organizational behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Behavioral Finance — Benefiting... View Details

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

31 Jan 2025
News

New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1999
News

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

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

leadership electives. Required Curriculum (First Year) Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
News

Faculty Books

corporate headquarters’ role in setting, coordinating, and overseeing organizational strategy. The book’s case studies, frameworks, and sample scorecards show how to align business and support units, boards of directors, and external... View Details

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

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... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

beginning a distinguished two-decade academic career that culminated in his appointment, beginning July 1, as the School’s tenth Dean at age 48. A specialist in organizational behavior and leadership, Nohria... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Sep 2003
News

Patrick Moreton

will carry the day.” An assistant professor of organization and strategy at Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Moreton has focused his research on economic and organizational models of business strategy,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

01 Oct 2001
News

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

16 Jan 2014
News

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 Feb 1998
News

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

15 Nov 2016
News

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 Oct 2002
News

Faculty Research Symposium

and correction of such errors, Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson studied eight teams of caregivers from two different teaching hospitals to explore how group and organizational behaviors affect error... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Faculty Updates

Change (2000). He led the development of the School's first required course in human resource management in the 1980s and then cowrote Managing Human Assets (1984), the first book to frame human resource management as a general management responsibility. He has also... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)

When I graduated from Stanford, I had the opportunity to travel with an elite amateur team doing bike races, or I could go join a structural design firm in Pittsburgh. That was my choice. I chose to race bikes. I love the sport. I love the speed of it, the excitement... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark

01 Apr 2001
News

Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians

Hunnewell is focusing on matters of finance, organizational structure, governance, and development. Asked why he took on his new position, Hunnewell says, “I really enjoy working with young people in the arts. It’s very rewarding to help... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

23 Aug 2011
News

New Kid in School

Perold, and Peter Tufano — which he said had a lot to do with his initial career decision to go to Wall Street. “Also, in my first year,” he says, “I was fortunate to have Nitin Nohria as my Organizational View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

23 Sep 2021
News

Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

professor in Executive Education at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. “The OPN is a way to provide support to Black-owned businesses that are ready for growth but lack a few tools,” she says. “Our function is to help with operations, and View Details