Building A Culture Of Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

governance structures and norms in place, businesses could help put people, including their workers, and the planet back at their core. Through a series of essays, the book exposes the fault lines between... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

are the long-term memory of the corporate brain." Most respondents, in one way or another and without mentioning it explicitly, suggested strong linkages between the health View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

building a network of mentors to support and advise them. To uncover the processes that promote the development and advancement of minority... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

society through a cultural change that had solidarity as its core value. In our sample alliances, this motivation was associated with a specific company type: family-owned... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

change, NATO, immigration, and energy in direct opposition to what they need to build their companies. As a result, they are stepping up to take the lead on vital global issues. Business leaders have View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

of the Tobin Project, a nonprofit research institute focused on catalyzing scholarship on important governmental problems. “The question is how to do that. My teacher, the Nobel economist James Tobin, told... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

problem—and everyone wants to talk about it and share experiences and solutions. Bringing together a diverse group of professionals creates a powerful learning environment... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Collis and Akiko Kanno “Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses. As the company becomes majority... View Details

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

change, it could build a stronger and better culture for the future within its own organization. "Young people are increasingly worried about these problems" View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

making up 40 percent of the Class of 2014. But a new case study shows that there's still a ways to go. “We want them to grapple with what it... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

US. A "commons" fosters the process-oriented innovation that in turn contributes to the vitality of the industrial sector and the health View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

are ignoring the engine that drives it." Gerald Nanninga laments that instead of going to economic war with committed volunteers, " unfortunately, we are building a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

provided but to augment and expand their offerings. Telemedicine is a terrific example of this. Many health care providers have already moved to virtual visits and ramped... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

the culture into coherence with a strategy focused on driving performance is a tough but necessary challenge, and must be supported by changes in the structures and systems... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

terms of costs." Going Forward Were the results due to unique circumstances at HP? The answer is yes and no, Beer and Cannon wrote. "HP's culture is one that historically placed more emphasis on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? lays out the thesis that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing wants and needs of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

correctness, free speech, or affirmative action. It is relating to people as authentic human beings, not as representatives of a group or class. Great harm is done when groups View Details