Organization Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
News

HBS Club Flourishes in London

The British have never been known to shrink from a challenge, and the intrepid members of the United Kingdom's HBS Club of London are no exception. When the club was bested by alumni of INSEAD in a winetasting contest last year, club president Mark J.H. Weedon (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni Connections

Recent HBS Alumni Events on Campus and Beyond In April, the Boston Women’s Leadership Accelerator event was held on the HBS campus to connect HBS alumnae in a new way around important topics and issues. The event was organized by local... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Charting the Year Ahead

Cooper This past summer saw another successful HBS Global Leadership Forum, this time in Washington, D.C. Attendance exceeded 640 alumni and guests, many of whom had not been to a previous GLF. On behalf of the Alumni Board, who turned out in strength, a very big... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2004
News

Exotic Travel

break it into categories. For enjoying animals and wildlife, I’d say the Galapagos Islands or Tanzania. For culture, I’d say Thailand or Morocco. For a great beach, Bora Bora in the South Pacific offers unlimited activities. How did your time at HBS prepare you for... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Hospitality; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2004
News

GLF Showcases London

forum, titled “New Barriers and New Opportunities: Leading in an Uncertain World,” is shaping up to be a truly remarkable event. Professor Nancy Koehn, the forum’s faculty chair, has done an outstanding job of organizing a lineup of HBS... View Details

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

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Social Performance (CSP)? A: Corporate Social Performance is a term used to describe "strategic" behavior by a firm. When a firm engages in environmental or other social performance that is... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2010
News

Students Assist Needy Family

A Boston family threatened with homelessness got a financial lift from more than seventy HBS students just before Thanksgiving. In response to an e-mail campaign launched by roommates Grace Simmons and Jennifer Kelm (both HBS ’10), their classmates used the charity... View Details

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

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a course that was specifically about consumer finance. Here at HBS, we have a rich set of finance... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

address issues related to the social and behavioral determinants of health, preventative care, effective management of chronic disease, and understanding the limits of medical intervention. Module 2— Optimizing Care : This module will... View Details

November 2008 (Revised September 2014)
Background Note

Differences at Work: The Leadership Challenge

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This note reviews research findings on the leadership challenges of diversity, including the social psychology of similarity and difference, the value of multiple perspectives to problem-solving, the relationship between diversity and firm performance, and management... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Leadership; Behavior; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Diversity

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01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom

Administration, is coeditor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software and has published cases on organizations that practice crowdsourcing, including Data.gov, TopCoder, OpenIDEO, Google, Threadless, and Wikipedia. He serves as... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2000
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Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning

employees are concerned, the problem in their organization had to do with the fundamentals of management and leadership, not the quality or commitment of the people nor the quality of management systems and processes," write Beer and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2005
News

Service Leadership Fellows Named

Eight members of the Class of 2005 left Soldiers Field last spring with one-year fellowships coordinated by the HBS Service Leadership Fellows Program. The program encourages graduating students to gain experience in nonprofit and public-sector organizations. The... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

02 Aug 2019
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Fulfilling Their Promise

After an eye-opening experience as a volunteer mentor, former auto executive Susan Schooner (MBA 1983) launched Girls Group, an organization designed to economically and emotionally support middle and high school girls in the Ann Arbor,... View Details

01 Dec 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

the efforts of current conference organizers as well as creating a sustainable infrastructure for future conferences. As I mentioned, the Global Alumni Conferences play a vital role in our continuing education mission. The conference... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

14 Apr 2021
News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

attend HBS. Together, they have launched PowerUP, a nonprofit organization that gives disadvantaged Atlanta youth new opportunities for personal development by providing scholarships to pay for martial arts training. Learn more about how... View Details

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The Moral Leader - Course Catalog

behavior that can derail leaders. In addition, fiction lets students see leaders from the inside. In real life, people in charge rarely give complete, unvarnished accounts of their thinking. In contrast, fiction lets us watch leaders... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments

Margolis is the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration. A member of the Organizational Behavior Unit, Margolis joined the HBS faculty in 2000. His research focuses on the distinctive ethical challenges that... View Details

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