Faculty and Research

Michel Anteby is an Assistant Professor in the Organizational Behavior area at Harvard Business School. He has taught in the School's MBA, doctoral, and executive programs, most recently the first-year MBA "Leadership and Organizational Behavior" (LEAD) course, the "Design of Field Research Methods" (DFRM) doctoral seminar, and in Leadership Best Practices (LBP).

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Featured Work

Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant
by Michel Anteby

Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated practices--gray zones. When discovered, these transgressions often provoke disapproval; when company materials are diverted in the process, these breaches are quickly labeled theft. Yet, why do gray zones persist and why are they unlikely to disappear? In Moral Gray Zones, Michel Anteby shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers' identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control.

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