organizational behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

15 Nov 2016
News

Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

opportunities in relation to other countries. She also notes that Leadership and Organizational Behavior “opened my eyes to my own internal leadership strengths and weaknesses.” “I want to build a healthy... View Details

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Advertising Authors Pavel Kireyev, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta find that popular Web metrics do not adequately capture consumer behavior online and lead marketers to create less effective marketing budgets. View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Sep 2021
News

Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

professor in Executive Education at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. “The OPN is a way to provide support to Black-owned businesses that are ready for growth but lack a few tools,” she says. “Our function is to help with operations, and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems. Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Student-Profile

Anil Doshi

there is a particular emphasis on academic and industry application. My Research Interests I study how information disclosure and information goods affect individual behavior and firm strategy. Currently, I am investigating how dynamics... View Details

04 Jan 2016
News

Taking Time Out for a Challenge

master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School in 2005. At HBS, she is pursuing a PhD in organizational behavior and sociology. Manning decided to take a leave from her PhD path and step in as... View Details

Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social media platforms, which may have coded rules that alter which faces are seen by users. A. Chyei Vinluan, Postdoctoral Fellow of Business Administration in both the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

she earned a double major in Psychology and Economics and served as a two-time co-captain of the Varsity Tennis Team (1990); an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (1994); and a Ph.D. in Organizational View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

some possible solutions—at the Faculty Research Symposium held at HBS on May 20. Whether a particular nonprofit organizational structure favors central or local control, inevitable tensions develop between national headquarters and local... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Profile

Olivia Melendez

organizational behavior would really enhance my ability to lead. I was also ready for a personal change. As much as I loved my West Coast life (especially weekends in Tahoe), I have to admit that I missed... View Details

23 Aug 2011
News

New Kid in School

Perold, and Peter Tufano — which he said had a lot to do with his initial career decision to go to Wall Street. “Also, in my first year,” he says, “I was fortunate to have Nitin Nohria as my Organizational View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

meaninglessness, uncertainty, and boredom. These negative psychological states increase nostalgia because nostalgia is restorative. After conducting dozens of studies using diverse methods ranging from qualitative text analysis, self-report surveys, and View Details

Keywords: All Industries

November 2008 (Revised December 2008)
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Differences at Work: Sameer (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon

Sameer, an Indian Muslim, is a summer intern in a small firm. Prompted by a conflict in the Middle East, members of the organization make a number of anti-Muslim jokes. Sameer wonders whether he should surface discomfort; he otherwise enjoys the firm, and is hoping to... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Ethnicity; Behavior; Religion; Organizational Culture; Middle East; India

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01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

have reinforced strong Japanese cultural norms that emphasized group behavior and valued interpersonal harmony. Such values carried over into the country's commercial organizations and helped shape distinctive management styles and View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

identification. Download the paper: http://www.imanet.org/pdf/11_09_epstein.pdf Nameless + Harmless = Blameless: When Seemingly Irrelevant Factors Influence Judgment of (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino, Lisa Lixin Shu, and Max... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

are a part and by individual differences such as race and gender. Dr. Porter holds five college degrees: a PhD in organizational behavior and a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Harvard; as well as a... View Details

24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the... View Details