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David Lazer
(Methodology, Networked Governance)

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Stanley Wasserman
(Current Trends, Methodology, Social Networks)

Guy Stuart
(Economic Sociology, Finance)

Allan Friedman
(Simulations)

Nathan Eagle
(Technology, Social Computing, Powerlaws, Current Trends)

Ben Waber
(Technology, Social Computing)
Ines Mergel
(Knowledge Sharing, Social Computing, Social Software, Current Trends)

Maria Binz-Scharf
(Qualitative Methodology, Knowledge Sharing, eGovernment)

Alexander Schellong
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    3 March 2008

    HBS online exhibition: The Human Relations Movement

    The Harvard Business School library hosts a great online exhibition called "The Human Relations Movement" with explanations and pictures of the Hawthorne Effect.

    Harvard researchers have studied the Hawthorne plant between 1924 and 1933 by observing how different changes in work-related variables effect performance.

    The Hawthorne effect is described by Rothlisberger as:

    "the phenomenon in which subjects in behavioral studies change their performance in response to being observed"

    Posted by Ines Mergel at March 3, 2008 9:26 AM