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25 Aug 2022
News

Action Plan: Fired Up

morning one of Traeger’s big rigs was set on fire in the parking lot, apparently in protest of his decision to outsource shipping to UPS. “The culture was so toxic, I knew it... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand

31 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

Organization, argues that fear is not a useful tool in a leader’s toolkit when it comes to managing interpersonal relationships in a workplace. Best known for her studies View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

women’s health in the United States, which has the worst rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation. Women of color are four times... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

June 2010
Article

The China Rules: A Practical Guide for CEOs Managing Multinational Corporations in the People's Republic

By: Lynn S. Paine

To achieve growth and profitability in the world's third-largest economy, multinationals need strong leadership--but China is tough on top executives. Pulsating with opportunity, China attracts foreigners, yet HR professionals continue to rank it as one of the most... View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership; Management Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; China

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22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

Kaiser [Permanente's] Dr. [Kim] Adcock, it is not enough just to know that a particular physician is making more than the acceptable number of errors [in misread x-rays]. Unless deeper analysis View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

Source: guvendemir Courage is the quality that distinguishes great leaders from excellent managers. Over the past decade, I have worked with and studied more than 200 CEOs of major companies through board service, consulting, and research... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

capital and an end to predatory lending practices? Organizations lament sky-rocketing health care costs, but why is there such a limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

companies to look at products the way customers do: as a way to get a job done. Are You a Level-Six Leader? (23,834) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6752.html Published: July 6, 2011... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Dec 2021
News

A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni Confront a World of Pandemic Problems Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, HBS alumni across the globe have been stepping up to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

the event examined the operational and cultural obstacles that impede success in fighting poverty. They also considered the impact of business as a poverty alleviator and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

territories. The prospect of Chevron Texaco's multimillion dollar investment in Kazakhstan, for example, is threatened by poverty in that country's rural areas. A World Development Corporation project to... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

of the country’s health care system proved to be a problem that Oishi could not ignore; Platanus and Mediva represent her response. Nineteen years in, they have engineered... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

relationships you build with your classmates and professors. Take that weekend trip with a group of people you may not know so well, participate in that View Details

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

and managers alike face unprecedented obstacles every day. In March and early April, as COVID-19 spread worldwide, a study by Mind Share Partners in partnership with Qualtrics and SAP found that 42 percent View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

25 Mar 2015
News

The Greening of Houston

Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack... View Details

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

Traveling Salesman in American Culture (1995) and my book, Birth of a Salesman (2004). In the past few years, scholars have done a lot View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

team, and through that experience had the opportunity to also share my own personal story at health care conferences and public settings, really advocating for the power of genetic information. I was there... View Details

30 Jan 2018
Blog Post

HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa

were in the middle of their own hustle, each trying to get money to build themselves up. The opportunity to make a meaningful impact is incredibly wide and diverse. It’s often... View Details

20 Jan 2017
News

Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News

solutions journalism and describes how his organization is training journalists in its techniques. “I am president of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is a three-year-old independent nonprofit... View Details

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