Workplace Practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

in the past. He’s so fed up with these notions that he has written a book titled Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time. It would be easy to write off his book as a rant based on a non-scientific set of personal... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

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Podcast - HBS Online

members Amy Edmondson, Anthony Mayo, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Nancy Koehn. Read the Transcript Previous Episodes Season 2 Bonus Content (Part 1): AI & Navigating the Future of the Workplace 27 JAN 2025 | The Parlor Room In this special... View Details

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

platform, that often cannibalize each other, and that are simple, elegant, and easy to use. It borrows good ideas from organizations such as Xerox and Gap but practices secrecy with its own ideas. Its strengths and interests reflect its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

Leadership Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:In Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, edited by D. Rhode and B. Kellerman. Jossey-Bass (forthcoming) Abstract In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

stored, used, and collaborated on information in eight digital systems and their knowledge management practice was, in their words, “a nightmare.” The team’s leadership acknowledged these problems but didn’t have the capacity to work... View Details

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

workplace negotiation and the way academics study negotiation are overwhelmingly masculine. But despite evidence that the game is rigged against them, women still believe they'd be better negotiators if they only tried harder. Scholars... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Jun 2013
News

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 Jun 2012
News

Made in the USA

the integrity of his business and has successfully defended Riverdale against allegations of workplace violations launched by OSHA and the EPA. His epic battle with the EPA, which began with the agency’s armed raid on the factory in 1997,... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

style game of asking yes-or-no questions about a group of faces pictured, half white and half African-American. The authors suggest that people's discomfort and avoidance of referring to race imposes costs in terms of information gathering and effective View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

10 Feb 2021
Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

anti-racism to the workplace is critical because racism is not simply people being unkind to one another. As Manso-Brown explains “Racism is around us all the time without us doing anything. It is a system created for economic, political,... View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

virtually any metropolitan center these days, unsecured “hot spots” can be found and exploited. It is, he says, an example of “the twin–headed dilemma of new technology — introducing better productivity and novelty into the workplace... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

scenarios to ensure everyone on the disaster team knows their duties during a crisis. In particular, the team will need primary and backup responsibilities, and guidelines on decision-making. These areas of accountability will help keep the business running. Process:... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

immoral and unjust, but it’s also bad for business. Just Work is the solution. Scott’s new book reveals a practical framework for both respecting everyone’s individuality and collaborating effectively. This is the essential guide leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2023
News

Just Breathe

Just as you might take ibuprofen to ease a fever, mindfulness can help settle awareness in the midst of challenging situations—whether at home, at work, or in any setting where people of color experience racism. That’s the premise of Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

competitive advantage. (photograph by Brooks Kraft) Warming to Social Ecology David Thomas also notes a heightened awareness among leading firms regarding the "social ecology" surrounding the corporation. "Part of what shapes the dynamics of the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2012
News

Ideas in Action

often, those who have experienced vast success in the public realm look back and regret not spending more time with family and friends. They wish they’d actually gone on that cruise of the Greek islands, or taken more vacations in general, for that matter. But the pull... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Lavoie (MBA 1993) (Crown Business) In How Remarkable Women Lead, Barsh described Centered Leadership's five capabilities and the research that underpins it. In this book, Barsh and Lavoie provide a practical field guide for implementing... View Details

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons... View Details