning; Uncertainty; Organizational Research; Knowledge Management; Robotics; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Effectiveness; Innovation Adoption; Strategy; Product Design; Business Processes; Product Development
Katila, Riitta, and Gautam Ahuja. "Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study of Search Behavior and New Product Introduction." Academy of Management Journal 45, no. 6 (December 2002): 1183–1194.
- 13 Dec 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations
Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Julie Battilana
- October 2023
- Article
Speedy Activists: Firm Response Time to Sociopolitical Events Influences Consumer Behavior
By: Jimin Nam, Maya Balakrishnan, Julian De Freitas and Alison Wood Brooks
Organizations face growing pressure from their consumers and stakeholders to take public stances on sociopolitical issues. However, many are hesitant to do so lest they make missteps, promises they cannot keep, appear inauthentic, or alienate consumers, employees, or... View Details
Nam, Jimin, Maya Balakrishnan, Julian De Freitas, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Speedy Activists: Firm Response Time to Sociopolitical Events Influences Consumer Behavior." Special Issue on Consumer Insights from Text Analysis edited by Grant Packard, Sarah G. Moore, and Jonah Berger. Journal of Consumer Psychology 33, no. 4 (October 2023): 632–644.
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
Engaged workers are more productive. (iStock) iStock SUMMING UP: How Can We Prepare Leaders to Engage Their Associates? This month’s column elicited a number of reasons on why organizations around the world do such a poor job of engaging... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology
- January 12, 2023
- Article
Progressive Decentralization: A High-level Framework
By: Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers
We explain a high-level framework for designing for future decentralization up front, and offer some guidance about when and how to do so. The guidelines apply to both web3 projects and more traditional organizations. View Details
Keywords: Crypto Economy; Cryptocurrency; Decentralization; Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Management; Organization Behavior; Organization And Management Theory; Organization Form; Organizational Structure
Esber, Jad, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Progressive Decentralization: A High-level Framework." a16zcrypto.com (January 12, 2023).