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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers. Michael L. Tushman : The Academy of Management Annals (AMA) recognizes particularly impactful papers with the "Decade Award' which is an award for the paper with... View Details

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

beyond the ivory tower.” The priority paradox So why aren’t more scholars at business schools striving to make their work practically relevant? One reason is that for many, working on relevant problems has little impact on faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top business schools.What they have... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

the behavior of political leaders, the impact of the 9/11 attacks, and scientists’ statements about global warming and gasoline prices. Also included are studies of attitude strength that compare the causes and consequences of various... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

charity. [related readings] “It’s a way to clearly communicate that ‘We are unique in the space,’” Choi says. “Here’s what we are and here’s what we aren’t.” More traditional organizations have also been opening up. The US Department of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

November 2021
Article

Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products

By: Itay P. Fainmesser, Dominique Olié Lauga and Elie Ofek

We study how user-generated content (UGC) about new products impacts a firm's advertising and pricing decisions and the effect on profits and market dynamics. We construct a two-period model where consumers value quality and are heterogeneous in their taste for the new... View Details

Keywords: Online Reviews; Product Ratings; Social Networks; Word Of Mouth; Pricing; User-generated Content; Advertising; Product Marketing; Price; Consumer Behavior; Product Positioning; Social Media

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22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

create even within a very traditional, industrial business. We think the basic design of Predix was heading in the right direction, but the challenges in execution have been severe. Lagace: A central concern of The Business of Platforms is the double-edged sword nature... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

creative or integrative thinking, or experiential learning and project work. A few schools were cutting-edge in one or more of these areas. Other schools felt that the business school community as a whole had a long way to go. So while... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

January 2016
Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details

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15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

experiences with systemic racism. In late June, the NCF plans to announce its second round of grants, totaling $2 million, to community groups across the Commonwealth. See more from the online-only June Alumni Bulletin View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

because they aren’t interested. “It’s simply that it was too costly for them to do so,” says Pons. Lowering the barriers even slightly had a dramatic impact on voter turnout and engagement. What’s more, a post-election survey administered... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Communications

01 Dec 2015
News

Giving Advice

(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a number of new options, including... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

During COVID-19 and Beyond. Closures of schools and other learning spaces have had an impact on 94 percent of the world’s student population; for low and lower-middle income countries, the impact has been up... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

08 Mar 2018
News

How HBS Gives Back

the greater good. The piece details several initiatives, from Senior Lecturer Kevin Mohan’s position as chair of Boys Town to the students who work as mentors at the Gardner Pilot Academy through the Volunteer Corps to the Knowledge and Library Services staff’s work... View Details

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

failure in the startup and tech ecosystems. I think the HBS community is particularly well-suited to be a problem-solver here. We have so many leaders in VC, startups, and entrepreneurship. Our alumni network literally runs the largest... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Mar 2018
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

organization shares with other cities the three-pronged, neighborhood-based development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and effective community wellness programs that helped to revitalize... View Details

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Steven Rogers Courtesy Steven Rogers On May 31st, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, Steven Roger's daughter Ariel sent him a text. In it, she told her dad that the Black View Details

10 Oct 2018
News

Building Paths to Success

team with 100 people, SVA partnered last year with 17 nonprofits focused on reducing economic and educational disadvantage among Australia’s neediest populations. Traill, who details his personal transformation and SVA’s rise in his new book, Jumping Ship, was able to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

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