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- 10 Jan 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Miguel McKelvey Build the ‘Culture Operating System’ at WeWork?
Keywords: Re: Jeffrey F. Rayport
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
consumer. The system needs to be redesigned so that each participant is motivated to increase value, measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. This excerpt discusses how healthcare providers can shift to a value-based model. An interview with Professor Porter... View Details
- August 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
PalmSource 2005
By: David B. Yoffie and Barbara Mack
PalmSource is facing stiff competition from handheld, wireless handheld, and smart phone vendors in 2005. In addition, changes in leadership and corporate structure have altered its relationship with its leading customer--PalmOne. Although Palm renews its license with... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy; Alliances; Software; Market Participation; Wireless Technology; Trends; Working Conditions; Change Management; Information Technology Industry; United States
Yoffie, David B., and Barbara Mack. "PalmSource 2005." Harvard Business School Case 706-420, August 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
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Health Plans - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details
- 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.
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
so important. And that's one of the reasons we really need to improve the ability of people with mental health conditions to get back to work quickly and back to school quickly because it can have such a... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- July 1997 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Allentown Materials Corporation: The Electronic Products Division (A)
By: Michael Beer
A division of Allentown Materials Corp. has financial and organizational problems. Conflict and lack of coordination exist between functional groups. Employees do not have a sense of direction, and morale is low. The cause of these problems is found in a change in... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Employees; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Electronics Industry
Beer, Michael. "Allentown Materials Corporation: The Electronic Products Division (A)." Harvard Business School Case 498-023, July 1997. (Revised December 1997.)
- November 2007
- Supplement
Differences at Work: Sam (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Sam (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-054 Sam receives an informal apology from Human Resources which leaves Sam feeling unsatisfied as it is not an official company response. Sam leaves the company for unrelated reasons shortly thereafter but still... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Human Resources; Social Psychology; Conflict and Resolution; Resignation and Termination; Employees; Policy
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Sam (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-054, November 2007.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Japan Crisis
The HBS Alumni Web site facilitated information-sharing regarding alumni and conditions in Japan following that country’s March earthquake and tsunami. In addition, the MBA Classes of 2005–2012 launched an online relief effort to accept... View Details
Keywords: disaster relief
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the general profile of an HBS TDABC pilot site? A: Although exceptions are possible, generally pilot sites working with HBS have five key characteristics. These are: an ability to measure outcomes; a focus on a strategically important... View Details
- 29 Nov 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
How Will Gamers and Investors Respond to Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
to work remotely, often because their home conditions aren’t ideal, or maybe they just feel too excluded or lost. And the rest could go either way. It’s a pattern that is consistent across many countries,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
students at the student-organized Leadership and Ethics Forum last March. Under Reich's review was a labor inspector's ruling that a batboy for the minor-league Savannah Cardinals be removed from his dream job because of laws prohibiting children under 16 from View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Fall 2016
- Article
The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring
By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party monitors to inspect and assess regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators.... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Compliance; Compliance Policies; Conflict Of Interest; Independent Third Party; Inspection; Audit Quality; Auditor; Audit; Environment; Safety; Conflict of Interests; Working Conditions; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Accounting Audits
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring." Administrative & Regulatory Law News 42, no. 1 (Fall 2016): 22–25.
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Does Your Company Need a Chief Medical Officer?
By: Tsedal Neeley
With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging but businesses trying to remain operational, organizations now have a life or death role to play in protecting the health of employees, customers, and the public. That means they need a new executive in the C-suite: a chief... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Health; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Working Conditions
Neeley, Tsedal. "Does Your Company Need a Chief Medical Officer?" Harvard Business Review (website) (October 1, 2020).
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
the benefit of racial diversity alone, done right, pays off not just in a better company, but a more productive one. In new research that focuses specifically on racial diversity, Ely said they found measurable performance benefits when View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Kaelin Goulet
moment of extreme income inequality, when the "have-nots" suffered disproportionately because of the actions of the "haves." Maybe it was working to develop savings instruments for lower-income communities during an... View Details
Stanley C. Allyn
As leader of National Cash Register, Allyn was an ardent supporter of first-class working conditions for employees and a strong believer in corporate citizenship for his company. By 1947, Allyn had tripled... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
Elizabeth E. Boit
specialized in the production of women’s undergarments that were eventually sold by Lord & Taylor department stores. Boit was considered a maverick in improving the working conditions for her mostly... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel