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HBS - The year in Review

Attendance Attendance Spring MBA 3,825 Fall MBA 1,916 Executive Education 275 TOTAL 6,016 Service Milestone Event Celebrated On May 4, HBS continued its 10-year tradition of celebrating and honoring recent retirees and employees marking... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

What Sequoia Capital Can Teach Leaders About Sustaining Long-Term Growth Re: Jo Tango & Christina M. Wallace More Articles Harvard Business Publishing May 14, 2024 Article One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings By: Timothy... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

When COVID-19 first sent office employees home last year, many managers filled their teams’ calendars with online check-ins, drop-ins, and updates to make up for the loss of spontaneous interactions—often sinking morale and efficiency.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Moral Muscle

By: Sandra J. Sucher

Can we get better at moral decision making? How is the capacity to exercise moral leadership developed? One answer to these questions is the notion of “moral muscle,” which is a combination of moral awareness (the ability to recognize situations that can be... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making
  • January 2022 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

OneTen: One Million Careers for Black Talent (A)

By: Boris Groysberg, V. Kasturi Rangan, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
The OneTen case study examines the nonprofit organization’s origin story. Its founding team includes a roster of corporate superstars—Ken Chenault (former CEO of American Express), Ken Frazier (former CEO of Merck), Charles Phillips (chair of Infor), Ginni Rometty... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Demographics; Ethics; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Society; Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • March 2013
  • Teaching Note

Automating the Paris Subway (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Michel Anteby and Ayn Cavicchi
In 2001, the head of the Paris Subway reflected on how to transform Line 1 into a driverless line without triggering a social conflict. After the shock of the 2000 Notre Dame de Lorette subway accident, in which a train derailed and caused 25 injuries in a Paris subway... View Details
Keywords: Labor Relations; Unions; Organizational Behavior; Change; Information Technology; Rail Transportation; Labor Unions; Infrastructure; Change Management; Employment; Organizations; Labor and Management Relations; Transportation Industry; Rail Industry; Paris
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  • 2010
  • Article

Multi-Rater Assessment of Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations

By: Giovanni B. Moneta, Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth Schatzel and Steve J. Kramer
This study examined the convergent and construct validity of ratings of individual creative contributions in a team context. A sample of 201 employees and supervisors, working on 26 team projects, completed the NEO-Five Factor Inventory and rated themselves and their... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Groups and Teams; Research; Performance Evaluation; Gender; Projects
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  • October 2006 (Revised February 2010)
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Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell
As of 2006, Microsoft is finding that its dominant position in client and server operating systems is under attack from Linux. While Linux has only 3% of the worldwide installed base of PC operating systems, it had captured 20% of the server market by the end of 2005... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Open Source Distribution; Competitive Strategy; Applications and Software; Value; Technology Industry
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  • 20 Aug 2020
  • News

How has the pandemic changed working lives?

  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

says Harvard Business School professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, was their dedication to responding to the needs of employees and the community first, all with the moral purpose of serving the common good. Less important for these companies, he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

performance, and the bind is likely to apply even beyond gender—to anyone who feels threatened by a negative stereotype.” Feldberg’s research also shows how women manage their image for lower-ranked employees. Usually, research focuses on how View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 29 Apr 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

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What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

are especially effective at encouraging change. Avoid being complacent. Even the organizations most dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion still have some work to do. Be on the lookout for gender disparities in how employees are... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

evaluating business leaders, most people judge them primarily by results: profitability, return to shareholders, innovation and so on. This is the more rational measure of effectiveness. An organization's overall health will generally have a greater effect on an... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 29 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration

Keywords: by Mark Mortensen & Tsedal Neeley
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

underlying reason why: Leaders often get stuck in echo chambers that merely reinforce their own ideas, says Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer. Meanwhile, lower-level employees are often fully aware of the problems that plague... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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About - Race, Gender & Equity

such as ethnicity, community and family. She examines consequences such as employee engagement and commitment to work, career success and satisfaction, quality of interpersonal and intergroup relations, and performance. In recent work,... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

redundant communication, coupled with an escalating sense of urgency, is integral to communicating because it gets the job done. New research shows that getting employees to listen up and deliver isn't so different. “Those without power... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

and customers. At the same time, the new approach provides more accurate cost-driver rates by allowing unit times to be estimated even for complex, specialized transactions. Estimating the cost per time unit of capacity. Instead of surveying View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson