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- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
very excited about this because, even though the attention-grabbing result here is that women get price discriminated, we can fix it with a relatively low cost,” she says. “But the other aspect is that consumers actually are able to change [their] View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Professor Barnes Remembered
Professor emeritus Louis (“By”) Barnes (MBA ’52, DBA ’58), an expert in organizational behavior and a pioneer in the teaching and study of family-owned business issues, died in August. He was 81. For more... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Zameer Kassam, MBA 2007
“I found my passion at HBS. When Rob Kaplan challenged our Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to articulate our passion, I surprised myself by announcing, ‘I am passionate about jewelry.’ It was a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Michael Tushman Periodical:Research in Organizational Behavior (forthcoming). (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-088, 2007) Abstract How do organizations survive in the face of change? Underlying... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
system of global management, to the extent it can still be called American, will look less like it used to and more like something "multinational." People are willing to adjust their behavior to facilitate teamwork, but they... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
aligning behavior in an organization). The company environment in which go-to-market initiatives are developed and executed: how communication does or doesn't work across internal organizational boundaries;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
buy the product, and whether the product had business potential. The researchers discovered that the ideas that were rated the highest were created through interaction between those with a high openness quotient and those who are... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
sense of self. Thus the decision can be laden with emotional factors that are less important in decisions to buy books, music, groceries, and electronics. Ample evidence suggests that current B2C sites are unable to characterize their... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
emotional reaction that leaves the conscious brain incapable of making a rational response. Understanding the irrationality of human behavior is essential for understanding how people relate - or do not relate - to each other, which is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 12 May 2016
- Webinars: Career
Adding Resilience to Your Career Toolkit
How can we handle adversity in our lives, whether it is the day-to-day stressors we face or major turbulence that hits us periodically? According to Professor Joshua Margolis, it is possible to build resilience by taking charge of how one both thinks about and reacts... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
associate professors, Kathleen L. Valley, Robert J. Robinson, and George Wu, add to the unit's research portfolio through their differing yet complementary backgrounds. Valley examines conflicts in the workplace through the lens of View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
transactions. Now they're requiring that the health-care system also provide convenience and information. Patients can't be patient anymore. What other market forces are at work? Major organizational changes. During the 1980s, companies... View Details
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Raffaella Sadun | Working Knowledge
School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Her research focuses on managerial and organizational drivers of productivity and growth in corporations and the public sector. She co-founded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
about their colleagues, jobs, and life outside work. “Management, then, was not about controlling human behavior but unleashing human possibility,” as HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana and HBS assistant professor Michel Anteby write... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015 Raje breaks C-suite workplaces into four categories: space used to enhance personal energy (think Zen gardens, cloth journals, and pictures of the family pup); space to create organizational... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
organizational leaders of more than thirty companies now operating in Africa, including Colgate-Palmolive and Merrill Lynch. The day concluded with a reception that allowed HBS students and alumni with professional aspirations or... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
widespread belief that Greater China which encompasses the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong is a huge, open market of 1.2 billion consumers who will buy anything that any business has ever wanted to sell. That is not the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- Web
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
enabling coordinated action in pursuit of organizational performance. Our emphasis is on how GMs get things done through making and guiding both larger and smaller decisions. We show how to use decision-making processes to achieve results... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
obesity is contagious: If my family and friends are obese, the likelihood of me being obese is much higher. Later studies refuted that claim because of the inherent problem of homophily, which simply means that birds of a feather flock together. If you View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
other's beliefs about demand. Thus, in this paper's setting, improved communication can induce alignment even if no economic incentives are changed. While consistent with the predominant view in organizational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace