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    Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

    High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
    • Web

    IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design | Information Technology

    Featured Case IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design The multimedia case takes viewers behind the scenes of a human-centered design company, IDEO, as they embrace the shifting demands of their global client... View Details
    • 16 Jan 2020
    • News

    5 Ways Office Design Helps Your Company Navigate Change

    • Web

    Managing the Future of Work

    skills jobs is evolving much faster than educators’ abilities to change curriculum. Podcast Designing Equitable Workplaces 02 JUL 2025 | MANAGING THE FUTURE OF WORK The Harvard Kennedy School's Iris Bohnet... View Details
    • 01 May 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

    SUMMING UP Is Management the Missing Ingredient in Melding Organization Culture and Remote Work? Those who have experienced remote work are largely vocal supporters of the notion. Its success is dependent, on the one hand, on an effective... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 02 May 2025
    • Blog Post

    How to Work with Search Firms

    Executive search firms can be powerful allies in a senior-level job search. While they can play a vital role in helping you find your next role, it’s important to understand how they operate and how best to work with them. Want to talk to... View Details
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry

    By: Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin

    Much academic work asserts a relationship between the design of a complex system and the manner in which this system evolves over time. In particular, designs which are modular in nature are argued to be more "evolvable," in that these designs facilitate making... View Details

    Keywords: Product Design; Adaptation; Software; Information Technology Industry
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    • 16 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

    In 2015, preliminary results of a groundbreaking study found that the daughters of employed mothers often perform better in their eventual careers than the daughters of stay-at-home moms. Now the full study has been released, and it brings even more good news for the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
    • Case

    Levels: The Remote, Asynchronous, Deep Work Management System

    By: Joseph B. Fuller and George Gonzalez
    Levels is a highly innovative startup in the health care space. They intend to revolutionize health by linking behavior—eating, exercise, sleeping, etc.—to changes in metabolism. They believe metabolic health can be managed through careful monitoring of changes in... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Business Startups; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Technology Industry; United States
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    • 21 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

    circular design to be embedded within its design, engineering, and manufacturing processes so that pumps can be separated and broken down into subcomponents. To enable easier recycling, the company embeds sustainable design, and their... View Details
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    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Satisfaction (23) Customer Value and Value Chain (12) Customers (104) Customization and Personalization (3) Debt Securities (1) Decision Choices and Conditions (43) Decision Making (240) Decisions (10) Demand and Consumers (223) Demography (9) View Details
    • September 2011
    • Article

    Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs

    By: Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra and Deborah Kolb
    We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to standard leadership... View Details
    Keywords: Programs; Prejudice and Bias; Leadership Development; Identity; Organizational Culture; Gender
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    • 05 Apr 2021
    • News

    Help Wanted: Director of remote work

    • 06 Mar 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

    Summing Up Who Will Save Us From Our Work Habits? We have a problem in the workplace. Some of it is being forced upon us by forces in society. Some of it is of our own making. But we face increasing challenges in managing our View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2017
    • Other Article

    Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

    By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom
    The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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    • March 2023
    • Case

    Woven Planet - Designing Software for the Car of the Future

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Catherine Piner
    Founded in 2021, Woven Planet Holdings—a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation—was developing Arene, an automotive software platform consisting of an operating system, development and simulation tools, and a cloud-based service that could store and analyze vehicle... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Automated Driving; Innovation; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Safety; Product Launch; Product; Auto Industry; Technology Industry
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    • 27 Aug 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

    expedient work around? The nurses overwhelmingly chose to work around a problem, because that is what allows them to get their very demanding jobs done in the most efficient way. Tucker's future research... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Guttry
    • March 2010 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management

    By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
    This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component. This is relevant to not only health care in Zambia, but to NGO and public sector workers who are both motivated... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
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    • November 2021 (Revised May 2025)
    • Teaching Plan

    Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A), (B), and (C)

    By: Amy C. Edmondson
    This teaching plan is designed to be used in conjunction with the case “Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A) and (B)” HBS product numbers 621076 and 621077 to help faculty deepen students’ comprehension of business issues and energize classroom discussion. View Details
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    • 17 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Global Brands Work

    Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Ford has finally woken up to what Toyota knew a long time... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto