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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Discrimination: Joint versus Separate Decision Making Corinne Moss-Racusin , Skidmore College Testing Interventions to Reduce Gender Bias in STEM Fields Emilio Castilla , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management Achieving Meritocracy in the... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

reader to imagine a workplace where everyone speaks openly about their weaknesses and are committed to overcoming them, where colleagues help each other become more efficient and less disruptive by speaking the truth about what detracts... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

climate, customer orientation, and innovation. "Corporate culture was perceived as the prevailing set of shared values held by a firm's managers," Deshpandé explains, "qualities such as loyalty and tradition. We defined climate as the... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

17 Dec 2015
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Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society

initiative’s faculty chair, who is also the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for culture and community. “One of our main goals is to ground discussions about gender in rigorous research so... View Details

11 Oct 2022
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On Balance

to do the same work as her. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of gender discrimination,” she observes. The knowledge that women across Australia have endured similar—and often far... View Details

Keywords: April White

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

First, it is critical that employers committed to diversity and inclusion assess their progress to date. What does the staff compositional data look like when broken out by race, ethnicity, gender, and other personal and cultural... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief

presents the latest breakthroughs in strategic planning from some of the most preeminent names in the field. Harvard Business Review on Culture and Change. This diverse series of articles provides insights into the confusing and often... View Details

Keywords: Harvard Business School Press; books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

ourselves from. And while I’m sure some workplaces have felt that way, there’s more to the story. When we reimagine culture as something malleable, as something ever in flux and formation, it gives us room... View Details

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

toward greater workplace equality. Our title recalls the colloquialism "walking the talk," a familiar statement that suggests moving from discourse to action is a shift from "mere" speech toward "real" change. But we know that... View Details

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between 06–07 APR 2017 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Apr 06 Thursday, April 06, 2017 Panel: Interrogating Authenticity Herminia Ibarra , INSEAD Just Be Your Selves: Authenticity, Identity,... View Details

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

workplace transparency can increase productivity. Do Creative Types Need To Be Managed Differently? Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs In her new Harvard Business School course, Creative... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

in companies are often stopped in their tracks by subtle forms of gender bias, which are deeply ingrained in workplace culture and society at large. These biases can interfere with the dual requirements of... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

different kinds of organizations. “There continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically.” That hallway encounter evolved into a Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the Optimal View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook

confided to [Facebook CEO Mark] Zuckerberg that she felt as though her workplace friendships were melting away. One night before bed, she wrote a 1,700-word explanation of what she was going through and how she hoped people would interact... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the factory. Maybe we should change... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

says, came in adapting the culture of the workplace to accept the autistic employees. This was done through autism-awareness training sessions for all employees, and management training for workers engaging... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

resources. But for other types of tasks, cultural heterogeneity had no effect on creative performance. The research is relevant to business practitioners because creating a multicultural workplace is often... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe

executives would find out that I was meditating,” Burton admits. Today, he wants everyone to know about the workplace benefits of meditation and other stress-management techniques. Six years ago, Burton founded Whil, a digital training... View Details