Organization Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

How to onboard recently graduated MBAs

fostering normative behaviors becomes more complex. To reduce tensions and increase mutual satisfaction in the workplace, Brennan suggests a variety of policies and perspectives that can make onboarding more successful: In-person... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Feb 1998
News

Not Your Typical Business Conference

conference organizer Karen A. Page (MBA '89) put it, to "tell their stories, discover they're not so different from one another, and learn some useful ideas for making their lives and careers more successful and satisfying." It was a... View Details

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

18 Mar 2020
News

Leading Change

Leadership in the Age of Climate Change that HBS has been organizing around the country in partnership with alumni clubs to understand how climate change is shaping the future of business,” says Jennifer Nash, Director of BEI, who... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside the Bestseller List with James Andrew Miller

inside look at ESPN, with author Tom Shales—both bestsellers. “I love looking at organizations and studying and reporting on how they operate, what the culture is inside, and how the strategy changes over the course of a company’s life,”... View Details

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

for set periods of experimentation (zones of time). By balancing transparency and privacy, organizations can encourage just the right amount of "deviance" to foster innovative behavior and boost... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2019
News

Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

des Autodidactes (VDA)—the self-made entrepreneurs award—held in Paris on May 14. “This event celebrates self-made entrepreneurs of small- and medium-sized companies who started working right after high school,” explains Alexandra Mannai (MBA 2015), who helped View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

how organizations can create moral behavior using unspoken cues. Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway Why do businesses evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, ignoring the job's... View Details

27 May 2015
News

Hannah Merves (MBA 2015) Wins Dean’s Award for Service to Harvard Business School Community and Beyond

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

behavior whose work includes corporate consulting. "And I thought, did I ask an awkward question? So I asked again, 'How do you add value to your organization?' I got more nervous laughter." “If you're tied down by your job... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

(MBA 2016) picked up the mantle in 2015; Sapone and Beck made end-of-day calls to the team. The program has since been handed down each year, an organic part of the growing HBS entrepreneurial ecosystem, which now also includes Startup... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

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 2012
News

FIELD 2: Global Intelligence

a new concept for a product or service for global partner organizations around the world. In January, they spent a week in the region conducting market research and meeting with the organization to refine... View Details

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

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

capital markets and firms’ social, environmental, and governance performance. Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, also had ties to HBS before joining the faculty. After earning her doctorate in... View Details

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-Expression Authors:Dan M. Cable, Francesca Gino, and Brad Staats Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new View Details