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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
IT consulting company, and my mother was a therapist. I grew up with a real love and understanding of what it takes to build a business brick by brick, as well as a deep curiosity for what makes people tick. At HBS, whenever we had the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global... View Details
- 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
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
investigates the effects of multicultural networks on individuals' creative performance, identifying when this effect arises, as well as underlying mechanisms. Key concepts include: The more your network includes individuals from... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
well as leading thinkers and decision makers, to discuss ways to make the US savings system more secure and inclusive. Ackerley’s group, in partnership with insurers, also announced an innovative investment solution, called LifePath... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
worked with several startups. Both require a good degree of creativity in problem solving and opportunity identification, as well as the creation of action plans and strategies. I still found opportunities to be creative, albeit different... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
culture was familiar, especially for someone coming from a low-income background. Students like him, as well as those who were the first in their families to attend college, often face unique challenges in adjusting to academic,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
rather than holding an already successful organization in its status quo. I have turned around businesses and worked with several startups. Both require a good degree of creativity in problem solving and opportunity identification, as View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
In a US presidential election year with more twists and turns than most in recent memory, many of the issues on the ballot impact business. And keeping politics in the workplace respectful is forefront on managers’ minds as a divided... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
collaboration encouraged by today’s communication tools like Slack and Skype good or bad for finding the best answer? “I don’t want there to be zero communication, but I do think that transparency and communication do have downsides" To find out, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 31 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Bring your authentic self to work: Advice from HBS alumni
The short answer to the question “how can I come out and be out at work?” is that there is no one right answer. Everyone's situation and lived experience is different. At the same time, hearing from others about what has worked well for... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
creates a workplace that is lacking in diversity. Diversity across all facets of the workforce including, but not limited to, race, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation, brings together individuals who each contribute... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500 corporations, and now HBS. Music... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
survive and thrive with the help of these techniques. Talk about the physical toll of racism in the workplace and what that looked like for you. Studies show that discrimination and racism are linked to higher rates of high blood pressure... 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
- Web
Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library
School. Crossroads for Educated Women After World War II, the Training Course in Personnel Administration was renamed the Management Training Program and experienced a brief postwar enrollment boom. The new name reflected a broader scope that included human relations... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
we are willing to contribute ideas in the workplace or try to compete for a promotion,” Coffman says. “If talented women in STEM aren’t confident, they might not even look at those fields in the first place. It’s all about how good we... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
innovations of the last 75 years, as well as some thoughts about the coming decades.* * Total responses from MBAs and Executive Education participants who graduated in or before 1975 and those who graduated between 1976 and 1999 were... View Details
- 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