Workplace - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

that make the workplace feel ”just a tiny bit more psychologically safe: I don’t know. I need help. I made a mistake. I’m sorry.” How often have you heard your boss utter those words in the recent past? If rarely, is this about to change?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

A company's internal deliberations and changing beliefs about women in the workplace over the course of two decades, particularly about their role as leaders, is the subject of a recent paper that traces how fundamental societal views can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

workplace negotiation and the way academics study negotiation are overwhelmingly masculine. But despite evidence that the game is rigged against them, women still believe they'd be better negotiators if they only tried harder. Scholars... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down. Coupled with a growing race to the bottom in wages and benefits, this workplace erosion of trust could negatively affect... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

“when it’s lost, much is lost with it.” You Might Also Like: Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer To Change Your Company's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

"Unfortunately, this is more the exception than the norm. Far too many try to enforce a Western style upon the local culture or, even worse, adopt the most convenient, and often the worst, of both cultures." Global Standards For The View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 518-002 NatureSweet This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

they should be,” says Minor, who hopes to delve further into how to effectively shift beliefs in future research. TRUST IN THE WORKPLACE The unduly pessimistic predictions in the political survey sparked Minor’s curiosity about whether... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

management. On the other hand, workplace productivity savings could be the key. According to another alumnus, any outlay "is petty change" to employers compared to the savings of keeping healthy people. Though wide-ranging, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

workplace for evidence of discrimination. "We know racism and sexism exist. The question is what can we do about it? Does evaluating the evaluators change discrimination? Does the fact that I know I'm being watched change my... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

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

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

company's entire value chain? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/618045-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-127 Managing Religion in the Workplace: Abercrombie & Fitch and Masterpiece Cakeshop Challenges related to managing religion in the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private codes governing View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

issues that have bombarded Americans before. The chapter underlines how the past cannot be separated from the present. Working on it I was struck by how timely some of the challenges and individuals and opportunities of the past are today. I also enjoyed writing the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

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

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