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    Jon M. Jachimowicz

    Jon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies... View Details

    • 20 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege

    Keywords: by Josephine Tan and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    • 29 Aug 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

    understand and address inequality around the world. Jon M. Jachimowicz is an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser
    • 09 Jun 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

    interacting with racial minorities motivates White people to self-segregate, says Harvard Business School professor Jon M. Jachimowicz. And White people often attempt to erect... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • 25 Nov 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    When Your Passion Works Against You

    There’s a time and a place for it,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Jon M. Jachimowicz. “It can even be dangerous if you’re not careful about when, how, View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 16 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

    Harvard Business School research. That’s because they tend to demonstrate their feelings more, using cues like animated facial expressions, while introverts come off as more aloof due to their quiet and reserved ways, says View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 24 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

    growing. Indeed, the appearance of the word “passion” in US job listings increased nearly tenfold from 2007 to 2019, according to the study, published in Research in Organizational Behavior by HBS assistant professor View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2022
    • Article

    The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others

    By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Self-fufilling Prophecy; Lay Beliefs; Interpersonal Processes; Employees; Performance; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Social Psychology
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    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Work and Workplace

    By: Kai Ruggeri, Jana Berkessel, Jascha Achterberg, Gerhard M. Prinz, Alessandra Luna-Navarro, Jon M. Jachimowicz and A. V. Whillans
    Work is a major part of many lives. While individual experiences with work will differ—from how long we work to what jobs we have and to what extent we enjoy them—almost everyone is affected by employment, whether they have a job or not. Decades of research in the... View Details
    Keywords: Workplace; Behavioral Insights; Retirement Savings; Working Conditions; Employees; Performance; Happiness; Health; Job Search; Change
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    • 18 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

    Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, coauthored the paper with Jon M. Jachimowicz of Columbia Business School; Julia J. Lee of the Ross School of Business at the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • December 2023
    • Article

    Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work

    By: Mijeong Kwon, Julia Lee Cunningham and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Intrinsic motivation has received widespread attention as a predictor of positive work outcomes, including employees’ prosocial behavior. In the current research, we offer a more nuanced view by proposing that intrinsic motivation does not uniformly increase prosocial... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Employees
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    Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

    By: Joyce He, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Celia Moore
    High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Potential; Gender; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Talent and Talent Management
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    • January–February 2024
    • Article

    The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

    By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Work-Life Balance; Employees; Emotions
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    • 01 Sep 2024
    • News

    Back to School

    because there is absolutely no other thing that compares. And believe me, I’ve tried it all. How to: Break a World Record Our instructor: Ming Chen (MBA 1998), Chief Culture Officer, Education First (EF) When I was in school in New... View Details
    Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran
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    Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

    Alison Wood Brooks Alex Chan Edward H. Chang Amy C. Edmondson Robin J. Ely Alexandra C. Feldberg Amit Goldenberg Boris Groysberg Linda A. Hill Jon M. Jachimowicz Summer R.... View Details
    • October 13, 2021
    • Editorial

    How Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now

    By: Daniel Stein, Nick Hobson, Jon M. Jachimowicz and Ashley Whillans
    A year and a half into the pandemic, employees’ mental “surge capacity” is likely diminished. Managers must take proactive steps to increase employee engagement, or risk losing their workforce. Engaged employees perform better, experience less burnout, and stay in... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Retention; Employee Engagement; Employee Relationship Management; Work-Life Balance
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    Faculty & Research - Race, Gender & Equity

    Groysberg Janice H. Hammond Nien-he Hsieh Jon M. Jachimowicz Summer R. Jackson Rosabeth M. Kanter Rembrand M.... View Details
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    Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

    Knowledge Articles Harvard Business Publishing July 24, 2024 Article Research: How Passion Can Backfire at Work By: Erica R. Bailey, Kai Krautter, Wen Wu, Adam D. Galinsky and Jon View Details
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    Student Research - Doctoral

    results Jonas Heese Accounting and Management 1 results More Robert S. Huckman Technology and Operations Management 2 results Victoria Ivashina Finance 1 results Jon View Details
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz , Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Alexis Lefort April 2025 | Case | Faculty Research For 20 years, Elizabeth Rowe was a... View Details