Psychology and neuroscience

A study reveals the risks of helping your employees deal with personal problems.

It'll take more than subsidizing mass transit or encouraging ride-sharing, according to new research.

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, the 19th U.S. surgeon general and a tech entrepreneur, argues that cultivating emotional well-being at work can lessen people's loneliness...

The same question posed on the web and in print can yield very different answers, dramatically distorting survey results and misleading management. But,...

A quick wit may be the key to personal appeal, shows a new study out of the University of Queensland.

According to David Baldwin, a former Major League pitcher, blame can be a powerful and constructive force. It can be an effective teaching tool that helps...

“If you’re unhappy at work, you’re probably unhappy in life.”

How do you deal with the talented manager whose perfectionism paralyzes his direct reports? Or the high-performing expert who disdains teamwork under...

Research shows they prefer interactions that fuel their psychological needs — even if they require more time or cost more money.

Of all the meetings top executives attend in a year, none is more important than the strategy off-site, where the most essential conversations for the...

Stress is rampant, stress is growing, and stress hurts the bottom line. A 1999 study of 46,000 workers revealed that health care costs are 147% higher...

Two perspectives on the campaigns' marketing strategies.

Predictions made by large groups often turn out to be right, but sometimes they're dead wrong. Here's when not to trust the majority.

"It's worse than I thought....She's completely lost her mind," says Harry Beecham, the CEO of blue chip management consultancy Pierce and Co. The perplexed...

A skeptical look at the positive-psychology backlash.

A framework for getting yourself out of survival mode.

Living alongside the roughnecks and roustabouts on two offshore oil platforms, the authors learned that when the men abandoned their macho behavior, they...

In a new study by a scientist at the Planck Institute, people who simply believed that a championship golfer had used their club played better than other...

When professors Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone studied the factors that increased a group's collective intelligence, they made some surprising discoveries:...

Clarifying what the popular concept really means.

Service systems are inherently subject to variability, whether through customers, service providers, suppliers, or unexpected events. Yet customers demand...

This technical note gives an overview of the most commonly encountered problematic personality traits, also termed dark traits, within the academic literature....

The three-part case study "Mr. KLM" recounts the story of the world's deadliest plane accident: the crash of two Boeing 747 aircraft at Tenerife in 1977....

We live in a time of vast changes. And those changes call for entirely new ways of learning and thinking. In "Five Minds for the Future," Howard Gardner...

Dr. Bill Lemont is the new chief medical officer of a large academic medical center. During his first week on the job he has become aware of the abusive...

Few CEOs successfully manage the evolution of their companies from OEM outsourcer to branded manufacturer to expert consumer marketer as well as Tony...

This case tells the story of Alain St-Pierre, fire captain and the most decorated firefighter in Montréal's history, from childhood through retirement....

Infusing a culture of gratitude into an organization can enhance employee engagement and effectiveness. This note makes the case that focusing on this...

Case A is set in 2016. Trung Dung is the founder of iCare Benefits (iCare), a social enterprise established to aid low-income workers. His background...

We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back? Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot? Or unquestioningly...

Positive psychology emerged as a response to this necessity to study positive phenomena in a more consistent and rigorous manner, providing evidence and...

Teams often collapse over personality issues. This case explores such a collapse, in the context of an MBA student learning team. Students can explore...

Describes the outcome of the labor relations issues.

You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel...

During the two years in which coach Jürgen Klinsmann prepared the national soccer team for the World Cup, Germany experienced a soccer revolution. Klinsmann...

This case tells the story of Alain St-Pierre, fire captain and the most decorated firefighter in Montréal's history, from childhood through retirement....

In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from...

On January 6, 2019, HelloSelf, a London-based "BrainTech" company, founded a year earlier by Charles Wells, soft launched. The proposition was simply...

The benefits of mindfulness include better performance, heightened creativity, deeper self-awareness, and increased charisma--not to mention greater peace...

You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you're stuck or paralyzed. You're convinced...

A study reveals the risks of helping your employees deal with personal problems.

Service systems are inherently subject to variability, whether through customers, service providers, suppliers, or unexpected events. Yet customers demand...

Getting sales right nowadays requires a balance of science, creativity, efficiency, and empathy. This issue of Harvard Business Review OnPoint will help...

This technical note gives an overview of the most commonly encountered problematic personality traits, also termed dark traits, within the academic literature....

Goals help us get important work done. The sense of purpose they provide focuses our energy. Consistently setting and hitting objectives takes more than...

The three-part case study "Mr. KLM" recounts the story of the world's deadliest plane accident: the crash of two Boeing 747 aircraft at Tenerife in 1977....

It'll take more than subsidizing mass transit or encouraging ride-sharing, according to new research.

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, the 19th U.S. surgeon general and a tech entrepreneur, argues that cultivating emotional well-being at work can lessen people's loneliness...

The same question posed on the web and in print can yield very different answers, dramatically distorting survey results and misleading management. But,...

A quick wit may be the key to personal appeal, shows a new study out of the University of Queensland.