Organization Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

history. The excitement traditionally generated by these annual events was further heightened this year as participants gathered in Hong Kong, the gateway city to China, which on July 1 will revert from British rule to Chinese sovereignty. The View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

09 Mar 2023
News

Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

details yet, such as who we might have as a guest speaker. Do we invite a faculty member, or a local business leader? We're working on it." Mauze says the club will organize the events with the guiding principles of community service,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

to actually use sophisticated behaviors is futile. That's what drives the need for coaches. Then you say, OK, let's assume that we accept the fact that (a) a lot of knowledge in businesses is tacit, not explicit; (b) that we need to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
News

Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch

Sanders, a Tennessee native who graduated from Florida A&M University with a degree in accounting. "It was great to be able to give back to an organization that could have a similar impact on someone's life." By his own account, the two... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2001
News

Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni

1997), she took the initiative and organized a successful event. By creating awareness and encouraging participation through flyers, telephone calls, and e-mails, Kwiker quickly established herself as the driving force behind the HBS Club... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2013
News

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

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Faculty Mentors | Research Associates

Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Joshua R. Schwartzstein Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration Julian J. Zlatev Julie Damgard Frist and Thomas Frist III Associate Professor... View Details

26 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

Research limitations/implications—The authors interviewed 125 successful leaders of major organizations and studied the cases of top leaders who failed. Practical implications—The five perils of the leadership journey, distinctive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2024
News

The Musts of 2024

because I had a coach—a behavioral psychologist—come and teach our company and coach them for four months from Mexico, and at the end of that at an all-staff meeting, he announced that we're becoming a self-managing company. The same day... View Details

03 Nov 2011
What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

determine the behavior of management or does the behavior of management determine our value system? (from Athan Sunderland), "Is (our) organization a place where balanced... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His nonprofit is called MaiTai Global, and... View Details

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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

Jun 2025 The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation Daniella Diniz 14 May 2025 Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations 31 Mar 2025 Maggie... View Details

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

Revelation of Bad News, were published in September. To determine when and why companies engage in this behavior and what it might indicate about their future earnings, the research team examined roughly 70,000 call transcripts from all... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

01 Mar 2008
News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart,” HBS professor Jim Sebenius and Research Associate Ellen Knebel show two very different organizations doing just that. The cases are part of a series that involve hard bargaining situations. “The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2011
News

Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

Through his writings, through his participation in hundreds of academic seminars, and through his mentorship of dozens of doctoral theses — mine included — Howard has left an indelible mark on a generation of scholars with his deep insights about human View Details

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

12 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

this as well, and eventually his list of do’s and don’ts came to comprise part of my inner compass, guiding my behavior to this day. As my research with innovative organizations has shown, allowing employees... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation

01 Mar 2015
News

Clubs Hopping

Reaching Out The first annual HBS Latino Alumni Association Southern Dinner, held in Dallas last fall, was more than a social occasion for outgoing club president Al Suarez (MBA 2005) and event organizer Eric Calderon (MBA 2013)—it was... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

18 Jan 2022
News

HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

live music by a string orchestra, a product ‘fashion show,’ and a few games with prizes.” Overall, Dai and Gong say the Entrepreneurship Forum was an overwhelming success, in terms of participation—a record high—and in its organization... View Details