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- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
researchers asked survey respondents a wide range of questions related to their beliefs and preferences. They found that overall, non-binary individuals: Underestimated their own performance more than women, who also underestimate their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
Reasons Why a Diverse Workforce Drives High Performance,” fdmgroup.com/blog/diversity-for-business performance, October 31, 2022. Your feedback to last month’s column As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B? Several... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
in seconds today. If Miller hadn’t concealed his previous life of crime, would he ever have been given the chance to start fresh and perform his way to remarkable success, making his mark as a highly influential African American business... View Details
- 03 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers
“Women experience the fear that people are going to think they’re not good at, competent in, or capable in their roles. They’re trying to perform for an audience to disprove negative stereotypes, which constrains their behavior,” Feldberg... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
of Harvard Business School and a window into research and research support at the School, the case method, and the classroom experience. Teaching faculty join study groups and practice preparing and opening a case, and then receive View Details
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
companies would be better off making mentoring mandatory for all new workers since that would yield much higher productivity and performance gains, the researchers say. "You have to make the program apply to everyone, not just those who... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 24 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy
areas with less anti-Black racial bias. “Collectively, our findings suggest that digital platforms can effectively boost the performance of minority firms, particularly during a time of increased national awareness of the challenges that... View Details
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
performative actions.” Schultz isn’t the only business leader struggling with this challenge. Many employees do not desire to return to the office. So, what should business leaders do? First, as a leader, it is helpful to listen to the... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
Gibson. To help us, we brought on stage a group of performers from Second City, the Chicago-based company that established the first ongoing improvisational theater troupe. Second City is the place where Tina Fey, Bill Murray, and many... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- Blog
What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?
to distributing assignments, to managing performance and promotions. Undermine stereotypes. If you're a man, model behavior that makes it safer for all men—and all people—to lean into caregiving. Take your full parental leave, for... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
Her Gender Shades project with Joy Buolamwini found that facial recognition services offered by IBM, Microsoft, and other companies misidentified Black women as much as 35 percent of the time while performing nearly perfectly with white... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
aligned with its strategic performance goals and its human and customer-centric values. Because managers at all levels are held accountable for implementing and maintaining this governance and learning system, it becomes embedded in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time & Live A Happier Life (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Your feedback to last month’s column How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—If At All? We have our answer to the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
The reactions and feedback from the 21,000+ school leaders globally who have taken the courses. Excerpts from the courses will be shared. Business Development in a World that Never Stops Changing Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes + More Info... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
benchmark somebody's performance for pay? If the benchmark keeps changing, it complicates several things. So there’s a simple advantage that comes from using standard frameworks. Awada: I take a much more practical view. In the last five... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?
Social-proofing the algorithm The allocators “knew that people like them—people with their knowledge base and experience—had had input into how and why these recommendations were being made and had tested the performance of the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Profile
Mark McNeill
best of leaders have areas of weakness. The key is that they are aware of these weaknesses and actively look to others to augment them. These highly self-aware leaders we studied also sought frequent feedback from others about their View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield more-transparent employees. Employees perform better when they can try out new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them... View Details