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- 31 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance
- 2018
- Working Paper
Status Inconsistency: Variance in One's Status Across Groups Harms Well-being but Improves Perspective-taking
By: Catarina Fernandes and Alison Wood Brooks
Most people belong to many different groups. While some people experience consistently high or low status across all of their groups, others experience wildly different levels of status in each group. In this research, we examine how status inconsistency – the degree...
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Andrew Wasynczuk
Andy Wasynczuk joined the faculty of Harvard Business School in the spring of 2005. He has taught a wide range of negotiation courses in the required and elective MBA curriculum. He currently teaches the popular elective course on Negotiation. For many years, he... View Details
- 09 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge
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by Heidi K. Gardner
- 2005
- Chapter
Beyond 'Fun and Games': Outdoor Activities for Meaningful Leadership Development
Many managers and academics today view outdoor exercises as simply "fun and games." However, framed correctly, outdoor leadership activities provide a uniquely effective method for leadership development. They allow participants to access and explore the deeper...
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Learning;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Leadership Development;
Personal Development and Career;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Emotions;
Personal Characteristics;
Alignment
Petriglieri, Gianpiero, and Jack D. Wood. "Beyond 'Fun and Games': Outdoor Activities for Meaningful Leadership Development." In Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion, edited by Paul J. Strebel and Tracy Keys, 252–266. London: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2005.
- 29 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration
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by Mark Mortensen & Tsedal Neeley
- Article
Conversational Receptiveness: Expressing Engagement with Opposing Views
By: M. Yeomans, J. Minson, H. Collins, H. Chen and F. Gino
We examine “conversational receptiveness”—the use of language to communicate one’s willingness to thoughtfully engage with opposing views. We develop an interpretable machine-learning algorithm to identify the linguistic profile of receptiveness (Studies 1A-B). We then...
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Receptiveness;
Natural Language Processing;
Disagreement;
Interpersonal Communication;
Relationships;
Conflict Management
Yeomans, M., J. Minson, H. Collins, H. Chen, and F. Gino. "Conversational Receptiveness: Expressing Engagement with Opposing Views." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 160 (September 2020): 131–148.
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
improvement collaboration. The results support our hypothesis that learn-how is positively related to organizational performance, as measured by NICUs' risk-adjusted mortality rates for 1,061 infant patients. Moreover, our data reveal...
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Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Chapter
Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological Safety and Learning in Diverse Teams
By: A. Edmondson and Kate Roloff
We review research on psychological safety and team learning to identify core ideas and findings in these closely related literatures and to propose a model in which a negative relationship between team member diversity and team collaboration is moderated by...
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Interpersonal Communication;
Groups and Teams;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Performance Improvement;
Learning;
Diversity
Edmondson, A., and Kate Roloff. "Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological Safety and Learning in Diverse Teams." In Team Effectiveness in Complex Organizations: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches, edited by E. Sales, G. G. Goodwin, and C. S. Burke.Organizational Frontiers Series. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008.
- May 2021
- Article
Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being
By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel
The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable...
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Rotenstein, Lisa, Robert S. Huckman, and Christine K. Cassel. "Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being." Academic Medicine 96, no. 5 (May 2021).
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social and cultural mandates. This demonstrates that relational governance is important and feasible in the global context and for the most risky transactions. Finally we...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
PhD Programs - Doctoral
on the study of interpersonal relationships within organizations and the effects that groups have on individuals. Students in the macro track use sociological methods to examine organizations, groups, and markets as a whole, including...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Persuasion Author: Eric J. Van den Steen Abstract This paper studies a principal's trade-off between using persuasion versus using interpersonal authority to get the agent to "do the right thing" from the principal's perspective...
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Martha Lagace
- September–October 2013
- Article
Discretion Within Constraint: Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization
By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael Tushman
Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography...
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Familiarity;
Interpersonal Communication;
Information Technology;
Organizational Structure;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Gender;
Information Technology Industry
Kleinbaum, Adam M., Toby E. Stuart, and Michael Tushman. "Discretion Within Constraint: Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization." Organization Science 24, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 1316–1336.
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
adjust behavior along those dimensions for desired outcomes. The 360° assessment is called the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI), and it is administered by Korn Ferry. The assessment provides insight into core interpersonal...
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
Module 3 Managing the Negotiation Process: Bargaining Tactics, Style, and Emotion Examine the relational dimension of negotiation and explore interpersonal dynamics, bargaining styles, tactics, and emotions....
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- Web
Organizational Behavior - Doctoral
School are prepared to pursue an interdisciplinary inquiry into issues that are broadly related to the functioning of individuals within groups, at either the micro or macro level. Graduates of our program go on to become the leading...
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- 17 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century
dynamics that thwart learning and my growing interest in how work takes place in the team and in the team context," she says. Understanding the impact of interpersonal dynamics is crucial. "There's a growing recognition that most of...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
theory on this important workplace behavior. Findings also suggest a profoundly asymmetrical relation between the intrapersonal motivations for and against speaking up, leading to a novel theoretical explanation for the prevalence of...
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Sean Silverthorne