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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
Overview Confidence in an organization is more than just a spirit of "We can do it." It is the foundation, systems, and culture involving positive behaviors such as open communication, self-scrutiny, respect, teamwork,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
take the gender bias out of job listings: Simply rewrite them. “Our minds are stubborn beasts that are hard to change, but it’s not hard to de-bias the application process,” says behavioral economist Iris Bohnet, a visiting professor at... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
health information network are expected to be substantial. A RAND Corporation study estimates savings to the U.S. health-care system of up to $162 billion a year by improving medical-care delivery, reducing medical errors and adverse drug reactions, lowering View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Typically, this involves looking closely at the roles and decision rights of various parts of the business, as well as changing the behavior of people at all levels. Public, organization-wide conversations about such fundamental issues... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
create organizations that keep learning. Firms that come up short in this regard, Garvin asserts, may be condemned to repeat mistakes endlessly, fail to adapt to changing conditions, lose employees who are repositories of important... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were... View Details
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Motivation and Incentives - Course Catalog
defined, that motivate employees and others associated with an organization to engage in behaviors that further the organization’s value-creating purpose. The course is useful for students in all career... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
Fargo, the poster child for dysfunctional behaviors in recent months, has an independent board chair.) Employees in need of their jobs have been afraid to report dysfunctional behaviors, even when they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
departure from a traditional, "top-down" management style, Nasser continued. "Every employee must be a teacher, learner, and leader," he said. Later in the day, Professor Myra Hart led a breakout session on the topic of "Start-Up... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
Differences at Work: Will (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
A colleague makes a stereotypical remark about gays that Will, an out gay man, knows to be wrong. He struggles with how to correct the senior colleague. View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Will (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-013, November 2007. (Revised October 2008.)
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
amounted to kickbacks. A suspicious state employee eventually alerted authorities. Kuhse explained that an approach from a friend or respected colleague often is the entrée to a slippery slope. It begins with an apparently insignificant... View Details
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
In light of the outset of the war on terrorism, how does this affect what has been called the war for talent? A book by the same name 1 has recently characterized this as an "endless journey" to address the enduring challenge to provide winning View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
“Unlike when many of us who studied at HBS, today few Japanese corporations offer their employees scholarships to study at business schools,” says club member and event co-organizer Masako Egawa (MBA 1986). “The HBS Japan Fellowship Fund... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and challenge of the work itself and not by external pressures.” — Professor Teresa Amabile, cited in an article noting that her research shows carrots and sticks don’t motivate View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
created an environment in which employees were inspired to express their own ideas—even the half-baked ones. Sitting in her office on the third floor of Morgan Hall on a sunny summer day, Hill is a flurry of creative energy herself. Just... View Details
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
call center staff had experience in extracting repair prices from service shops. “They were willing to have their experienced employees use our scripts, so that was ideal for us to test the effect of consumer price knowledge on seller... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed... View Details