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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
June of 2015, 124 undergraduates from 14 women’s colleges attended PEEK, a new two-day on-campus academic experience designed to give applicants an introduction to HBS and to business. Ultimately, Ely hopes the School will become the... View Details
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Podcast - HBS Online
Edmondson, Anthony Mayo, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Nancy Koehn. Season 2 Bonus Content (Part 1): AI & Navigating the Future of the Workplace 27 JAN 2025 | The Parlor Room In this special episode, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive,... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
vital weapon in the competitive arsenal of most organizations, may be seriously handicapped by the very action intended to increase a company's competitive position. Amabile has been studying creativity in the workplace for some 25 years.... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
employee. In order to achieve this it is necessary to design a system to support a high level of service and consistently reinforce that culture. Human resources practices have the power to impact company culture. The case studies... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
"Early in life," says Bennie Wiley, "I learned an important guiding principle: look for ways to exercise your values." As president and CEO of The Partnership, an organization designed to open doors for minority professionals in the city... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
platforms. “How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers” was the most-read story on Working Knowledge in 2016. Other popular topics among our readers included workplace communication, negotiation, white-collar crime,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
years, but there continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically. I see executives fall into two patterns: The first is the older generation of executives who are... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
employers on this issue. Much of my research is about the impact of workplace transparency (the observability of employee activities, routines, behaviors, output, and/or performance) on employee productivity and collaboration. So these... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 15 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"
perspective, shifting emphasis to broader results. The curriculum pushes us to think beyond asking how to individually contribute more in the workplace and in society, instead focusing on how to design... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
The academic study of institutions provides important insights into topics such as job design and health-care reform. But the field is a complex one, and it's not always obvious to outsiders how the intellectual tools of the trade are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- Web
Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog
entrepreneurs, managers and project members, or soon-to-be-returned to the workplace MBAs to build trust in themselves? Building Trusted Organizations is designed to answer these questions. You will learn... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
workplace disruptions all companies have faced. DreamBox, which is based in metropolitan Seattle, the epicenter of the first-known US outbreak of COVID-19, was among the first wave of companies to transition to a fully work-from-home... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to product management by the broad range of creative and strategic activities. I felt that product design and pricing were important determinants of success. It was a function that... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
like product attributes, pricing, and distribution. My vision of the future changed to product management in the wider consumer goods industry. I was attracted to product management by the broad range of creative and strategic activities. I felt that product View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
In a US presidential election year with more twists and turns than most in recent memory, many of the issues on the ballot impact business. And keeping politics in the workplace respectful is forefront on managers’ minds as a divided... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the Atlantic and a LinkedIn influencer. She is an author of Lean In & McKinsey Women in the Workplace reports on the status of women in corporate America. She is an expert on gender, women’s leadership, diversity and inclusion, financial... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
A company's internal deliberations and changing beliefs about women in the workplace over the course of two decades, particularly about their role as leaders, is the subject of a recent paper that traces how fundamental societal views can... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
workplace negotiation and the way academics study negotiation are overwhelmingly masculine. But despite evidence that the game is rigged against them, women still believe they'd be better negotiators if they only tried harder. Scholars... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
very rational view of people, and workers were almost considered like widgets," says Assistant Professor Ian Larkin, a member of the NOM Unit. His experimental research suggests that social comparisons are a bigger workplace motivator... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
employees across a variety of functions worked remotely and in January 2020, Humana was ranked 15th most flexible workplace in the U.S. by FlexJobs. Humana has earned this reputation by offering remote work arrangements, using a variety... View Details