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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
predicted support for raising the minimum wage, suggesting that attitudes toward inequality may not translate into preferences for redistributive policies. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
effect of boundary spanning contact on boundary spanners' negative attitudes toward their own jobs and organization (e.g., job attractiveness and confidence in the organization). Download the Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
firing trigger. We make every effort to help our employees succeed and achieve excellence. And we have an attitude of gratefulness." He adds: "It's not necessarily any easier to run a company based on spiritual principles, but it... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
more competitive, which is beneficial to society as a whole." The younger generation of alumni sees a new attitude among its peers. "We are more willing to take risks," notes DeRemate's Cepeda. "We see the synergies of globalization and... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
result of such despondency, children are not encouraged to go to school; many fail to attend at all or drop out early. Yet many multinational corporations, while undertaking their regular profit-making activities, have managed to change this View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- March 2023
- Supplement
Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design
By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Supplement 923-034, March 2023.
- July 2020
- Teaching Plan
Girls Who Code
By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Strategy; Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Demographics; Age; Gender; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Leadership Style; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Identity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Education Industry; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
all female leaders must deal with ambivalent reactions rooted in gender stereotypes. Generally, the assertive, dominant behavior typical among leaders tends to be viewed as atypical and unattractive in women. Studies of attitudes toward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
hospital fundraising efforts. An interview with a promising candidate, who is also a digital native, forces her to confront shifting attitudes toward issues of data and privacy across generations against the backdrop of continued... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
consistent with the proposition that employed mothers provide non-traditional gender role models to their children, liberalizing gender attitudes and transmitting life skills for managing competing responsibilities, increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, Managerial Accounting goes further by covering the capabilities and techniques necessary for effective management practice, as well as fostering attitudes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
reduction, there is a long way to go from lowering tax rates to introducing a flat tax in the U.S. or in Western Europe. This would require a change of attitude in countries marked by a substantial history with progressive taxation. To... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
held real estate services firm, regards this relatively recent change in attitude as a paradigm shift. “People now look to real estate as an alternative to other investments,” she says. Perhaps most telling is that large institutional... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
similarly in U.S. and international samples. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53447 November–December 2017 Harvard Business Review The Board's New Innovation Imperative: Directors Need to Rethink Their Roles and Their View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Bowes adapted its approach to employee health amid rising health care costs, shifting employer attitudes towards health benefits and a rapidly changing policy environment. By 2008, the firm was widely regarded as an innovator in employee... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
those attitudes change that dramatically? There wasn't anything else. Ours was the only big campaign out there. Now, interestingly, there were a couple of areas of Georgia where we didn't run any ads. We didn't have enough money. They... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design
By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Case 923-026, March 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, and weight constraints that could not be met using traditional approaches to spacecraft development. As one manager... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
firing and take lower profits, thereby gaining the advantage when the economy turns around. Below is a short section from my forthcoming book, High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage, which describes the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace