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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

incidents involved sexualized conversations and remarks. Women up and down the organizational hierarchy experienced similar levels of harassment. At the junior, mid, senior, and even C-level, about half of alumnae cited harassment at... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

In Pursuit of Academia

later informed her doctoral research in the School’s Organizational Behavior program. “I sat in one of the seats closest to the blackboards. I had a perfect view of the whole section,” recalls Fernandes. From there she saw a hierarchy... View Details

    Charles M. Schwab

    Schwab’s other achievements include the establishment of a profit sharing plan for Bethlehem employees and the creation of a unique leadership hierarchy that afforded lower managers much independence and greater pay. View Details
    Keywords: Metals
    • 01 Sep 2012
    • News

    Hierarchy's Last Stand

    It’s a puzzle that some people still seek high status for its own sake. Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power aren’t what they used to be. Hierarchy hasn’t disappeared,... View Details
    Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services
    • 01 Dec 2016
    • News

    Takeaways

    leads to action that produces needed results.” —Professor emeritus John Kotter (DBA 1972), That’s Not How We Do It Here!, a book written in fable form “It is now possible to build a new sort of firm that promotes open communication across the corporate View Details
    • 30 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30

    provides insight into how the broader management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

    self-confidence, sophisticated analytical skills, and the ability to make decisions quickly. And unlike the top-down hierarchy found in the U.S. military, the IDF is a ground-up organization where local commanders are responsible for... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government
    • 02 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 2

    working paper shows that the costs faced by multinational corporations in managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-003.pdf The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Peeling Back the Global Brand

    served no purpose at all beyond cosmetic appeal. Yet, silly as it seemed, the effect was real in terms of consumer preferences, he said. We talked about brand more and more as a hierarchy of persuasive elements.— Hans-Willi Schroiff... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 21 May 2018
    • HBS Case

    How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

    follow a general roadmap. The product needs to fit into a company's price hierarchy and also the rough price hierarchy of competitors and the market in general. And in the watch's case, the fact that it was... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion
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    Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

    Explain how existing power hierarchies develop and perpetuate themselves. - Describe the role of both the powerful and the powerless in reinforcing hierarchies and explain the reasons people resist change. -... View Details
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    Matthew Boys

    eBay, he “crunched data about site users” for about nine months, then transferred to Skype as a business analyst. “It was a fun company to work for,” says Matt. “We had a flat hierarchy – you could talk to anyone in the company. We had... View Details
    • 29 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Research Symposium 2014

    across several measures, including professional status (the hierarchy of each team), psychological safety (the extent to which team members felt comfortable speaking up about work-related issues), and leader inclusiveness (the extent to... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
    • 14 May 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

    management. It relies on a new kind of executive, one who breaks out of the traditional corporate hierarchy to share knowledge freely across the organization (the horizontal part of the "T") while remaining fiercely committed to... View Details
    Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
    • 02 Oct 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

    been unable to keep pace in no small part due to the reliance on hierarchy and the dominant position given very highly compensated CEOs." Jackie Le Fevre put it this way: "Short answer to the question—increasingly difficult... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 01 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

    hierarchy are associated with a decentralization of the decision-making process," Sadun says. "On the other hand, we have the communication technologies, which actually do exactly the opposite." It's Different Roles... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 15 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 15

    ecosystems, hierarchy is an architectural property that refers to the degree to which transactions proceed in a single direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." It is often assumed that a unidirectional flow of goods... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

    A: Make sure that the family is open to really including the non-family managers in important management decisions. Quite often in the family they get together on Sunday afternoon for dinner and make important decisions and the non-family managers aren't around. There... View Details
    Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
    • 26 Jun 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

    dominant form of organization has been of a hierarchy. Now and in the future, Clark said, many more people in the organization will be responsible for taking action and initiating strategic activities. As the old hierarchy is beginning to... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 09 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Incentives and Operational Excellence

    important reason, but by no means the only one, he added. Others include communication problems, a lack of hierarchy for resolving issues—think of Ford and Firestone, and the finger-pointing on both sides—and the potential for data... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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