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- 26 Oct 2011
- News
On Top, Down Under
also notable for its activity in the community, “investing millions of dollars, and with nearly one-third of employees volunteering their time to help out with community-based organizations,” the Australian reported. In 2010, for the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
challenges and opportunities, and to tell them why you are taking the actions you must. Downsizing is a painful last resort. We try to do it as much as possible by attrition, but if we do have to let employees go, we believe it's our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
other companies and executives that went remote during the pandemic and are still scared to ask their employees to come back to the office. They don’t want to fight with their employees and risk losing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
people.” Twenty years ago, Frances Frei was not the globally revered management guru she has become. This was before she helped transform the culture at HBS to close the performance gap between female and male students, resulting in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
small, 35-person Workplace Gender Equality Agency not only as a resource for business, but also as an advocate for societal change. Its current initiatives include a toolkit for companies that want to perform a gender-pay-gap audit and a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
members of a work team believe that well-intentioned efforts, regardless of outcome, will neither be seen negatively nor lead to punishment or rejection? New research by HBS assistant professor Amy C. Edmondson shows that such teams are more able to learn - and,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
of internationalizing firms’ policies that require employees of diverse skill sets to adopt English as their business language. For the past four years, with extensive support from the School’s research centers in Asia, Europe, and Latin... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
departure from a traditional, "top-down" management style, Nasser continued. "Every employee must be a teacher, learner, and leader," he said. Later in the day, Professor Myra Hart led a breakout session on the topic of "Start-Up... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
socialism succeeds and fails, and to grasp its evolution and potential horizons, we must do more than read manifestos. We must attend to history. Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies By Ranjay Gulati, Paul R.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders focus on two things: a new approach... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Art by James Yang/Getty Images Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it’s been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in sustaining innovation - even radical innovation. If their... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
changed for them when the world went remote. They’ve since hired six employees who are clustered in Boston but working remotely. As the team expands, the founders wonder whether they should build a remote-first company or plan for an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
them know where you want to go, they’ll get you there. “This business is just like any other business,” he continues. “Treat your customers and employees right, put out a good product, and you’ll make it. The fundamentals that I learned... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the Olympic Games. ACOG has committed to the most expansive Cultural Olympiad ever, a multiyear celebration of arts, culture, and entertainment that culminates in the nine-week Olympic Arts Festival from June 1 to August 4. Classical and popular artists and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
not going to have an appreciation for the customer. How do you create long-term value? Real value is created by a motivated organization that is pursuing a mission that has a passion for the customer and a sense of excellence. Motivated View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
the future. In Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future, Stevenson (with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank) argues that predictability in the business organization - created by practices such as establishing precise View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
cyber-security and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says. “This even happened in the first week after their on-boarding.” In a video produced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers