workplace diversity - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

one’s affairs and household. Achieving work-life balance is not, therefore, a matter of containing how much one world intrudes on the other. It’s a matter of developing the discipline to apply a few simple principles and to implement them in the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

and principles—that is, by providing freedom within a galvanizing framework—leaders can equip employees to make on-the-ground decisions that are in the company’s best interests. Gulati uses businesses as diverse as Netflix, Alaska... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

“what would I have done in that situation?” Interesting and diverse characters, great acting, and multiple story lines made for compelling viewing. Rosabeth Moss Kanter On my serious reading pile are books about American history and the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

solving a problem with varying states of interaction with teammates: zero interaction with peers, intermittent interaction, or constant interaction. “Once upon a time, work in real workplaces was intermittent,” Bernstein says. You would... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

New South Wales. Local Construction of a Global Standard: Foreign Share Ownership and Workplace Gender Diversity in Japan explains that historically, the Japanese corporate structure has made it difficult... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

made MIA unique—offering affordable homes for its BOP customers in Mexico—to fulfill other critical needs at the BOP for water, clean energy, and health care services? Jaime was an expert in housing, but could he translate that expertise to such View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

build a literature more effectively than they could with less diverse approaches to gathering data. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51015 April 29, 2016 Science The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling By:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

comprehensive and multidisciplinary view of the field of user and open innovation, reflecting advances in the field over the last several decades. The contributors—including many colleagues of Eric von Hippel—offer both theoretical and empirical perspectives from such... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

gender, and class. Over the past five years, the energy of social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo has made power sharing across race, gender, and class—and their intersections—an imperative. Here, again, corporations have a critical role to play. Building... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

actually have a lot to learn from one another, rather than setting one country's management practices up as a standard to which others should conform—or else they do not measure up or are somehow "backward." A good deal of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

increasing inclusion in the workplace and gender diversity and reducing environmental damage and progress towards tackling climate change. The early results from his efforts were promising, but was there... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

Diversity in the Workplace Harvard Business School Case 407-029 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407029 Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

book shows why such "predictable surprises" put us all at risk, and shows how we can understand, anticipate, and prevent them before disaster strikes. There is a universal fear factor surrounding this subject: that society and the View Details