workplace environment - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

been as strong of a person entering the workforce as I was. —Annette Friskopp (MBA 1990), coauthor of Straight Jobs, Gay Lives: Gay and Lesbian Professionals, the Harvard Business School, and the American Workplace (1995) with Sharon... View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

the Practical Relevance of Research, forthcoming in Production and Operations Management. “This is my soapbox message to academics: be more relevant,” says Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and faculty chair of the HBS Business and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

Sep 2014
Survey

An Economy Doing Half Its Job

As a start, business leaders must take action to address the structural problems that linger for the nation, even as the cyclical recovery continues. The survey delves into three elements of the business environment that play a key role... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Alumni Books

reader to imagine a workplace where everyone speaks openly about their weaknesses and are committed to overcoming them, where colleagues help each other become more efficient and less disruptive by speaking the truth about what detracts... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

markets will provide incentives for companies to behave responsibly and companies will exhibit those behaviors because they'll have lower costs if they do. But that will depend on organizations like SASB, and to what extent they're successful in creating a better... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

01 Sep 2007
News

Busy…Very Busy

conversations, file cabinets opening and closing, and other office goings-on. Aside from conveying over the phone the aura of a successful enterprise, his virtual, aural workplace has another benefit, Freund believes. “A lot of people... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

01 Oct 1997
News

Short Takes

motivated and characterized successful firms for decades, in the environmental arena and elsewhere. Thus, he concludes, "The way to situate business in the context of the natural environment is to integrate the natural View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Ink

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015 Raje breaks C-suite workplaces into four categories: space used to enhance personal energy (think Zen gardens, cloth journals, and pictures of the family pup); space to create organizational... View Details

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

For the last quarter century, many fought hard to overcome gender discrimination in the workplace by raising awareness, strengthening antidiscrimination policies, and encouraging more women to enter the corporate world. At first blush,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

Student-Profile

Dafna Bearson

reasons: “I love the interdisciplinary academic environment at HBS,” she said. “I am in classes alongside peers studying public policy, education, public health, and beyond. We each bring a unique perspective to the classroom, which... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

Black: Career Development in the New Economy," said newly minted MBAs should be able to learn quickly, handle problems, and build relationships with coworkers over workplace divisions. The panelists also advised students to know the... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

01 Dec 2020
News

Tried and Tested

Assistant Professors Zoë Cullen and Katherine Coffman; image by John Ritter Assistant Professors Katherine Coffman and Zoë Cullen came up as economists in largely male-dominated environments where, during their years of graduate studies... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

about group-based discrimination and disparities. She aims to leverage her research to bolster understanding of and willingness to address inequality. Current Climate Fellows Matteo Gasparini DPhil (PhD) candidate at University of Oxford's Smith School for Enterprise... View Details

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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

cultural and moral understanding of their responsibilities as educated women in our American society." 10 Images: 005a, 056b, 101 Expanding Opportunities in the Workplace By the early 1950s, enrollment in the Management Training Program... View Details

16 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

Help people understand what is going to happen, who they'll meet, what you’re looking for, and how you’re evaluating candidates. This creates an environment where people can understand what is expected and potentially ask for... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

immediate partners, the participants in the programs, their superiors, and others. It is a problem when expectations soar too high. "A hundred-percent participation rate in your [HIV/AIDS] program may be unrealistic, given the state of affairs in the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

depicting workplace interactions. In both situations, emotions were either ignored or acknowledged. Participants consistently rated people who commented about negative emotions as more trustworthy, giving them ratings that were about 20... View Details