Organizational Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Our Leadership | Information Technology

Security Chris Pringle, HBS Campus Information Security Officer IT Talent Management, Services & Support Heath Racine, Senior Managing Director Learning Experience Design & Interactive Spaces Jeanne Po, Managing Director Organizational... View Details

2006
Working Paper

On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

This paper shows why members of an organization often share similar beliefs. I argue that there are two mechanisms. First, when performance depends on making correct decisions, people prefer to work with others who share their beliefs and assumptions, since such... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Values and Beliefs; Mathematical Methods

Citation

SSRN

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Student-Profile

Anastassia Fedyk

Princeton, I took a slightly different approach, and spent a few years doing research and portfolio management at Goldman Sachs. I worked on statistical arbitrage strategies, news sentiment in credit markets, and regime-switching models,... View Details

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

management to the wrong kinds of tasks. As he put it, " in places where creative solutions are needed time management or micro management is a difficult concept to grasp." Francis Wade said that "Our research reveals that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

Freedom to use vacation time to attend celebrations with family and friends helps improve performance for employees who work far away from their hometowns, new research by Prithwiraj Choudhury suggests. When employees move away from their... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Dec 2002
News

Faculty Updates

Michael Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1975. An expert in the areas of organizational effectiveness, change, and human resource management, Beer has authored or coauthored... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A social enterprise visionary

of Goldman Sachs, and US Deputy Secretary of State. In the past two decades, the SEI has become a mainstay at HBS, influencing both research and teaching, and providing students and executives with the View Details

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

global marketplace, we have done extensive research and found that names can play an enormous role in a product's success. Teams Have Changed: Catching Up to the Future Authors:Heidi K. Gardner, Ruth Wageman, and Mark Mortensen... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

students; currently, 132 students are studying to receive a DBA (offered in accounting, management, marketing, strategy, and TOM) or, in collaboration with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a PhD (business economics, View Details

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

Web

2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

influence, including classroom teaching; practitioner-oriented publishing; using research to inform organizations; and conducting organizational interventions as venues for creating change through... View Details

July 1990 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Consolidated Equipment Co.

By: Samuel L. Hayes III

A mature company seeks to rejuvenate itself with internal R&D and external acquisitions. It has developed a DCK model for analyzing the value of a proposed acquisition. A rewritten version of an earlier case by J.K. Butters. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Valuation; Business Growth and Maturation; Research and Development; Acquisition; Capital Budgeting

Citation

Educators

Purchase

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Dec 2003
News

Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth

remarks follow. While our survey did not explore the reasons for choosing branching over affiliation, some nonprofits may prefer branching because it allows the nonprofit leader to exert the most control since the new organizational units... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Service with a Smile

Intentions to Quit,” was published in the December 2002 Journal of Organizational Behavior. Not surprisingly, the researchers found that workers who are asked to suppress negative or unpleasant emotions are... View Details

Keywords: Laura Morgan Roberts; Stephane Cote; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Student-Profile

Sarah Wolfolds

organizational practices of firms, and how these interact with the firms’ strategies. Coming into graduate school with less clearly defined interests meant that I have been able to use my coursework to guide potential View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Faculty Books

Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety... View Details

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

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

Akron, Ohio tire cluster—to try to discover how Akron companies turned into what he calls a "community of inertia." Drawing as well on research by other scholars, including Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, Sull's... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

cover in one of the chapters in the book. A network approach requires leaders to focus not only on management challenges and opportunities at an organizational level, but also more broadly on how to mobilize resources both within and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Publications