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- 2025
- Working Paper
Evaluations Amid Measurement Error: Determining the Optimal Timing for Workplace Interventions
By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo, Iavor I. Bojinov and Fiammetta Menchetti
Researchers have embraced factorial experiments to simultaneously evaluate multiple treatments, each with different levels. Typically, in large-scale factorial experiments, the primary objective is identifying the treatment with the largest causal effect, especially... View Details
Keywords: Factorial Designs; Fisher Randomizations; Rank Estimators; Employer Interventions; Causal Inference; Mathematical Methods; Performance Improvement
DosSantos DiSorbo, Matthew, Iavor I. Bojinov, and Fiammetta Menchetti. "Evaluations Amid Measurement Error: Determining the Optimal Timing for Workplace Interventions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-075, June 2024. (Revised May 2025.)
- July 1995
- Teaching Note
Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace TN
By: Mary C. Gentile and James I. Cash Jr.
Teaching Note for (9-395-090). View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Conflict Management; Spoken Communication; Employees; Culture; Diversity
- December 2024
- Article
Human Bias in the Oversight of Firms: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations
By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya Pérez Silva
We study the effects of mood as a source of human bias on regulators’ oversight and enforcement decisions. We use weather at facilities at the time of an OSHA inspection to proxy for the OSHA compliance officers’ mood. We find that during periods of good mood due to... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Happiness; Working Conditions; Safety
Heese, Jonas, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, and Andreya Pérez Silva. "Human Bias in the Oversight of Firms: Evidence from Workplace Safety Violations." Review of Accounting Studies 29, no. 4 (December 2024): 3413–3448.
- January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (A)
This case is the first in a three-part series that explores the multifaceted organizational and strategic choices that companies now face as a result of the global AIDS epidemic. Heineken is considering becoming one of the first companies to offer AIDS drugs... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa
Barrett, Diana, and Daniella Ballou. "Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (A)." Harvard Business School Case 303-063, January 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- January–February 2015
- Article
Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence
By: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin
We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either... View Details
Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin. "Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence." Organization Science 26, no. 1 (January–February 2015): 78–98.
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: PeopleImages] Related Reading Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these... View Details
- 1979
- Book
Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and B. A. Stein
Keywords: Working Conditions
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and B. A. Stein. Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
- December 2021
- Teaching Note
Intenseye: Powering Workplace Health and Safety with AI
By: Michael W. Toffel and Youssef Abdel Aal
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 622-037. View Details
- August 2006 (Revised November 2007)
- Background Note
A Framework for Pursuing Diversity in the Workplace
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Brookshire
Assesses the costs and benefits of pursuing diversity and pinpoints the primary barriers to creating diverse workplaces. It also proposes some options for advancing diversity in an organization. View Details
DeLong, Thomas J., and Michael Brookshire. "A Framework for Pursuing Diversity in the Workplace." Harvard Business School Background Note 407-029, August 2006. (Revised November 2007.)
- January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (C)
Third in a three-part series that explores the multifaceted organizational and strategic choices that companies now face as a result of the global AIDS epidemic. Heineken is considering becoming one of the first companies to offer AIDS drugs (antiretroviral therapy) to... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa
Barrett, Diana, and Daniella Ballou. "Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (C)." Harvard Business School Case 303-077, January 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- October 17, 2023
- Article
10 Emotions That Are Undervalued in the Workplace
By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their fourth strategy is about telling a compelling story about the change you need to... View Details
Keywords: Emotions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Leading Change
Frei, Frances X., and Anne Morriss. "10 Emotions That Are Undervalued in the Workplace." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 17, 2023).
- September 2018
- Article
Thoughts on the Workplace as a Masculinity Contest
By: R. Ely and Michael Kimmel
Ely, R., and Michael Kimmel. "Thoughts on the Workplace as a Masculinity Contest." Journal of Social Issues 74, no. 3 (September 2018): 628–634.
- January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (B)
Second in a three-part series that explores the multifaceted organizational and strategic choices that companies now face as a result of the global AIDS epidemic. Heineken is considering becoming one of the first companies to offer AIDS drugs (antiretroviral therapy)... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa
Barrett, Diana, and Daniella Ballou. "Heineken NV: Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa (B)." Harvard Business School Case 303-064, January 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- February 2001
- Teaching Note
Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace TN
Teaching Note for (9-300-013). View Details
- October 18, 2024
- Article
Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes
By: Jazz Croft, Acacia Parks and Ashley Whillans
By 2026, global corporate spending on wellness programs is set to top $94.6 billion, yet anticipated improvements in well-being are not being realized,
and, in fact, mental health needs are continuing to rise around the world. Drawing on a large body of recent... View Details
Croft, Jazz, Acacia Parks, and Ashley Whillans. "Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 18, 2024).
- 2022
- Conference Presentation
Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness
By: Samantha N. Smith, Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Katherine L. Milkman
Competition is prevalent in organizations. For example, people often compete against their colleagues for status and recognition in the workplace or for opportunities for advancement. Workers also compete against others to get hired into organizations in the first... View Details
Smith, Samantha N., Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness." In The Consequences of Competition in Organizations. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Joint Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, 2022.
- January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
- Teaching Note
Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety In Bangladesh (A) and (B)
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
On April 24, 2013 the Rana Plaza factory building collapsed in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Over 1,100 people were killed in the worst industrial accident since the Union Carbide plant gas leak in Bhopal, India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories,... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
Summing Up What Isn't Off Limits When it Comes to Transparency? The discussion of this month's column on corporate transparency to employees made it clear that we have reached a point at which disclosure of pay information in organizations is no longer much of an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- November 2004
- Case
IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace
By: David A. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji
Explores how IBM incorporated diversity into its business strategy, making the case that workforce diversity is critical to marketing its products and services to its customers. In the early 1990s, Ted Childs, vice-president of Workforce Diversity, proposed to CEO Lou... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Diversification; Business Strategy; Integration; Global Strategy; Organizations; Markets; Information Technology Industry; United States
Thomas, David A., and Ayesha Kanji. "IBM's Diversity Strategy: Bridging the Workplace and the Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 405-044, November 2004.