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- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
In 2009, a 51-year-old man killed himself in Marseille, a city in southern France, leaving behind a suicide note that blamed his employer for “overwork” and “management by terror.” “I am committing suicide because of my View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
Good for Your Career After All Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Designer's note: Illustration created using art generated by... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 25 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business
Good for Your Career After All Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image note: The illustration was created using art generated by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out
Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment Feedback or ideas to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
addressing the other is unlikely to lead to sustainable progress.” You Might Also Like: How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap Why Employers Favor Men Feedback or ideas to share? Email the View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
possible for us to have institutions that are not organized that way and that don't perpetuate disadvantage. It’s our choice. It's whether we want to do the work to make those changes.” About the Author Kristen Senz is the growth View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
- 06 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better
heard by another person is essential in a happy relationship, whether that’s communication between romantic partners, a patient and a doctor, or colleagues in the office. And feeling heard at work could make... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Sep 2013
- News
Mobility and Organizational Culture
- 30 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash
It seems obvious: If you want to boost innovation from a crowd writing and improving software code, just dangle a cash incentive. When GitHub began offering matching funds to open source software users who snagged outside sponsors in 2019, it seemed to View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
hope my book helps managers better understand that responsibility and how to fulfill it. About the Author Kristen Senz is the growth editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image:... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge... View Details
- 15 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy
Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message? How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image created by HBSWK with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
low-cost labor but rather fearing high-quality labor that comes at low cost." Regarding the migration of labor, Tayyab Rashid said, "High-paying work is knowledge work. That is not going... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
from, Riedel says. “Ed Stack struck the right balance, and he can always say, ‘I did the right thing for the right reasons,’’’ says Riedel. [iStockphoto/Miosotis Jade] Related reading from the Working View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller
Gerdeman of HBS Working Knowledge. Inspired by the case "Larry Miller." Made possible by a Harvard Library Advancing Open Knowledge Grant and... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
posed by greater decentralization not only in health care but in other settings as well. "Some services that we have thought of as commodities actually have subtle features that make them differentiated," he says. "Ultimately, the... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
All is about how ordinary people, working together, can effect change by recognizing and altering “power imbalances” where they live and work, Battilana says. “The motive for the book was to debunk fallacies... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
developed an influential body of work about justice, starting from the premise that ignorance might just be bliss. His theories were designed to consider a monumental, if esoteric, question: If you were in charge of the world and had to... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis