organizational behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2007
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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

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

01 Sep 2010
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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 Jun 2006
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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

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

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

to Brown University, where he majored in organizational behavior and management. The Ivy League school was “the first place where I really felt like an adult,” he recalls. Now a member of Brown’s board of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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 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

01 Jun 2016
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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 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice

practices that will allow people to flourish - the key to organizational success. Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Howard H. Stevenson (Harvard Business School Press) According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, most of human history and much of... View Details

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

success of the venture. Fieldhouse says HBS professors constantly challenged him and his classmates to think big and consider the impact of their actions. “I clearly remember the lectures from Michael Tushman about leading organizational... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

work and family," she notes. "I often have to make difficult choices between responsibilities at home and at the office. It's tough for a woman in a senior position." Meyer's challenges are not likely to subside. She is, however, considering taking a break from the... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

relationships. I thought Organizational Behavior was for wimps. Now, it’s a large part of what I do.” CURRENT READING The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, by Jeff Shaara “In business, the notion of... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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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

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

Schumpeter (pronounced “SHOOMpayter”) to the study of economic behavior was to humanize it. In part because of his own turbulent life, he came to understand that mathematical certitude could not always prevail where “indeterminate human... View Details

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

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

by Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972), Chairman, CEO and Cofounder of The Blackstone Group. For an event as monumental and impactful as the Leadership Dinner, the HBSCNY relies on a team of volunteer members who bring their varied management and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2015
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Ink

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015 Raje breaks C-suite workplaces into four categories: space used to enhance personal energy (think Zen gardens, cloth journals, and pictures of the family pup); space to create organizational... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

Lawrence, a world-renowned scholar of organizational behavior and the previous incumbent of the Donham chair. “Paul knew and deeply respected Donham,” Hill says. “He credited him with creating an... View Details