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- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
Hare echoed Wittenberg's opinion: “(Bureaucracies) are far too often, about themselves and expanding the power and influence of the people who head them.” Tom commented, “Most governmental bureaucracy is the result of crossed purposes:...
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by James L. Heskett
- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
same time, she says the current problems aren’t likely to dim the high regard other nations place on the Swedish model, in part because none of them have managed to replicate it. While she sees strong echoes of the model in Taiwan, and...
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by Lane Lambert
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
be our people. It will be our humanity that drives our creativity, powers our competitive spirit, and keeps us out in front.” Technology changes the nature of work But at the same meeting, McMillon also acknowledged how technology changes the nature of work itself, a...
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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
race was no longer relevant or that we had somehow collectively moved beyond race in the workplace,” Roberts says. The picture that emerges from the essays in Race, Work, and Leadership echo the same message: Race not only still matters...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
underlying reason why: Leaders often get stuck in echo chambers that merely reinforce their own ideas, says Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer. Meanwhile, lower-level employees are often fully aware of the problems that plague...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
broaden opportunities, but not bogging them down with an echo chamber of more than a dozen friends in common. A moderately weak tie might be someone three or four years ahead of a job-seeker in the same industry, whom the job-seeker met...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
their numbers, but they weren’t a good corporate citizen essentially,” Minor says. “So what he basically says is you have to close your eyes to their great productivity and have the courage just to terminate them.” Minor echoes Welch’s...
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by Roberta Holland
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
perennial topic for writers on capitalism, from Progressive historians who argued that elites used the advantages of wealth to skew political structures in their favor to consensus historians who found more widespread support for a market-oriented liberal political...
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Manufacturing
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
presidents he managed still echoed in his head. He couldn't escape his frustrations about carrying one partner who hated travel, didn't know how to sell business, and—while good at producing work that was assigned to him—hadn't progressed...
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by Kim Girard
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices. (Photo courtesy of View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
discuss different perspectives. But one speaker after another just echoed what the previous speaker had said. When any manager did dare to dissent, a colleague would quickly dismiss his idea. Having effectively tabled every discussion in...
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
comment from “The Real Deal” echoes this belief: “If you want real diversity, surround yourself with people from different backgrounds who do not think like you. You could hire 50% women, and if they are clones of your existing leaders,...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
and attracting entirely new ones. Rethinking A Trip To The Museum A museum trip has traditionally been an intensely physical experience: walking gallery floors, hearing footsteps echo off spacious halls, and seeing up-close the brush...
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- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
know-it-all leaders unnecessary for successful change, they often muck it up. Echoing Garvin, Rosabeth Moss Kanter notes that it's very difficult for leaders to spell out in advance precisely what the future state should look like—so many...
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by Nick Morgan
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Badaracco, Jr., the School's John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, sums it up this way: "I wouldn't want a Fortune 500 company bringing me religion." Echoes Vaill: "Talking about spirituality in the business context feels...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
someone I always thought was inclusive, but in hindsight he was not. He put women in top roles, but they did not get an equal voice. Many times, I was told what decisions were rather than being asked to make the decision or provide input.” This experience is View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
traditional nonprofits, what's most important is the social purpose, but hybrids also have economic objectives to generate enough revenue to sustain their operations." Echoing Green Battilana and Lee, who were designing the database...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
other slums in Asia. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710004-PDF-ENG Echoing Green Harvard Business School Case 410-013 This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
bubble on the horizon. As in the United States, the high cost of housing can undermine economic competitiveness as young families move farther and farther out, spending more time and more money on housing. If the reasons behind the headlines are unique to Israel, the...
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