Employee Attitude - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

business analysts who "tend to be lower level employees and have a high turnover," creating a "losing battle" through the loss of "institutional data knowledge." (Kim Kraemer) Avoid the belief that "whatever is new will solve their... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw lessons from seven case studies about the multiple and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2018
Teaching Note

Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work

By: Boris Groysberg and Amram Migdal

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036. View Details

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19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

organization design are probably the most important factors in determining whether a business is ultimately successful. Getting that right requires the ability to think about a business from the lens of various stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and most... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

Bowes adapted its approach to employee health amid rising health care costs, shifting employer attitudes towards health benefits and a rapidly changing policy environment. By 2008, the firm was widely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

long-time faculty members, the late Walmsley University Professor C. Roland Christensen and Abraham Zalesnik, now Matsushita professor of leadership emeritus, "is his willingness to take risks, to decide upon and implement action based on limited knowledge."... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

firing trigger. We make every effort to help our employees succeed and achieve excellence. And we have an attitude of gratefulness." He adds: "It's not necessarily any easier to run a company based on... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

Psychology The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work By: Brodsky, Andrew, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—Although both media commentary and academic research have focused much attention on the dilemma of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions about government policies and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

1996, and she moved back to the States, taking a job as vice president of operations with Warner Brothers Television in Los Angeles. "What I missed most about America was the attitude that you can be anybody and still get ahead in the... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

to survive." Bhide also points to "certain attitudes and skills" that spell entrepreneurial success. One is "the ability to make decisions in real time, with very limited information," a skill that may ring a bell with HBS grads. "Yes,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

regulations may be outdated in the era of Uber—not to mention other successful companies in the so-called sharing economy, such as the travel home-rental website Airbnb (currently valued at $25.5 billion). But he argues that it’s dangerous to foster a corporate View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

of organizational life (e.g., ethical decision making, race relations, and worker well-being). In addition to having published more than a hundred journal articles, Art is author or editor of several books including Attitudes In and... View Details

January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg

In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details

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05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

result of such despondency, children are not encouraged to go to school; many fail to attend at all or drop out early. Yet many multinational corporations, while undertaking their regular profit-making activities, have managed to change this View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

requires the ability to think about a business from the lens of various stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and most importantly the employees of an organization. Having only worked as an investor professionally, I used to think... View Details

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

various stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and most importantly the employees of an organization. Having only worked as an investor professionally, I used to think about a given business simply through that investor lens, but... View Details

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

following year. In Chasing Stars, Groysberg explains the importance of having an integration strategy, whether a star is joining a new baseball team or a new team of financial analysts. "Even stars need time to adjust to new settings, and successful integration... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

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Artist Support | Baker Library

have real human and historic value. Ansel Adams The intersection of photography and art at Polaroid reflected changing attitudes toward photography within the broader academic and museum community. In his discussions with Kennedy, Land... View Details

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