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Olivia Melendez

organizational behavior would really enhance my ability to lead. I was also ready for a personal change. As much as I loved my West Coast life (especially weekends in Tahoe), I have to admit that I missed... View Details

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Harvard Business School

of strategic human resource management, David A. Thomas received his bachelor's from Yale University in administrative sciences and his master's degree in organizational psychology from Columbia University. He later earned a master's... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

opportunities in relation to other countries. She also notes that Leadership and Organizational Behavior “opened my eyes to my own internal leadership strengths and weaknesses.” “I want to build a healthy... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Stephen Covey's Successful Habits

conducting business - according to certain principles: honesty, integrity, respect, kindness, meaningful work, fairness, and justice. These are the classic, self-evident principles we incorporate into our 7 Habits; we believe they are fundamental to creating a positive... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

in Organizations, Simmons Graduate School of Management, in Boston. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she taught at Columbia University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Ely received her Ph.D. in Organizational View Details

16 Jan 2014
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Learning from Helping Others

learned more than anyone else," she says. The work-hard-play-hard environment produced some of her most enduring friendships—Peter Nolan, Andrew Peisch, Suzanne Pollock, Kris Klein—among classmates, and she also met her husband, Alan Jones, at HBS. Favorite subjects... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate ourselves." Senior Lecturer... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

competition by moving quickly into new cities, balancing the buying power of multinational retailers who were also purchasing merchandise for export, leveraging Beijing Hualian's understanding of the rapidly changing domestic market,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

are a part and by individual differences such as race and gender. Dr. Porter holds five college degrees: a PhD in organizational behavior and a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Harvard; as well as a... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Noted & Quoted

Michael Porter on health-care reform strategy (New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 2009). “There are relatively fewer and fewer consumers willing to pay a premium or suffer a deficit in product quality in order to be patriotic and View Details

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

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

maintain competitiveness in a situation where China essentially says: ‘First we will buy from you, but then we will do it ourselves.’ It gets very complicated.” Still, Shih added that the U.S. aerospace industry is strong enough to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

"mainstream" organizational culture. But Meyerson argues that these "everyday leaders" can act as crucial sources of new ideas, alternative perspectives, and organizational learning and change. Expectations... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance

01 Mar 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)

what’s going on in the world through our purchasing decisions. Our research shows that two-thirds of people, across all age groups and incomes, now buy or boycott a brand based on where it stands on the political or social issues they... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

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Curriculum | MBA

key disciplines. Fall Term Finance 1 Financial Reporting & Control (FRC) Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) Marketing Technology & Operations Management (TOM) Strategy Spring Term Data Science & AI... View Details

16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then examine how the mind selectively... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
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The Sparkles in Our Skies

fossil fuels, extracted by mining or drilling, for raw material. Aether’s innovation is sourcing the building blocks for its diamonds from pollution already in the air, through a carbon-capture company in Switzerland. In addition to the impact it makes through its... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

04 May 2020
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Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

hard decisions about returning to the market. Here’s a common prediction: Social distancing forces people to do more buying online and communicating through social media, thus accelerating a permanent, big shift after the crisis to more... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

improvement in performance (PIP)-a proxy for quality and an important organizational climate antecedent for positive, discretionary behaviors of frontline staff. We compare change in PIP in the treatment... View Details