Workplace Culture - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America’s economy, shaped the country’s development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

(vs. 50% subsidy: 3.9%, p<.0001; vs. hybrid: 3.7%, p<.0001). Among enrollees, there were no differences among the four groups in attendance or weight loss. Conclusion: This pragmatic trial, conducted in a real-world workplace... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

Work cultures will be stressed anyway, as the continuing COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty puts people on edge. Employee loyalty has waned and resistance grown. Leaders could suffer empathy fatigue and become less understanding, but leaders... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit exposed the tech world’s toxic culture and its homogeneity. Though she lost her suit, Pao... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

distribution, pooled intra-organizational coordination, and agency relationships—result in a trade-off between centralized and dispersed growth strategies. Which strategy prevails depends on how policy—enabling branching interacts with technological, economic, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

capitalism to another is a normal historical process.—Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin Management's inward focus allowed it to succeed beyond anyone's dreams. But that success further insulated managers from the society they were supposed to serve. The elite hierarchy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

has the game of negotiation. COVID-19, Zoom, political polarization, the online economy, increasing economic globalization, and greater workplace diversity—all have transformed the who, what, where, and how of negotiation. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

their customers, and what they do to sustain their brand value.” HBSWANY Tackles #MeToo Taking their cue from the sweeping #MeToo movement, the HBS Women’s Association of Greater New York (HBSWANY) recently addressed the issue of View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

seems to be driving the movement to find greater meaning in work. In his book Spirited Leading and Learning, Vaill describes many of the economic and cultural stresses he believes have spurred this trend, among them the destabilizing of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

book shows why such "predictable surprises" put us all at risk, and shows how we can understand, anticipate, and prevent them before disaster strikes. There is a universal fear factor surrounding this subject: that society and the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant Author:Michel Anteby Publication:Princeton University Press, 2008 Publisher's Abstract Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

inability to do so for just as long. How can someone overcome that cultural inheritance? It starts with managing one’s time at work. Technology allows work to encroach relentlessly on employees’ personal lives. If a person fails to put... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Web

2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

where she teaches in the Management & Business and International Affairs Programs. Her past research has focused on workplace resistance, technological change and diversity management. She is currently working in the areas of... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), financial advisor to governments, Paris, France Use due diligence in assessing the "people" environment in which you will work: the culture of the company, the team you will join, and the seniors you... View Details

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of masculine-image concerns and to behave instead in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

prevented with some forethought. It includes interviews with high-profile entrepreneurs about their own mistakes. It also covers gender biases, cultural challenges, and when to employ agents to negotiate on your behalf. There Will Be No... View Details

Web

2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

everyday racism and gendered racism , she also pioneered in developing theory on social and cultural cloning . The now classical 1984 (in Dutch) Alledaags Racisme (English version, Everyday Racism , 1990 has been republished in 2018.... View Details

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details