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- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
the required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (commonly known as LEAD), which focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of the enterprise. The Elements Of The... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
diversity and inclusion is what one might expect from a consultancy. The organization offers strategies, advises on diversity initiatives, and helps find and retain talent to fill the top seats. Yet experience shows that that isn’t always enough: strategy has to be... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and correction of such errors, Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson studied eight teams of caregivers from two different teaching hospitals to explore how group and organizational behaviors affect error rates in administering drugs to... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
"improbable" emergence and expansion of that business to investigate the challenges and opportunities faced by an individual who seeks to build an enterprise around his own human capital. It includes background information on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November 2007 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Differences at Work: Will (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
A colleague makes a stereotypical remark about gays that Will, an out gay man, knows to be wrong. He struggles with how to correct the senior colleague. View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Will (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-013, November 2007. (Revised October 2008.)
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
field. If you try to make more out of it than something very human and informal, you'll get all caught up in your tail. "The job of any leader is to build self-confidence in the people around him," Welch continued. "Make those people feel... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
since launching in 2004 as a spin-off from the HBS Club of New York’s program. In 2017, 53 alumni volunteers provided consulting services to seven clients to increase their effectiveness on issues such as human trafficking, environmental... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
a strange human tendency to value effort independent of outcome," says Norton. "If you appear to be working hard and sweating, people will assume you are doing a good job." There's an app for that Buell and Norton put that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Courses by Title - Course Catalog
Heese Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 The Arts of Communication General Management Candace Bertotti Spring 2026 Q3Q4 1.5 Authentic Leader Development Organizational Behavior Robin Ely , Monique Burns Thompson Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
What inspired you to pursue a career in medicine and how does your HBS MBA fit into this career path? “I was drawn to medicine because I loved the idea that knowledge and skill could directly translate into improving the lives of others. I also loved the View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
says. "People adapt to almost anything, and adaptation is a constant in human nature, even when it comes to something good. So you want to alternate [the emotion] to really get them hooked." Next Steps Of course, capturing attention is... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Publications May-June 2015 Human Resource Management Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multi-stakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago By: Beer, Michael, Paul Boselie, and Chris Brewster Abstract—Thirty... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
be surprised to see it on the negative side, too, clinging to an identity even if will be costly. It’s fascinating that emotions, which used to be called “irrational,” are so important as drivers of human View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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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
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Barron, Stephen George Leider, and Jennifer N. Stack Periodical:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In many contexts we are warned against engaging in risky View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
and racial justice in Brooklyn. She is a founding partner of the REFORM Alliance, which seeks to reform the criminal justice system. The Foundation also supports the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University and the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
hassle out of moving and furnishing a new residence. The runner-up spot went to Tom DeBrooke (MBA 1972) and his company, Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc., which has developed a new system to extend the viability of human organs and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
businesses cannot by themselves set the rules of the game. They face short-term economic pressures just like households, and their ability unilaterally to change their behavior is limited by dysfunctional governmental structures, and by... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Chairman & CEO, GE Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1978 B.A., Applied Mathematics LESSONS FROM HBS “Understanding the difference between knowledge and intelligence.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Don’t forget the importance of... View Details