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- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
(Danielle); “Winning in this age requires more cross-disciplinary thinking... Women, in my experience, are better thought integrators.” (Allison S. A. Graves); “Many studies suggest that women tend to score higher on tests of social... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- January 2011 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
An Intern's Dilemma
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble
An HBS student is asked to misrepresent himself during the course of his summer internship by his employer in order to obtain data from industry competitors. View Details
Keywords: Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Conflict; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Ethics; Knowledge Acquisition; Organizational Culture; Employees; Power and Influence
Sucher, Sandra J., and Matthew Preble. "An Intern's Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 611-041, January 2011. (Revised August 2013.)
- Profile
Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
Australia, but he seized an opportunity to change the culture of ConocoPhillips itself, becoming the co-founder of the company's first LGBT employee group. Over the course of four years, Sergio and his colleagues moved ConocoPhillips'... View Details
- March 2023
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-069. On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen and locked up company data. The extortionists demanded 75 bitcoins (worth... View Details
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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Francesca Gino Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (in press) Abstract Dishonest behavior can have various psychological... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
said, there are certain deadlines that must be met with the goal of keeping the majority of the group focused on the same topics to maximize social interactions. Details on individual course or program requirements are communicated to... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- Blog Post
Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA
was also traveling) without her. Find your way to be social. Full disclosure, I have never been a party person and I was even less so with a three-month-old when school started, and I had a whole new school schedule to figure out. Nevertheless, I am a very View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
social distancing measures to keep the operations running and their employees safe. In addition to the use of PPE and temperature checks, PetFoodCo applied social distancing by... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
of employee time" for it. Edward Hare proposes that organizations might "understand who their deep thinkers are and then make absolutely certain that they're in a position to take advantage of their rather unique... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
founder took on the government, says Takeuchi. “He basically disobeyed a government mandate and said we’re entering anyway He always had a fighting spirit with others, and with the government.” 6. Encourage the development of practical wisdom in others, especially... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
quickly to produce and air new advertising creative that tapped into the rapidly changing zeitgeist. The result, the Retail Heroes campaign, featured CEO McMillon Zooming in remotely from home to thank the one million Walmart front line View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
Knitting together a workforce with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and other demographic differences is challenging even for experienced managers, who must socialize those employees into the organization and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management. Another developing area of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
experience per se—but for those interests, ambitions, and activities he was most passionate about. Looking back, Kloeblen spoke passionately about a social networking group he had led at IBM. “It was a network of innovators, mostly inside... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
'They Feel Good,' yet the employees were wearing Reeboks," she recounts. "So I established new rules—don't bring a shoe in for a line review unless it feels good to the consumer, meaning comfortable, and feels good to shareholders,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
never mind narcissism and all the disorders of greed We can't fix the world with economic systems too big a job all we tiny ones have is our love and conscience." Etienne Douaze maintains that the concept is alive and well in Germany's Mittelstand: " (an) ethos of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
frequently also, there is less time for making important decisions—not infrequently, they have to act in real time. With modern IT (with real time, Internet search, and social networks), few decisions can be made in secret, and even fewer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
startup organization for the thousands of employees who join a fledgling company and do the day-to-day work required to grow it into something of value. Entering StartUpLand is a practical, step-by-step guide that provides an insider's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne