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  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

to influence the culture of the bank? He also wondered what other measures might be effective to get employees with diverse backgrounds to work together. How could he create a learning organization at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned

students, their searches involved a greater level of complexity, perhaps because of specific location requirements or partner concerns. Some students want to focus on culture and work environment, and found... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • May–June 2019
  • Article

Cross-Silo Leadership

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Tiziana Casciaro and Sujin Jang
Today the most promising innovation and business opportunities require collaboration among functions, offices, and organizations. To realize them, companies must break down silos and get people working together across boundaries. But that’s a challenge for many... View Details
Keywords: Cross-functional Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Groups and Teams; Employees; Attitudes
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  • 22 Jan 2019
  • Interview

Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Curt Nickisch
Amy Edmondson, professor at Harvard Business School, first identified the concept of psychological safety in work teams in 1999. Since then, she has observed how companies with a trusting workplace perform better. Psychological safety isn’t about being nice, she says.... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Safety; Trust; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness
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  • March 2018 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Alaska Airlines: Empowering Frontline Workers to Make It Right

By: Ranjay Gulati, Andrew O'Connell and Caroline de Lacvivier
This case documents the ongoing efforts by Alaska Airlines to enhance its efforts to become more customer centric by empowering its employees using a service framework. It explores how the airline starts with a completely hands-off approach to empowerment in which... View Details
Keywords: Employee Empowerment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Employees; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Integration; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

you’ve developed over your career and applying them to a new situation in itself can be a very enlightening experience. Who do you want to work with? How important is the size and culture of the team you’ll... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • December 2022
  • Case

Ed Catmull: Lessons from Leading Pixar Animation Studios

By: Francesca Gino, Linda Hill, Gary Pisano and Ruth Page
This stand-alone multimedia case follows Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar, after he was vice president at Lucasfilm. Catmull was honored with five Academy Awards®, including an Oscar of Lifetime Achievement for his technical contributions and leadership in computer... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Organizational Culture; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • November 2008
  • Article

Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets

By: Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill and Jay A. Conger
"This war for talent is like nothing we've ever seen before," write the authors, who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development. Recently they interviewed executives at more than 20 global companies to identify strategies for attracting... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Recruitment; Diversity; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • March 2008
  • Article

Is Yours a Learning Organization?

By: David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson and Francesca Gino
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An organization with a strong learning culture faces the unpredictable deftly.... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Surveys; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture
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  • 11 Oct 2018
  • News

Baseball’s Billy Beane Shows Companies the Power of Data

  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

The U.S. Job Search for International Students

alumni working in the U.S. are often very eager to help students from their same home country or region with the U.S. job search, from networking and to sourcing an opportunity in a company to understanding an organization’s View Details
  • March 22, 2012
  • Article

Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create 'Moments'

By: Tsedal Neeley
Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. In turn, these differences generate disruptions to team cohesion and top... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes
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  • Research Summary

Management of Succession

By: Joseph L. Bower
An outgrowth of the work on the corporate office has been a more focused study on the management of succession. This work identified the reasons why the management of CEO succession has proved so difficult for so many companies as well as the way the best companies are... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

concerns to the company’s management, including in regard to corporate culture and the ethical behavior of Zantech’s competition, is provided. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52849 In Pursuit of Everyday... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson experienced her first big-stakes professional failure when she was just starting out in her academic career, some 30 years ago, after a decade working in engineering and consulting. Little... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

    Amy C. Edmondson

    Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details

    Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry; professional services; consulting
    • March 2023
    • Case

    Between Two Minds: The Staglin Family

    By: Lauren Cohen, Ronnie Stangler and Grace Headinger
    Garen Staglin, Founder and Chairman of One Mind, reflected on his life’s work in brain health. As he contemplated stepping down in the next few years, he weighed how to pass along this legacy to his son, Brandon Staglin, the impetus behind and next generation of the... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Well-being; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry
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    • Profile

    Ann Chao

    forward to in your career? I look forward to being a bridge between people and cultures - business and creative, the US and Asia. My dream since childhood has been to write stories that inspire people, and I love to see the spark in... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media
    • 09 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

    interactions that matter most are not with the people you work with closely every day, such as people in your home department. Instead, the real influence comes from colleagues whose intellectual pursuits are vastly different from your... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 16 Aug 2012
    • News

    Clean desks kill creativity