PANTHEON
ExploreBuild My Library
© 2026 Pantheon — an atlas of the ideas that shaped how we think.
Discipline Focus

harvard business school

3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Alison Wood Brooks

American psychologist and Harvard Business School professor — author of Talk — who studies conversation science and negotiation — whose research on anxiety reappraisal (reframing nervousness as excitement) is among the most cited in communication psychology.

psychologyharvard business schoolconversationnegotiation
View Profile
Thinker

Ethan Bernstein

Harvard Business School professor who studies organizational behavior — known for his research on transparency paradoxes in organizations — demonstrating that increasing monitoring and visibility of employees often decreases their productivity.

harvard business schoolorganizational behaviortransparency
View Profile
Thinker

Michael Porter

American economist and Harvard Business School professor — author of Competitive Strategy (1980) and Competitive Advantage (1985) — who created the Five Forces model, the value chain concept, and generic competitive strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, focus) — the most cited strategy scholar in history.

usaharvard business schoolcompetitive strategymicroeconomics
View Profile