Organizational Buying Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

buying bioplastics, and more and more airlines are doing the same with Sustainable Aviation Fuel. New regulations and financial reporting rules are being drafted to force companies to disclose climate risks they face. The investment... View Details

Student-Profile

Ryann Noe

Economics looks at the architecture and mechanics of systems, and English provides the stories of the people who populate those systems. Similarly, my PhD program sits at the crossroads of management and sociology.” Ryann says that she was drawn to Harvard’s View Details

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

some Skittles. I want to engage our audience in the conversation a little bit now. We've got time for a few questions. Speaker 1: Great talk. Do you have any data to indicate that that brand storytelling actually converts into consumer View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

Student-Profile

Jaylon Sherrell

agency over the direction of my career,” she says, explaining her decision to return to academia. Jaylon attended The PhD Project’s annual conference in 2020, where she met others like her and learned more about what a doctorate in View Details

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

attention-begging designs give away its second disruptive innovation, which is to fully embrace its NA-ness, according to Annie Wilson (PhDBA 2020). A behavioral scientist and lecturer of marketing at the Wharton School who wrote a case... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2018
News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

Anthony Mayo—members of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit recognized for their excellence in the classroom—quickly realized they needed to reinvent the way they taught. “We had to rethink basic... View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

organization, why men believe women are more emotionally intelligent, and the challenges female directors of corporations face in interacting with their male counterparts. 2006 pub Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Student-Profile

Justine Murray

hadn’t originally been part of her plan, Justine soon found herself excited by the idea of undertaking her own research. She volunteered as a research assistant at the London Business School, which confirmed her interest in organizational... View Details

13 Jan 2015
News

Advice and Credibility Go Hand-in-Hand for Managers

Keywords: management skills; leadership; authenticity; communication skills

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

the social mission. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives,” says Julie Battilana, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. “The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2022
News

I Gave at the Office

funds for her local animal shelter—and found it surprisingly difficult. Much later, in the second year of her PhD program, she discovered the field of behavioral economics and folded her non-academic interests into her research. For his... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

significantly as more consumers than ever started shopping online. As vaccines fuel hope about life after COVID-19, retailers are trying to learn more about the pandemic shopper. Are they different from the existing online users? Do they View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

say. “We saw an opportunity to explore this rapidly evolving practice and develop new material that is both exciting for our students and relevant for practitioners.” Leadership: Execution & Action Planning (LEAP) Assistant Professor Ryan Raffaelli and Senior Lecturer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Career Coach

Ellen Harris

that may not be readily obvious. Her background in advertising and marketing, and subsequently Organizational Behavior and Development/Facilitation/Consulting, shaped her belief that students and alumni... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise

01 Mar 2004
News

Alumni Bookshelf

organizational behavior and management at Rider University’s College of Business Administration. A Journey through Grief by James McGee (PMD 22, 1971) (1stBooks Library) With the subtitle Notes from a... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

explains Michel Anteby, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Filiz Garip of Harvard University, Paul V. Martorana of Wagner... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

01 Jun 2009
News

Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working paper, “Unmask-ing Manly Men:... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Mar 2004
News

Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits

legacy (past), global, and emerging (future) — the initiative aims to provide cutting-edge research on the often-elusive topic of leadership. Led by Anthony J. (“Tony”) Mayo (MBA ’88), its seven affiliated faculty members are part of the View Details