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- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
2012) Abstract Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs, and others arguing that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001) Amy C. Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley & Sons, 2019)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
participation: uncertainty about the value of the IP being offered, value dissipating effects of competition for the knowledge, and costs associated with ex-post lawsuits claiming expropriation. Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
conditions in its factories. Many countries, for example, sign international labor treaties promising to uphold certain workplace standards. Labor observers, however, have long wondered whether those treaties represent better working... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
more than 20 years, the devastation in meatpacking is just one example of how lax regulation can make a grave situation deadly. The lack of safety guidance from the US Occupational Health and Safety... View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Leadership Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:In Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, edited by D. Rhode and B. Kellerman. Jossey-Bass (forthcoming) Abstract In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
In a US presidential election year with more twists and turns than most in recent memory, many of the issues on the ballot impact business. And keeping politics in the workplace respectful is forefront on managers’ minds as a divided... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
workplaces to better assure safe working conditions. The case includes a dataset and exercise. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618019 Harvard Business School Case 618-064 Improving Worker View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://hbr.org/product/cancer-screening-in-japan-market-research-and-segmentation/an/514057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-034 Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety in Bangladesh (A) On April 24, 2013, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
long. She could not help but think the American Dream, or even just the chance to live a dignified life, was out of reach no matter how early she left for work or how late she stayed. Because she had been in charge of workers’ safety at a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
Source: FangXiaNuo The Harvey Weinstein horror show has brought attention to previously unspoken abuses of male power to sexually harass and suppress women. Prominent women are joining the #MeToo moment, feeling safety in numbers as they... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
Are Influential Corporate sustainability rankings are an influential tool that guides consumers' spending decisions, helps jobseekers select employers, improves workplace environment and morale, and informs socially-conscious investments... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne