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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventually cut 15,000 jobs from the company's payroll. In ten years of growth between 1982 and 1992, the number of employees had risen from 41,500 to 116,700, and the airline's fleet had grown from 231 to 897 planes. However, in 1991, due...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
people with the right attitude (one that fits with the organization's culture), and proper training and organization (often in teams). Financial targets are given no more or less emphasis than targets associated with View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
value claimers, and this all-for-me attitude becomes apparent in a variety of ways. For example, during internal corporate budget disputes, some executives focus only on their own needs without considering the requirements of other...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
College. In a talk titled "An Historical Perspective on Feminism," she discussed the intersection of the abolitionist and women's rights movements—and how attitudes of the nineteenth century mirrored those surrounding the 2008...
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by Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
people we’ve got and equip them to do the jobs that we see emerging in the future? That is, I’m presuming, a concern for Iron Mountain as you undergo this digital transformation. How do you view the role of the company in upskilling, reskilling people, View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
willingness to invest, commit, work hard, persist and persevere, making confidence a highly desirable trait. There are four levels of confidence, with each level building on the prior one: Self-confidence: This is what most people associate with confidence. This is a...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 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.
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Communication;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Human Resources;
Employee Relationship Management;
Management Skills;
Performance;
Performance Evaluation;
Personal Development and Career;
Relationships;
Groups and Teams;
Social Psychology;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Conflict and Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Emotions;
Perception;
Personal Characteristics;
Perspective;
Power and Influence;
Prejudice and Bias;
Reputation;
Satisfaction;
Trust
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about the processes, the employee experience they'll encounter, but you have to talk about all three parts of this value proposition.Fuller: What do you think catalyzed this change? Is it changing attitudes...
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- 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...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
young consumers. I believe that will be true in our case. How would you describe the Starbucks company culture? It is highly aspirational and very people-oriented. Starbucks gives stock options to all employees (we call them partners); we...
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- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
in terms of both the bankruptcy code and the cultural attitudes toward corporate restructuring. This case can fit into an introductory course in a module on capital structure and the tradeoff between the costs and benefits of debt or in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about consumer-driven health care. The firm...
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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...
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by Carla Tishler
- 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...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
back into the office, and the employees are going to feel compelled to be there to be around the boss?Elliott: One of the topics that we talk about a lot, both within Slack and at Future Forum with the other organizations, is we need to...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
love our mission.” A lot of people believe that women have already “made it.” Why is the work that Catalyst does still necessary? If a problem is not solved, it’s not solved. I think people want to move on; there’s a sense of “Oh, we’re still thinking about the woman...
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