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  • 22 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Why You Are Unhappy at Work

feeling. What can be done to improve the office environment? Research by Harvard Business School professors suggests these problems are not only common—but solvable. Here are some of our most insightful stories about unmotivated employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Blog Post

Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020

motivates employees and how that can be communicated in your recruiting process. Learn more strategies to “get to yes” based on a recent HBS research study focused on what matters most to students when evaluating job offers. Goal: Build a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Charged Up

driven by the automotive industry, followed by smart grid stabilization solutions that provide “fill-in” power when customer demand outstrips supply. Given the technology’s potential applications and finite employee resources, the case... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; batteries; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Short Takes

interdependencies." Looking Out for Number One The tension between the desire to maintain cordial relations with others and the need to act in one's own self-interest affects all human relations. This conflict is particularly apparent in the workplace, where View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • October 2024
  • Article

Racial Inequality in Organizations: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

By: Sanaz Mobasseri, William A. Kahn and Robin J. Ely
This paper uses systems psychodynamic concepts to develop theory about the persistence of racial inequality in U.S. organizations and to inform an approach for disrupting it. We treat White men as the dominant group and Black people as the archetypal subordinate group... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Culture; Gender; Power and Influence; Employees; Attitudes
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  • 31 Mar 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

carry out their responsibility to represent the best interests of investors, who will?—James Heskett But Dr. Leslie Levy suggests that before we jump to conclusions, perhaps more information is needed. In particular, we should isolate the returns to various types of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

unemployment rate. Not only will this training program serve as a pipeline for industry-trained employees for the businesses located at The Hatchery, but it will also provide a path for a culinary career to young people who lack positive... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

assets are, how much protection each merits, and who's responsible for protecting them. Define the appropriate use of IT resources. All companies have policies explaining the appropriate use of resources. For example, employees know what... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 2010
  • Article

Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States

By: Shasha Han, Tait D. Shanafelt, Christine A. Sinsky, Karim M. Awad, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Lynne C. Fiscus, Mickey Trockel and Joel Goh
Background: Although physician burnout is associated with negative clinical and organizational outcomes, its economic costs are poorly understood. As a result, leaders in health care cannot properly assess the financial benefits of initiatives to remediate... View Details
Keywords: Physicians; Burnout; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Employees; Cost; Programs; Policy; Health Industry
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Does Public Ownership and Accountability Increase Diversity? Evidence from IPOs

By: Rembrand Koning and John-Paul Ferguson
Does public ownership improve employment diversity? Organizational researchers theorize that increased transparency to regulators and the public should lead firms to conform to legal and social norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status... View Details
Keywords: IPO; Initial Public Offering; Employees; Diversity; Gender; Race; Entrepreneurship; United States
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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Action Plan: Just Breathe

Health Organization. Whil currently works with nearly 250 companies (including HBS) in 100 countries to offer short, daily online training sessions that give employees the tools they need to manage their emotional health. Most popular are... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 14 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

responsibility of fostering other women, starting with her executive team. The first step was sharing her plan with employees and listening to their concerns. The response she received at Princeton Review and at PresenceLearning was... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Haier had, but they were not the supervisors of microenterprises. His goal was to tear down the walls between the organization, shortening the time the company took to respond to users’ needs, with the ultimate goal of “zero distance” between View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jan 2013
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers

Crisis It was the Valentine's Day from hell for JetBlue employees and more than 130,000 customers. Under bad weather, JetBlue fliers were trapped on the runway at JFK for hours, many ultimately delayed by days. How did the airline make it... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In the decades since, layoffs have... View Details
Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information
  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

Executive Education programs. With the COVID-19 pandemic transforming our lives at every level, a growing number of students and former students have sought my advice about how to lead in a time of great uncertainty and unprecedented View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Access & Use Baker Library | Baker Library

and less than half time or temporary employees Students or collaborators not affiliated with HBS Exceptions may apply. Please consult library staff ahead of time for assistance. Harvard Library Proxy Access Form Still need help? Our... View Details
  • Web

2+2 Program | MBA

and technology. Employees within these companies engage with customers, create products and services, and manage staff.) Entrepreneurship (including founding an organization or joining an early-stage start-up.) Technically-demanding roles... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant by Michel Anteby (Princeton University Press) Employees know that not every workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks... View Details