Organization Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

mastery" goals probably lead to better effects than strict "performance" goals. Good people with the best of intentions can focus so much on a stretch goal that they fail to recognize how it leads to unethical behavior and/or excessive... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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Durdana Achakzai

an MBA. In these environments, getting accepted is all about performance. "Prove to other stakeholders that you're there to add value to the organization and you'll eventually win respect," Durdana says. "Women just have to... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

intranet. The personal behavior of executives reinforces the message. Employees become truly empowered by understanding what the organization wishes to accomplish, and how they can contribute to these... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

concluding section. Global companies will need to organize cross-functional value capture teams focused on appropriating value from their know-how and reputation by combining different institutional, market, and nonmarket tools, depending... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Combating Climate Change

behavior of all those people, one by one—or change what we’re making on the front end and have a greater impact on the world overall.” —Bridget Nyland (MBA 2019), Co-Chair, Energy and Environment Club’s Energy Symposium MBA Program:... View Details

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 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

Reinhardt is currently studying the relationships between business behavior and environmental quality, particularly in the energy industry and the food and agribusiness sector. His research focuses on the relationship between... View Details

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 Oct 2001
News

Gordon Celebrates a Century

Gordon family organized a 100-mile relay race that began at 4:30 a.m. and finished at 8:30 p.m. Twenty family and community members participated, each running four to eight miles. Gordon, the legendary Wall Street figure whose career at... View Details

Keywords: Albert H. Gordon (MBA 1925); Finance

01 Oct 2000
News

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

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to behaviors impacting the environment.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2019
News

Seismic Shift

she thought; it was about putting people in positions who were willing to push beyond office politics and take action to make diversity and inclusion mission critical. So Hoffman started her own company, which would eventually become Culture Shift Labs—an View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2006
News

Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC). Whitehead is also the founder of HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), dedicated to generating and sharing knowledge that helps organizations and individuals create... View Details

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

Cespedes: For most firms, the largest, most difficult, and increasingly expensive part of strategy implementation is aligning field behaviors and go-to-market systems with espoused strategic goals. It's the largest because doing this well... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

interest in renewable energy. “It’s an area we’re going to have to tackle over our lifetime,” she notes. “From my perspective, there’s going to be a huge number of opportunities in this area going forward.” Recently, she made a more immediate difference by View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

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

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and post-colonial feminist lenses. She has published in Organization Science , Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Contexts, and Idafat: Arab Journal of Sociology (in... View Details

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

and Processes, now in its 3rd edition, and a coeditor of a volume on gendered approaches to work and change, Reader in Gender, Work and Organization. Her research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Applied View Details

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