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  • 28 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

organizational policies are the infrastructure of meeting employees’ four drives, managers implement those policies and can do so in ways that increase or decrease engagement. Subcultures within... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

organizational policies are the infrastructure of meeting employees’ four drives, managers implement those policies and can do so in ways that increase or decrease engagement. Subcultures within... View Details
  • June 2010
  • Article

Change for Change's Sake

By: Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam and Ranjay Gulati
No one disputes that firms have to make organizational changes when the business environment demands them. But the idea that a firm might want change for its own sake often provokes skepticism. Why inflict all that pain if you don't have to? That is a dangerous... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Creativity; Power and Influence; Adaptation
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  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

  Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The literature on location choices has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

transformations. The book became the change bible for managers worldwide. Now, in A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shines the spotlight on the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

overhaul of how policymakers, educators, and employers devise, construct, and manage career pathways, which are the routes aspiring workers take as they graduate from education... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • July 1999 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

Corbin-Pacific

By: John A. Davis and Christina L. Darwall
Reviews the history of Mike Corbin's entrepreneurial career and describes in detail the successful organization he has created. Explores his management philosophy and leadership. Explores the usefulness of continuing family involvement in this business. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Teams; Success; Family Ownership; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry
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  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Building Sustainable Cities

By: John D. Macomber
By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; City
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  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

moral of this story is not how to do crisis management faster and better in a lightning-fast digital world. It’s that even the nimblest and deftest crisis View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Nov 2021
  • News

Great Resignation? Tech Workers Try a Great Reconsideration Instead

  • November 2017
  • Supplement

Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (B)

By: Francesca Gino, Katherine DeCelles and Olivia Hull
Supplement to HBS No. 918-001. The case describes the inventive approaches to retail crime prevention that Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac’s Convenience Stores, implemented between 2007 and 2017. View Details
Keywords: Public Relations; Community Relations; Change Management; Leading Change; Training; Knowledge Dissemination; Working Conditions; Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement; Legal Liability; Business and Community Relations; Retail Industry; Canada
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  • 18 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

Coming to HBS after Military Service

the most rewarding aspects of RC year.  I am not an HBS admissions mistake Even though there are many technical business concepts that my classmates know more about than I do, I am still able to offer a unique perspective based on my experiences as a Naval Officer.... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

he said, “The very act of trying to attain gender equality portends to assume that is a positive goal. My concern is not equality but quality. Man or woman, we as individuals and organizations need to rip away all the barriers that lie... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • July 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Case

Echoing Green

By: Julie Battilana, Thomas J. DeLong and James Weber
This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009. Echoing Green is a fellowship program that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Financial Crisis; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Social Enterprise
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  • 2019
  • Article

When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

By: Stephen Turban, Dan Wu and Letian Zhang
Does diversity make a company more productive? Many say yes—some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Others say no—conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Diversity; Performance; Performance Productivity
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  • September 2020
  • Case

Walmart Health: Scaling During a Pandemic

By: Robert S. Huckman, Yoonjin Min and Marissa Thiel
Amidst the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Marcus Obsborne, Vice President for Health and Wellness Transformation at Walmart was planning to scale its new health care clinic business, Walmart Health, to additional locations in Georgia and beyond.... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Health; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Arkansas; Georgia (state, US); Texas
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  • 08 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years

friends. As a member of the committee, I was asked to write a monthly column highlighting management research findings by HBS faculty members and colleagues at other schools. It occurred to me that the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

Consistency By: Barak-Corren, Netta, Chia-Jung Tsay, Fiery Cushman, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We study how people reconcile conflicting moral intuitions by juxtaposing two versions of classic moral problems:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Program

Agribusiness Seminar

and manage risks arising from climate change and environmental pressures Assess strategies for entering and competing international markets... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
  • 14 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

causes us to buy a product, not what's correlated with it. We realized that the causal mechanism behind a purchase is, 'Oh, I've got a job to be done.' And it turns out that it's really effective in allowing a company to build products... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage