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- 07 Dec 2017
- HBS Seminar
Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 08 Apr 2015
- News
Why and how managers should help workers set boundaries
- 2022
- Chapter
Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research
By: Julie Yen, Julie Battilana and Emilie Aguirre
Though workers face a series of critical challenges in contemporary work organizations, they are often overlooked in conversations about sustainable business. In this chapter, we argue that prioritizing the rights and well-being of workers is a core dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Employees; Well-being; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Social Issues
Yen, Julie, Julie Battilana, and Emilie Aguirre. "Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research." Chap. 11 in Handbook on the Business of Sustainability: The Organization, Implementation, and Practice of Sustainable Growth, edited by Gerard George, Martine R. Haas, Havovi Joshi, Anita M. McGahan, and Paul Tracey, 189–214. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
Editor's note: This is the first of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this first of two articles, Davis discusses leadership models. Part One: Global Norms And The One-leader... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
By: Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake and Douglas Fearing
Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile money agents exchange cash for electronic value... View Details
Balasubramanian, Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing. "Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-109, June 2017. (Presented at INFORMS 2015 and POMS 2016. Finalist and first runner up, Production and Operations Management College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Award.)
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
Desan dive into the evolution of these new historic perspectives. The Fearless OrganizationTo do their best work, people need to feel secure and safe in their workplace, argues Amy C. Edmondson. Rebel Talent Francesca Gino argues that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
over organizations. That power was fueled by both a talent shortage and the ability of tech-aided talent to become more effective working remotely. Technology will continue to enhance remote work. But will the talent shortage continue? Will inflation pull more View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- October 2015 (Revised February 2020)
- Teaching Note
Trouble at Tessei
By: Ethan Bernstein and Ryan Buell
In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen ("bullet") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the... View Details
Keywords: Service Management; Employee Engagement; Employee Motivation; Leadership And Managing People; Quality Improvement; Efficiency; Japan; Operational Transparency; Employee Coordination; Transparency; Leadership; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Employees; Quality; Transportation Industry; Japan
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
world of irrationality. Much of traditional economics becomes outmoded when complex relationships based on often counter-intuitive behaviors are taken into account. Instead of a management philosophy centered around the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Oct 2016
- News
A venture capitalist proves himself as a hedge fund manager
- 09 May 2017
- News
If You Were Lorde’s Manager What Would You Do?
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Companies all over the world have striven for transparency in the workplace, literally tearing down walls in an effort to let managers and employees observe each other. Take, for example, one of the 14 key principles of The Toyota Way,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
stand-alone course. “Practicing managers do not divide their decisions by discipline, so why do we do it as instructors?” Soltes asks. His second recommendation is to cultivate moral humility, rather than moral confidence. “If View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Apple Manager Mystique Tempts Google in Search for Talent: Tech
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
game-changers such as e-mail accounts, intranets, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. "You might expect that advances in information technology would increase the number of people you could View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
diabetes is a public health crisis that needs urgent attention. However flawed, early programs that attempt to manage the disease may at least get more people thinking about serious solutions for their... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
people return to prior patterns of in-office hours, we have to make sure those who are still constrained by the pandemic don’t face additional penalties. Employers and managers who take their employees’... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
what is unique [about him] as an executive is that he is a storyteller and considers himself a filmmaker,” says Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy. “You don’t find that very often. That’s what creative people are always looking for —... View Details
- September 2018
- Article
Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management
By: Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli and Katerina Linos
Although more than 800,000 displaced people arrived in Greece by sea in 2015, fewer than 5 percent applied for asylum in this first country of arrival. Instead, they either traveled northward informally or remained in Greece in legal limbo. The resultant chaotic... View Details
Keywords: Refugees; Governance Compliance; Knowledge Dissemination; Policy; Crisis Management; Communication; Greece
Carlson, Melissa, Laura Jakli, and Katerina Linos. "Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management." International Studies Quarterly 62, no. 3 (September 2018): 671–685.