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13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

ProductivityDecreasing workplace transparency can increase productivity. When Privacy Protection Notices BackfireIt seems counterintuitive, but website privacy protection notices appear to discourage some shoppers from buying. Beware the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

heart attack. Of those, between 1,500 to 3,000 fewer women may have died if their doctor had been female, Laura Huang, a study co-author and Harvard Business School associate professor, said in an interview. The research mirrors bias found in studies elsewhere, like in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

company in the world. Co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick embodied the company, with a hard-charging attitude embedded in the company's workplace culture, which allowed it to successfully take on the entrenched taxi industry. Uber looked... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Cuddy, operating a relatively large device inspires more assertive behavior than working on a small one. Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Ethan S. Bernstein explains why decreasing workplace transparency can increase... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

with ideas, solutions, information, and energy that feed into their decision-making processes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed my own students convince senior executives to improve labor practices in the supply chain and workplace that end... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

In a US presidential election year with more twists and turns than most in recent memory, many of the issues on the ballot impact business. And keeping politics in the workplace respectful is forefront on managers’ minds as a divided... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

thing we’re going to do? As opposed to: They love us, oops, now they don’t; uh-oh, what should we do? So cherishing and being proactive versus reactive. Q: Suetonius’s “The Life of Caligula” is assigned alongside an August 2015 New York Times article on Amazon’s View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

Leadership Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:In Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, edited by D. Rhode and B. Kellerman. Jossey-Bass (forthcoming) Abstract In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

resources. But for other types of tasks, cultural heterogeneity had no effect on creative performance. The research is relevant to business practitioners because creating a multicultural workplace is often touted as a strategy to foster... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

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

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

generous, we may not be conveying that.” Pettiness in the workplace Whether people perceive certain actions as petty depends primarily on the expectations of the parties in a given situation. “When we’re doing a business deal with our... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

the authentic leaders in my research —both male and female—strive to achieve. It is regrettable that such important issues as workplace culture, creating environments that do not discriminate or stereotype groups of people, or ensuring... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

solving a problem with varying states of interaction with teammates: zero interaction with peers, intermittent interaction, or constant interaction. “Once upon a time, work in real workplaces was intermittent,” Bernstein says. You would... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

should have. Yet, this is not the norm for most people, especially in the informal and domestic economy. Workplaces remain largely hierarchical, most of them more authoritarian than democratic. As the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

and mistakes and abbreviations the CEO uses,” Choudhury says. “What that tells us, generally, is that at least technologically, we can create a writing bot for any one of us.” Illustrations by Ariana Cohen-Halberstam using images generated in Midjourney Generative AI... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

Foundation. About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: valentinrussanov] Related Reading Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

New South Wales. Local Construction of a Global Standard: Foreign Share Ownership and Workplace Gender Diversity in Japan explains that historically, the Japanese corporate structure has made it difficult for women to enter into... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

Black: Career Development in the New Economy," said newly minted MBAs should be able to learn quickly, handle problems, and build relationships with coworkers over workplace divisions. The panelists also advised students to know the... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

Workplaces are divided by political party Using voter registration data and information from business research firm L2, one study revealed “substantial partisan segregation” at the highest levels of executives at S&P 1500 firms, with... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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