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- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
long. She could not help but think the American Dream, or even just the chance to live a dignified life, was out of reach no matter how early she left for work or how late she stayed. Because she had been in charge of workers’ safety at a...
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by Avery Forman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
workplaces to better assure safe working conditions. The case includes a dataset and exercise. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618019 Harvard Business School Case 618-064 Improving Worker View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
Source: FangXiaNuo The Harvey Weinstein horror show has brought attention to previously unspoken abuses of male power to sexually harass and suppress women. Prominent women are joining the #MeToo moment, feeling safety in numbers as they...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their...
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Re: George Serafeim
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Leadership Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:In Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, edited by D. Rhode and B. Kellerman. Jossey-Bass (forthcoming) Abstract In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://hbr.org/product/cancer-screening-in-japan-market-research-and-segmentation/an/514057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-034 Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety in Bangladesh (A) On April 24, 2013, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
of work experience before HBS. The case method hinges on the fact that our classrooms are full of students with very diverse backgrounds. We have army officers, retailers, engineers, teachers and consultants with years of experience under their belts. The View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
were proposed. Paula G commented that "Boards need to become more involved to protect the interests of the owners they must look outside to trusted advisors for compliance." Hughe said, "One way to get compliance is to frame harassment as a View Details
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by James Heskett
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
bank, “on the ground floor,” first as a teller, then accounts clerk, safety deposits clerk, and bookkeeper. “All of these roles helped me understand the guts of the organization,” he says. “It was humbling, but I am forever grateful,...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006
Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
Anywhere, which publishes March 30. The book acts as a “blueprint” for long-term workplace transformations, providing evidence-based advice for navigating the virtual work world, including dos and don'ts from companies that have embraced...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
several fatalities there. There were 28,000 employees at that mine; we brought people up from below ground and worked to retrain and refocus them. We lost millions of dollars while production was curtailed, but it was the right thing to do. We’ve improved our View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
perspective, from all of the safety measures, the food, the recruiting of the teachers. So if I was going to scale, I needed to get into schools. What I found very early on, too, is that the girls were so grateful that they had this...
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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
gentrification and daily quality of life,” says John Peters (MBA 1986), who worked on two separate projects for the Mayor’s Office for Civic Innovation (MOCI): the Strategy Project, focused on clarifying the MOCI’s vision and mission; and the View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
the company, from light bulbs to medical systems to financial services. It was a very valuable time for me because I gained hands-on experience applying 'quality' principles to the environmental health and safety arena. I worked with...
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- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. Both books marry a focus on performance with a look at leadership and organizational change—how to enable, support, and...
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