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- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
symbolic power of their actions and the strength of the signals they send when they make decisions about the formation and structure of work teams in their organizations. Learning From Failure Often, when an organization suffers a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
hired. The reason: He said the headscarf she wore as a symbol of modesty in her Muslim faith clashed with the store’s dress code. “No one had ever told me that I could not wear a headscarf and sell clothing,” Elauf is quoted as saying in... View Details
- 22 Jun 2022
- Book
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
individuals, and my writing on this topic, is my model of implicit and symbolic intelligence. Each of us, at any given moment, has the capacity to experience the whole of our life. Right now, as you sit here, you have what psychologist... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
that we're all doing it together at the same time,” explains Norton. “The psychological element is where it gets that symbolic feeling. It feels good to do this in the specific way that we do it. And if we don't do it the way we do it, we... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
in 2015 (ticker symbol RACE). Meanwhile, the automotive industry has been shifting through its biggest changes in decades, with companies scrambling to keep up with the pace of innovation—including drivetrain electrification, wireless... View Details
- 23 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Could Bring Globalization Down?
cables to Germany, after war broke out in 1914. The Lusitania (which was sunk on May 7, 1915) is simply a good symbol for the end of this first age because so much had previously depended on safe navigation between New York and Europe. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
strove to create a brand that symbolized style and elegance, he got his first order by smashing a bottle of his perfume on the floor of a prominent Parisian department store, in a successful gambit to get customers to smell it. He created... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era. There remained many restrictions on the flow of capital, trade,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first word a symbol of old-world erudition and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Loman are familiar names to many Americans. Why do you think the salesman has become the symbol of American business? A: Salesmen have always held a special place in American culture. This was true from the earliest days of the republic,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
symbol of their masculinity or femininity, and the incursion of the other gender into the brand threatens that," explains Avery, who spent a decade managing brands for Gillette, Braun, Samuel Adams, and AT&T before pursuing her... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
personal lives, but they often need the help of well-managed social institutions to succeed. Leaders have several structural devices they can use to promote this balance. For example, they can balance financial and symbolic rewards for... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
and other GM executives placed a series of important bets on what American consumers wanted (different makes, models and prices; cars that were status symbols and identity holders as well as transportation sources) and they did so with... View Details
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
then sell this to the consumer. If you look at vinyl right now, it’s a very small segment of the market, but it has a very important, symbolic role. The vinyl record is an extension of the craft of making music, another way to connect... View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It's no wonder that advertisers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
night. Unlike the routine habits or obligations people feel they must get done, relationship rituals are pleasurable experiences that hold significance, acting as symbolically meaningful signs of a solid and happy partnership. Couples who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation). Since 2004, the yellow Livestrong bracelets on the wrists of his supporters had become a ubiquitous symbol of hope and determination. When Armstrong chose to break the rules of professional... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
in competitive organizations to being one of the only ones in your team or organization with your identity.” That said, choosing to be a team’s token—a member who’s held up superficially as a symbol of diversity—can be isolating and hurt... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
are taking short-term pay cuts largely to show solidarity with their employees. "A lot of it is symbolic ,” Itay Goldstein of The Wharton School commented. “When we come into a crisis like the one we have right now—where it's a difficult... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
recently learned from such phenomena as the weak link between executive compensation and firm performance, and the impotence of so many corporate boards, American managers have become quite adept at decoupling the formal structures and View Details