Culture Of Health Plan Of Action - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

the company acknowledged, the USLP was an unprecedented commitment. Each of the plan’s overarching goals was broken out into specific action areas and targets, which totaled more than fifty measurable items.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

workers to attend when sick, including work overload, lack of backup, and understaffing. Some occupational cultures have the same effect, glorifying “toughing it out” as an indicator View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

foster that. While teaching the case, Mikes asked students to participate in their own scenario- planning exercise, deciding actions to take in Asia if they ran LEGO. Importantly, students had to figure out... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon. Excerpt from Code Name Ginger. 5. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

starting to come due for a culture not used to paying them. “Thousands of years of environmental degradation have put more strain on a finite amount View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

presentations had been essentially identical and the audiences at first blush quite similar, the attitudes he encountered were disparate. "In Northern California, 80 percent of the audience thought climate change was largely man-made and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

and people part of the equation. Tushman, for example, asks a fundamental question: As a leader, what do you have to do to cause an organization to change? "Over all of this, we use a number View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

clear: many retail segments are under assault by cheaper, more convenient retailers selling online. "The surprising thing is that despite the success of lots of big businesses in having developed Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

series of ecosystems, they urge, with "keystone" companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart providing for the health of all who do business with them. What are the best... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

"then we can more considerately say how big an organization needs to be to accomplish the ends " Srinivasan questioned whether size alone matters, pointing out that size has to be considered alongside such things as "conviction focus ability to create a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

company as opposed to their department or themselves; hire people whose values and skills fit the culture and strategy, thus reinforcing and sustaining the community of purpose. In addition, leaders spend a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

actions from around the globe. They then adjusted those actions for each country or region to make them comparable in categories such as the total percent of gross domestic... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Often the CEO is portrayed as 'the only person in the world who could do this job' You can thank the financial press for this mystique." In pointing out the futility of the effort, Rebecca West commented that "the current... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

much broader setting. "Students would ask me about the possibility of establishing a global system of business ethics," Paine says, "and whether cultural clashes... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-066 Mohamed Azab and Seha Capital In January 2011, Mohamed Azab, founder and CEO of health care investment firm Seha... View Details

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

from the tragedy? For one, small decisions have big consequences. Key concepts include: Words and actions by leadership shape perceptions and beliefs of organization members. Leaders need to hold a delicate... View Details

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

out the costs of leaving the EU, citizens have not heard a forward-looking plan on how the country could leverage EU membership more effectively in the future, if the country would decide to stay. The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

a way to do it," with some cautions and advice about how to make such information available to all. For example, Praveen pointed out that, "It is essential to have a culture of mutual trust but we... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

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