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- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
organization through the actions and the silence of leadership. Not only can ethics be taught, it is being taught every time people watch what you do and what you don't do. The issue is not whether ethics can be taught, it's whether the...
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by Harvard Management Update
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
comfortable sharing their ideas. Not every idea will be the next big idea, but it’s critical that employees feel safe sharing so that when the big idea comes it won’t be silenced or left uncovered. Human Resources leaders can use...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Memoir, by Anna Wiener The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, by Robert Iger —Kurt Daniel (MBA 2000) Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering, by Makoto Fujimura A reflection on...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
Michael Beer Is silence killing your strategy? In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
forecast dispersion increases and forecast accuracy decreases." For those wishing the full story, read "Is Silence Golden? An Empirical Analysis of Firms that Stop Giving Quarterly Earnings Guidance." What is to be done? A...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
between men and women—as opposed to hiring biases, gender discrimination, or a hostile workforce—were at least partially responsible for the low numbers of women in tech. At the time, 20% of Google’s tech workforce, and 31% of its overall staff, was female. Damore also...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence...
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
Students will come to appreciate unique business protocols practiced in Japanese companies - e.g., exchange of name cards, silence in elevators, empathy to co-workers, being on time, etc. - that contribute to Japan’s unique approach to...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
class for the first five weeks," he recalls. "My classmates were all the crème de la crème, with button-down shirts I had never seen before." He finally broke his silence during a discussion of the International Monetary Fund. "I had a...
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- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant, Bloomberg, April 2, 2019, Bloomberg.com Kevin Roose, YouTube’s Struggle To Silence the Stars Who Sell Conspiracy, The New York Times, February 19, 2019, pp. B1-B2.
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- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
acknowledged, oral history can still be seen as a critical source of data on opinions, voices, and judgements on events in which there was often silence in written records. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
silence his anticorruption activities. The deputy governor of Kirov called the charges "complete nonsense." Another case, Caijing Magazine, set in China, looks at how an inside-outsider, Wang Boming, uses his independent...
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- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
In his 1641 treatise, Meditations on First Philosophy, philosopher René Descartes introduced the concept of an "evil genius," a powerful force of nature who is equally clever and deceitful. Since then, the world has given us plenty of examples—Hannibal Lecter...
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- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
offering more ways of tracing and communicating such activities," says Healy. (He wrote an article article on such initiatives in the Harvard Business Review with HBS Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna.) If the most egregious forms of corruption are going to be rooted...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
theoretical explanation for workplace silence based on implicit theories of voice. Cases & Course MaterialsASUSTek Computer Inc. Eee PC (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-011 ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
officer, Ryan emailed his employees with a plea to keep talking. Yet, the explicit discussion of race is considered taboo at many companies, and, more often than not, business leaders remain silent on the issue. That cloak of silence from...
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
silence from top executives and vague, misleading public statements—frustrated U.S. government officials and the public. Not until weeks after the news first broke did Toyota organize a clear message around its commitment to return to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
are worth pursuing. When most people hear a new idea, it’s human nature to see its flaws, so during the brainstorm processing, no criticism should be allowed. I know of a manager who brings along a squirt gun to brainstorming sessions. After a few squirts, people learn...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
his fellow activists didn’t know at the time how scared the Communist government was of the voices of mere students and the resources it committed to silencing them. Attempts were even made to expel Maj from the university and when that...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
to be respectful of the things in our life that are already gone. And so ever since then, we have built a temple every year that's a counterpoint to the man. And while the man burns in a crazy celebration on Saturday night, the temple burns in View Details