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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
2018, the organization announced a new ethics policy, so Culver Humphrey came forward with her story once again. Leadership rebuffed her a second time, so she met with the Oregonian. Team members were stunned by what they read. For many, including the NGO’s View Details
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
Frei notes. Employee training relies on a management approach summed up by Luiza Helena as "assisted freedom," with a focus on self-development, open communication, and participation. For most... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
death. Following the second OPM round one month later, Barco was named president by her mother. "I don't manage our employees in the autocratic way that my father did," she notes, "and yet my style, which is... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
George Harad has worked to erase former boundaries between the CEO's office and the company's front lines. He responds daily to dozens of electronic mail messages received from employees throughout the company. "The ease of communication... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- August 2008
- Case
Sloan & Harrison: Non-Equity Partner Discontent
By: Boris Groysberg and Eliot Sherman
The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was dealing with some discontent among its junior non-equity partners. These partners were concerned with the transparency of the advancement process, their ability to position themselves as both leaders within the firm and rainmakers,... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Management Style; Performance; Work-Life Balance; Legal Services Industry
Groysberg, Boris, and Eliot Sherman. "Sloan & Harrison: Non-Equity Partner Discontent." Harvard Business School Case 409-033, August 2008.
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
What managers must take away from this book is that the jobs in their organization will only be fulfilling to their employees if they provide opportunities to reasonably satisfy all four drives. Jobs must be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
collaboration rather than command and control as their basis for interaction.. “Over the long term, organizations filled with empowered employees who collaborate to serve customers will consistently outperform hierarchical organizations”... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
Managers need to hear from the people in the organization who are closest to the work, closest to the customers—that is, from those who are in the best position to recognize problems and have new ideas. Q: What kind of work environment... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- July 2002 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Crucial Conversations
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayraghavan
Todd McKenna, a third-year associate at an investment banking firm, confronts his boss. His boss had told him he would be the top paid associate at the firm, and McKenna finds out that this isn't true. He approaches his boss to find out why he was lied to. View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Investment Banking; Executive Compensation; Employee Relationship Management; Rank and Position; Banking Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayraghavan. "Crucial Conversations." Harvard Business School Case 403-027, July 2002. (Revised November 2002.)
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight games. Within a matter of weeks, Sox general manager Theo Epstein had launched one of the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
change. Employee surveys, 360-degree feedback, interviews by external consultants, and even relatively honest one-to-one conversations between a key manager and the CEO (remember the courageous discussion... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
the workers’ allegiance. She does so in part by meeting one-on-one with every employee and introducing innovations such as pairing a shift worker with a manager in coleadership roles. “This is an unusual... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-023.pdf Employee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Supplement
Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)
By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers
At the conclusion of the (A) case, Jennifer Trosper needed to decide whether or not to throw her support behind the training and outreach represented by the ROV-E program to build small rovers like the ones used on the surface of Mars by NASA JPL. The (B) case... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Aerospace Industry; United States
Leonard, Dorothy, and Christopher Myers. "Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 917-405, September 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- May–June 2013
- Article
Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains? Response: Promoting Political Mobilization
By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these codes of conduct also create possibilities for political mobilization that can improve labor conditions more broadly. View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Auditing; Labor Relations; Occupational Safety; Environmental Operations; Environmental Regulation; Employees; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; China; Bangladesh; India; Honduras; Nicaragua; Pakistan; Guatemala; Malaysia; Viet Nam
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains? Response: Promoting Political Mobilization." Boston Review 38, no. 3 (May–June 2013).
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
settings right, you can design a job in which a talented individual can successfully execute your company's strategy. But if you get the settings wrong, it will be difficult for any employee to be effective. I'll look at each span in... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- February 2008 (Revised January 2009)
- Background Note
Offshoring Day in BGIE and Strategy
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Troy Smith
Describes a set of activities in which students will participate before and during a day of classes on offshoring. The day's classes will examine the implications of offshoring for policy makers, business leaders, and workers. View Details
Rivkin, Jan W., and Troy Smith. "Offshoring Day in BGIE and Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 708-492, February 2008. (Revised January 2009.)
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
Blues A shockingly low 25 percent of employees feel connection to their company's mission. Bill George discusses fixes to rebuild purpose in their work. How Small Wins Unleash Creativity The most powerful tool View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne