Workplace - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

were proposed. Paula G commented that "Boards need to become more involved to protect the interests of the owners they must look outside to trusted advisors for compliance." Hughe said, "One way to get compliance is to frame harassment as a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Many male business leaders have the right intentions when it comes to tackling the sticky issue of gender inequality in the workplace. But try as they might to be more sensitive and inclusive with their language, men are quite simply bound to mess up sometimes, said... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

advancement. To ensure gender equity, the authors recommend that managers (1) question the stereotypes behind their practices, (2) consider other factors that might explain the achievement gap, (3) change workplace conditions accordingly,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

Repairing the damage With Uber’s daily management now in the hands of 10 executives—and Kalanick remaining on the board of directors—the company faces immediate challenges: It must fill several high-level vacancies, smooth over relations with its 14,000 employees by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

to this story. Related Reading: The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales Birth of the American Salesman View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

difficult to create good in-house relationships and there were frequent changes of management, respond much as women do—by investing in external networks. Not all but some of their strategies at poorly managed firms resemble the strategies of women. Q: Are you seeing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

research to better understand the drivers and impacts of corporate climate targets. That project is funded by a cluster grant of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard, which seeks to encourage multidisciplinary research. You Might Also Like:... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

place.” None of it helps clean up a workplace mess. ADVERSITY TOOLKIT Managers can soup up resilience in themselves as well as their teams by making a shift in how they size up a challenge. Rather than dwelling on their misfortune,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

and maximizing value within my workplace? But also how do I think about using those tools in negotiating my re-entry to the workplace in terms of talking with my family, my spouse, with my childcare provider? How do I think about... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

fact, this redundant communication works to get projects completed quickly, according to new research by Harvard Business School professor Tsedal B. Neeley and Northwestern University's Paul M. Leonardi and Elizabeth M. Gerber. The Most Powerful View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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 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

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

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

employers on this issue. Much of my research is about the impact of workplace transparency (the observability of employee activities, routines, behaviors, output, and/or performance) on employee productivity and collaboration. So these... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

consensus that embraced international trade and outsourcing while supporting continuous upgrading of workplace skills. In April 2009, the new Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, is balancing short-term responses to a global recession... View Details