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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Hill, who expects the case to be taught in Marketing and Organizational Behavior courses as well as in design schools. “Most of our change-management cases focus on a CEO or senior leader, not a middle manager, and few consider how to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
organizational culture. Gaida in Moscow: Striving to strike a balance in the multicultural corporate environment. As the best international companies exhibit similarities in certain standards and practices, managers within these firms,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
found that in Asia, the prevalent organizational culture varies among countries. "While we had previously seen that Japanese firms, for instance, typified the clan-like culture... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
managers would probably admit to being better at some aspects of their jobs than others, but to be clear, our research is aimed at the organizational level. And in that context, the idea of tradeoffs is nothing new. Peter Drucker and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
we like former MIT professor Edgar H. Schein’s iconic framework, which loosely divides organizational culture into artifacts, behaviors, and shared basic assumptions. As Schein argues persuasively, to get... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Stuart Wins Award
HBS professor Toby Stuart, an expert in the field of organizational psychology, has won the 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. The medal, which includes a $50,000 cash award, is given... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
over the world. My sample includes CEOs of large companies, board members, political figures, Olympic athletes, writers, and television personalities, among others. About 10 percent are men. I understand you're also considering the issue of women and success on an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
not-so-pretty picture of a frustrating and baffling decline in performance by the varsity boat at the United States Military Academy. Polzer, whose teaching and research focus on organizational behavior, leadership, and teams, sees many... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
early years, it was primarily women students agitating for equality, and they accomplished a lot. But in more recent decades, the School itself really bought in and accelerated change. Now we are mobilizing men in the effort. If we combine that with the right View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
experiences: identity groups (i.e., race, cultural background, gender, age) and organization groups (defined by shared task roles and hierarchical position). From psychoana-lytic theory, the authors draw on elements that particularly help... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
values of their managers and the organizational culture they create. In their working paper, "Chinese Corporate Culture, Market Orientation, Innovation, and Firm Performance," HBS professor Rohit DeshpandŽ... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
Ina Coleman (MBA 1986) found her professional calling by empowering others to take action for gender equality, inclusion, and diversity in their work environments. An organizational development consultant at Sirenia Partners, Coleman... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
biotech industry. At HBS, Higgins currently teaches Self-Assessment and Career Development in the MBA curriculum and Strategic Human Resource Management in the Executive Education Program. What is a career imprint? Organizational career... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
emerging technologies to innovate and create differentiated customer experiences, people in organizations have to work differently, Hill says. Corporations are finding that digital transformation often demands culture change and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
span more languages, geographies, and cultures than ever, requiring workers to communicate effectively to deliver results. I wanted to understand how a radical language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
and to work reliably and effectively, they were willing to do that. How did the change in culture benefit the company? These organizational changes, which were instituted around the company as a whole,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
with its star’s interests and goals? What if an organizational change prevents stars from undertaking the type of assignments they most enjoy? What if the nature of the firm’s culture and leadership is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Press) Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his 1996 book, Leading Change, Professor Emeritus Kotter revealed... View Details