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- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
slogan, mano a mano. Seizing this as a chance for great publicity, Kelleher hyped the event as "Malice in Dallas," gave 700 Southwest employees the morning off and brought them to the event to cheer him on. The arena soon echoed...
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- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices. The gap between perceptions and...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
$1 million annually in cash and in-kind gifts and helping the organization to expand nationally. City Year in turn played a central role in helping Timberland develop and implement its strategy for community service and a high-engagement corporate culture. City Year...
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by James Austin
- May 2017
- Teaching Note
Building a Developmental Culture: The Birth of Deloitte University
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
This Teaching Note is a companion piece to the case, “Building a Developmental Culture: The Birth of Deloitte University,” HBS No. 411-059.
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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
promoting it a personal mission. Many had experienced what it was like to be an outsider, which gave them a deeper understanding of the barriers that women, in particular, face at work. The CEOs resoundingly agreed that an inclusive environment was one in which View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
high as 50 percent at the start of the school year. Thomas was struck by the Philadelphia district's approach to recruitment and retention. First, Tomás Hanna, special assistant to the district CEO, assembled a task force in 2002 of district View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
harmonization strategies. The analysis and framework in this paper can help broaden the understanding of accounting's globalization. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875682 Cases & Course MaterialsElizabeth Jacobs:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
"Instead of an outside regulation, an internal governance on salary structure, which is based on a value that 'Every employee should go home with a smile on his face' will create win-win situations for View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
click." Reinvestment—where "if someone succeeds, their felt obligation is to put it in the community"—is also increasing, said Stevenson, not just through angels, venture capitalists and other investors, but through View Details
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by Kenneth Liss
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
expected to.” Other models that might be followed were suggested. ReshoreNow pointed out that, “The Germans and Swiss have excellent apprenticeship training models.” Several respondents alluded to institutional shortcomings in delivering...
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- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
societies in ancient Australia (Kai Akerberg). Stephens Jr., who loves the idea, said, it does not come without extensive time, cost, and involvement in employee development. "I not only say yes (to the question of whether the time...
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- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
2011. Setting/Participants: Participants included 4,642 employees of a large hospital in Boston, MA, who were regular cafeteria patrons. Interventions: The first intervention was a traffic-light style color-coded labeling system...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
friendly employees," Frei continued. "The employees are friendlier in part because Commerce Bank only has four checking accounts; others may have forty checking accounts. So the bank can train...
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it's been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact with patients every day....
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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
and mobilizing employees to embrace them, and practicing dual-minded leadership. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55837 March–April 2019 Harvard Business Review Operational Transparency: Make Your...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
the firm feedback on this. In response, Buro Happold developed its first formal internal training programs under the name of "Archimedes Academy." The first two programs were (1) the Job Leader Program, targeted for senior...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers," according to HBS professor David A. Thomas. Since then, the number of female executives in the company has grown by 370...
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by David A. Thomas
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
low cost corporate-training efforts, according to Christensen. From Harvard's perspective, companies offer training, not education, Christensen said. But employees already get a lot of their education on the job, and View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
believed their department's performance was satisfactory, but poorly trained employees in other departments caused the failures. However, only 14% of the operational failures arose from errors or training....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
summaries of the working papers published by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2016: The Great Training Robbery There is a widely held...
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by Carmen Nobel