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  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

Business School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard Business Review) Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge If risk of... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • 15 Apr 2024
  • Book

Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters

what will work. Published with permission by Springer. Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Defining the Attributes and Processes that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms

By: Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas
Workforce diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization of the U.S. economy and the desire for organizations to more accurately reflect the demographic diversity of the US population. Yet, most research on diversity in organizations... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Globalization; Employees; Retention; Knowledge Sharing; Research; United States
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  • 13 Nov 2013
  • News

Gender Contamination: Why Men Prefer Products Untouched by Women

  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 11 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

transforming how work is done and how people are paid for it. This heightened tension between moral and material goals may be nowhere as intense as it is in journalism, a field with strong ethical convictions at its core, but whose... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

Social Circle Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image created with elements generated by Midjourney, an artificial... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

they can answer it in Slack.” You Might Also Like: In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Does Hybrid Work... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

A Life by Design

As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 09 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/Oscar... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Passion Works Against You 6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Looking Up... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

large and small. She bolstered her own technical knowledge of how to probe more deeply into the causes of failure in hospitals by attending the Executive Sessions on Medical Errors and Patient Safety at... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 27 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Direct reports: The new employee should start meeting with their direct reports via videoconferencing during... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

Luca says. In the study of small-business employees by Luca and his colleagues, 29 percent of Alignable members reported that moving to remote work increased their productivity. Among NABE members, that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

and missed opportunities that could be addressed.  This is also a time to strengthen partnerships with other organizations in a similar space. Rather than compete, you can find ways to multiply your impact by View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation
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  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

beyond.” You Might Also Like: Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks, published on February 15th 2022 by Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman