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January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
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Lexon Corp. (A)

A general manager at Lexon Computer Corp. must decide whether interception and surveillance of employees' e-mail is acceptable company practice, and whether to follow the advice of his computer operations manager who wants to fire the person who complained that the... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Computer Industry

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01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

into a book, How Will You Measure Your Life? The following excerpt, adapted for the Bulletin by Allworth, presents a fresh look at what it means to have “the right stuff” at work and draws a parallel to good parenting. Helping your... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

Career Coach

Warren Radtke

been a small business owner. Work Experience: General Electric, Right Management Consultants, Interim Executive assignments in Human Resources/Talent Management; Director of a nonprofit urban grant making... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Social Enterprise

Portrait Project

Shahar Ziv

“I want to beat up everyone who speaks English!” As a 3-year-old freshly transplanted to the US, my frustrations with not knowing the language were palpable. Watching from behind an invisible barrier as others played in the schoolyard... View Details

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

Portrait Project

Nick Rosenbaum

I sit at my father’s bedroom window watching showers of fluffy cottonwood seeds. Every May, they blanket the Minnesota ground like late spring snow. Life pours down. Inside, my father is dying in bed, kidneys ravaged by cancer. Together,... View Details

05 Feb 2016
News

The Wheel of the World

contains close to 20,000 items). “I realized that I was more interested in the ideas expressed in the mechanisms than in owning the physical objects,” he says. “Time is a central element of the human experience, which, understandably,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Portrait Project

Lindsay Jurist-Rosner

be living. I love the feeling of floating, feeling weightless, achieving the impossible, opening up a new path of human discovery. I strive to find this same floating-like sensation in my awake life. "Let us all try to live so as to... View Details

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Why Pursue a PHD at Harvard Business School

Pursuing a PhD at Harvard Business School (HBS) provides you with unique opportunities and resources, including guaranteed funding, top tier support for teaching and writing, collaboration opportunities with faculty at HBS and departments across the university, and... View Details

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

otter push its nose against the glass, with the kid’s own nose right there on the other side. It gives me hope that I will see it become more and more a force for improving the relationship between humans... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

productivity. “What managers were seeing wasn't real. It was a show being put on for an audience” What's more, in a curious phenomenon dubbed the Transparency Paradox, he finds that watching your employees less closely at work might yield... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

John Stuart Mill, philosophers have wrestled with the age-old questions autonomous vehicles are now raising—in new and urgent ways—for businesses and their leaders. “And by genuine ethical decisions, I mean decisions about the rights of... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) (courtesy Young Hee Yoo) Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) (courtesy Young Hee Yoo) Once relegated to the back office, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2005
News

A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

River. The people were watching a German shepherd dog out in the water, in a hole in the ice, struggling to get some traction to get up onto solid ice. Fred and I continued on our way to I cannot recall where, and when we returned it was... View Details

Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
Case

Lexon Corp. (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine

Lexon Corp. lawyers must decide how to respond to two lawsuits challenging the company's interception of electronic mail on privacy grounds. They must also formulate a company policy on e-mail. One suit was filed by an employee dismissed from her job after asking that... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Computer Industry; California

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22 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52978 July 2017 Business and Human Rights Journal Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold By: Hsieh,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Arturo Alvarez Demalde

I want to transcend individual success; I want to create and share success with others. Watching a sunset on the beach with my wife, celebrating a new birth with my family, being part of a wining team, closing the View Details

06 Oct 2016
News

“You Could Be Dead Any Second”

to exchange the Westerners for prisoners, Quin and the others were used as a human wall while their captors exchanged fire with the Yemeni army. “It seemed impossible that we could survive,” Quin told the Bulletin in 2002. But the moment... View Details

13 Jun 2014
Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is expected to attract the attention of 3.2 billion people worldwide. During one month, 32 teams will vie for the trophy of best football (a.k.a. soccer) team in the world. With 64 matches and assuming that 3.2 billion people View Details

Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports

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