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17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

Good ethical practices don’t just happen; everyone within a corporation has to continuously work on them. “People are not always comfortable talking about ethics,” Nelson says. “Some have been dismissing... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

identifying areas for improvement. We try to work with them to fix issues.” The SEC can also rely on its hugely effective Whistleblower Program, which has paid more than $1.3... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Aug 2022

From Travel & Hospitality to HBS

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School (HBS) students formerly working in the Travel & Hospitality Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like and how they plan View Details

11 Jun 2015
News

A personal mission to serve veterans

take care of them and their families,” she said. “That experience shaped what led me to HBS.” While later working at PepsiCo, Sullivan was appointed by President Obama to the... View Details

07 May 2015
Blog Post

Career Change: From the Military to Consulting

Class of 2015 after serving for six years as an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army and working in Afghanistan as an aide-de-camp in NATO’s anticorruption task force. Dan spent much of his time at HBS exploring different industries, and he... View Details

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

and tools; (2) working prototypes over excessive documentation; (3) respond to change rather than follow a plan; and (4) customer collaboration over rigid contracts. "To paraphrase Sun Tzu, true victory... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

01 Apr 2001
News

Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews

experience here even more effective and more powerful,” Dean Kim B. Clark observed at the dedication. “We are enormously grateful to the Spanglers.” For his part, Spangler thanked the thousands of people who had View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

29 Mar 2018
News

Why it pays to be a rebel talent at the office

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

December 2014
Article

Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information Processing Failures

By: M. C. Schippers, A. C. Edmondson and M. A. West

This article proposes that team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes—can function as an antidote to team-level biases and errors in decision making. We build on prior work conceptualizing teams as information-processing... View Details

Keywords: Team Reflexivity; Team Information-processesing Failures; Team Regulatory Processes; Team Learning; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management

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08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

elite business opportunities, what important factors influenced access, and what obstacles still remain. Q: What are you working on now? A: The HBS Leadership Initiative's Great American Business Leaders Database was the foundation for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

type of widespread and growing interest in climate change mitigation that Congressman Donald S. Beyer of Virginia has been hoping to see. The co-chair of the New Democrat Coalition’s Climate Change Task Force, Beyer has made the... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

07 Jul 2023
Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

ability) should be a priority. Diversity cannot stop at hiring, however; effective collaboration, along with employee retention and growth, are the true goals. To achieve these ends, leaders must create work... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Jun 2019
News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

02 Dec 2019
News

A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding

work for Corning Glass Works’ international division, and while many new recruits chose sites in Europe, he picked Brazil. “What I’ve learned in life is that you don’t have to be the best at anything, you... View Details

18 Jul 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains

Keywords: by Andrea R. Hugill, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel; Manufacturing

06 May 2015
News

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

often fail to take into account the complete value of the customers they are trying to retain. "What's missing from traditional methods is that they focus only on a customer's likelihood View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

14 Apr 2016
News

Are You Too Stressed to Be Productive? Or Not Stressed Enough?

07 Nov 2014
News

In partnership to support a mission

finishing in the top 10 percent of nonprofits and foundations over the last 10 years, with annualized returns of 10.3 percent rate of return through December 2013. “We come in every day excited about how we’re investing the endowment for the portfolio that supports the... View Details

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