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Educators

01 Sep 2013
News

A Focus on You

numbers don't tell the whole story. So, we need you to do your part to make this information better. And that starts with each of you updating your profile. We can't encourage you strongly enough. YOUR VIEW: View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

2020
Book

Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies... View Details

Keywords: Leaders; Advanced Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Community; Change Leadership; Innovation; Problem Solving; Cross-sector Collaboration; Institutional Change; Leadership; Change; Leading Change; Communication; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community

May 2021
Article

Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review

By: Chanan Reitblat, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh and Boris Gershman

Context:
In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details

Keywords: Value-based Healthcare; Integrated Practice Units; Outcome Measurement; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Strategy; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

whose campus occupies 26 buildings surrounded by 800 acres of forest on the northern side of an Appalachian mountain ridge. As he walks the grounds, Marietta points to evidence... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

19 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Jul 2018
News

How a Passion for Travel Built a $43 Million Fashion Brand

Photo via Forbes Photo via Forbes Leigh Rawdon (MBA 2001) grew up outside Memphis, Tennessee, listening to stories an adventurous aunt told of travels abroad. At 16, she got her first passport, traveling to Paris with View Details

January 2016
Supplement

Open Innovation at Fujitsu (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This add-on case study reveals the location decision that was made in front of the challenge presented in case study #616-034. The launch of the Open Innovation Gateway (OIG) was a success. Fujitsu's management team now had to figure out the best way to continue to... View Details

Keywords: Open Innovation; Collaboration; Culture Change; Inter-organizational Relationships; Teaming; Maker Movement; Nascent Industries; Change Management; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; United States; Sunnyvale

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

for managers to view nostalgia as having value within their organizations. However, a growing body of research reveals that it’s an important psychological resource that helps individuals cope with life’s... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

transitioning from producing boutique products for a few customers to more mainstream products for a wider customer base, and wondered how to reorganize her company’s team structure accordingly. Another... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Jun 2025
News

Hitting A High Note

As the Atlanta Opera's general and artistic director, Tomer Zvulun has big ambitions for the organization, imagining a “new model of performing arts." Photo credit: Melissa Golden When Tomer Zvulun (PLDA 21, 2021) joined the Atlanta Opera as the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr.... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

they are really engaged. It was an interesting cultural difference." Because all four companies involved in phase 3 were multinationals, the surveys had to be translated from English into nine additional languages. "That was... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

May 6, 2020
Article

We Shouldn't Wait for a Breakthrough in the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Gary P. Pisano

The ultimate solutions to the COVID-19 crisis may be big breakthroughs in building massive test and trace capacity and developing vaccines and drug remedies. But in the meantime, we should not ignore the potential cumulative impact of the many small things we already... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Strategy; Leadership