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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Relations in Organizations The workplace remains the primary locus of racial interaction in American society; as such, it is a valuable, albeit neglected area for research, write HBS associate professor David A. Thomas and Karen L....
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- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
confided to [Facebook CEO Mark] Zuckerberg that she felt as though her workplace friendships were melting away. One night before bed, she wrote a 1,700-word explanation of what she was going through and how she hoped people would interact...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the factory. Maybe we should change...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
operations for any of the multiple workers and vendors involved in getting goods from the loading dock to the warehouse. Over the course of the pandemic, RoadSync grew from 25 employees to 100 and now operates with a hybrid workplace...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
culture was familiar, especially for someone coming from a low-income background. Students like him, as well as those who were the first in their families to attend college, often face unique challenges in adjusting to academic,...
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Jennifer Mele
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
says, came in adapting the culture of the workplace to accept the autistic employees. This was done through autism-awareness training sessions for all employees, and management training for workers engaging...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
the author’s debt to Belvedere College and the Jesuits as the great influence on his life philosophy and life choices. McEvoy also reflects on how Irish banks morphed from being customer oriented, conservative, dull, and profoundly honest in the 1950s to the very...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
such as, "Other less mobile cultures have more centralized cities, with tighter cultures and families; the United States has urban sprawl, massively wasteful resource usage, looser nuclear families, and much...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
executives would find out that I was meditating,” Burton admits. Today, he wants everyone to know about the workplace benefits of meditation and other stress-management techniques. Six years ago, Burton founded Whil, a digital training...
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April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
culture that’s best cultivated in person, as well as the kind of collaboration that’s unlocked when people gather around a whiteboard with their best ideas. Even so, there are continued uncertainties around the pandemic and what the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
cultural historians, and even scholars interested in the decorative arts. Part of this new interest has been around the topic of women in business and women at work.” The problem, says Linard, was that “we really didn’t know how much...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work
related to growth and efficiency. In a variety of case studies, students in the MBA elective Managing the Future of Work consider technological trends reshaping today’s workplace and actions business leaders can take. In particular, cases...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
father taught us we should make a contribution in some way and that responsibility comes along with success." At The Partnership since 1991, Wiley leads an organization that helps minorities gain access to the city's corporate power structure and encourages them to...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
says, people throughout the business community are interested in diversity in the workplace and looking to scholars to guide their decision making. Studying the complex and multifaceted topic requires a group of investigators from a wide...
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April White
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
evolution in the contract between employees and employers. The conversation also considered how the post-COVID workplace will be different, as technology and work modes continue to evolve. The next day, on October 21, HBS clubs around the...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
much we can ask individual women to do while systemic barriers still exist. We need to make institutional and cultural changes. Have we moved beyond the need to make the business case for creating more diverse workplaces? CA: The narrow...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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South Asian Women at Work
Smart but passive. Good technicians, but not likely managers. Women from India and Pakistan frequently must combat stereotypes about how they function at work. But they should resist labels and pursue the careers of their dreams, said panelists in a discussion on women...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
their workplace “unit” similar to military life. “A driving motivation among the frontline workers was not letting down the people around them,” she explains. “Leading in a civilian setting is not unlike in the military: if you do your...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
sticky, by agitating, innovating, and orchestrating change, those with less power can challenge established structures to make them more balanced. They teach readers how to power-map their workplace to find who can create real change,...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Free (The High Mountain Sheriffs Series) by Ed Massey (MBA 1967) (Pen-L Publishing) Are You Talent Obsessed? Unlocking the Secrets to a Workplace Team of Raving High-Performers by Beth Armknecht Miller (OPM 30, 2001) (Amazon) This book is...
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