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How to Approach an Office Romance (and How Not To)
Communication Best PracticeMany people meet their partners at work - but proceed carefully. -
7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees’ Health and Well-Being
Human resource management ResearchA roundup of research on how to create a positive working environment. -
What’s Really Holding Women Back?
Gender Magazine ArticleIt’s not what most people think. -
Executive Women and the Myth of Having It All
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to having a high-powered career and a family, the painful truth is that women in the United States don't "have it all." At midlife, in fact,... -
Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLeaders create the conditions that lead to burnout - or prevent it. -
Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleToday's overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than the workaholics of yore. They hold what Hewlett and... -
Do Something--He's About to Snap (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleLynne Tabor, an IT manager at manufacturing giant MMI, has a great team. Everyone works hard and gets along, except Max Dyer, a talented programmer who... -
New Tools of Trade
Global Business Magazine ArticleHarvard Business School's Regina M. Abrami and Texas A&M's Leonard Bierman argue that companies hurt only themselves when they block legislation that... -
What Employers Need to Know About Suicide Prevention
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleResearch on common predictors, effective interventions, and strategies to support employees if a colleague dies by suicide. -
U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism
Race Digital ArticleHere’s what leaders can do today. -
Should Your Company Provide Mental Health Apps to Employees?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleGuidelines to help HR managers think through the decision. -
Do Something--He's About to Snap (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleLynne Tabor, an IT manager at manufacturing giant MMI, has a great team. Everyone works hard and gets along, except Max Dyer, a talented programmer who... -
Do Take That Break
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA recent study from Wellington Hospital in New Zealand found that office workers who sat for several hours without getting up were more likely to form... -
Why Mandates Make Us Feel Threatened
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFeeling a loss of autonomy can trigger our brain's fight-or-flight response. -
3 Scenarios for How the Pandemic Could Change U.S. Health Care
Global Business Digital ArticleWhy the federal government must offer support to the critical services most at risk. -
How to Develop a Covid-19 Employee Vaccination Policy
Business ethics Digital ArticleLessons from a health care system in Texas. -
Work and Life: The End of the Zero-Sum Game
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleUsing actual examples from front-line managerial situations, this article explains and explores three work-life principles executives can adopt to create... -
High-Performance Office Space
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleAt its corporate headquarters, the pharmaceutical giant Lilly has broken free from the tyranny of the cube farm, redesigning its offices with flexible,... -
Health Care Workers Protect Us. It's Time to Protect Them.
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleYou shouldn't have to put your life on the line to be a hero. -
A 3-Step Strategy to Support the New U.S. Mask Mandate
Global Business Digital ArticleHere's what CEOs and other leaders can do.
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Indupalma (A1): The Initial Years, 1961-1977
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Indupalma was managed as a plantation since its creation in 1961. Labor conditions were grim, and labor unrest was at a peak when the general manager... -
Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement, Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in... -
BUBEN&ZORWEG: STRATEGIZING TIME
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In January 2019, Florian vom Bruch was brought in as the first external CEO to lead the privately-held luxury watch winder and safe company, BUBEN&ZORWEG.... -
Corning Glass Works: The Electronic Products Division (A), Japanese Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes a division of Corning Glass Works that finds itself with deep financial and organizational problems. Severe conflict and lack of coordination... -
Calvin Klein, Inc. vs. Warnaco Group, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details On May 30, 2000, Calvin Klein, Inc. (CKI) filed suit against Warnaco Group, Inc. and Linda Wachner, its CEO, for breaching its jeanswear licensing and... -
Mirvac (B): Building Balance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This award-winning case case explores the challenges facing Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, the CEO of Mirvac, an Australian property group, as she leads a major... -
Job of the General Manager, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes elements of the job of the general manager that are addressed in the Management Policy and Practice course at the Harvard Business School. These... -
Handy: The Future of Work? (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy's founders... -
UltraTech Cement: A Transition Towards Behaviour-Based Safety
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details UltraTech Cement Limited was a global leading producer of cement that had implemented best-in-class safety practices at all of its units. Despite this,... -
The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details For roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan essentially... -
Silver Cloud, Inc.: Charles Lake Mill (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The Charles Lake Mill had experienced more than 200 days of strike in the previous 10 years, and its employees were accustomed to returning to the mill... -
The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems--and What to Do about It
30.00View Details How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it. There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of--and it threatens... -
Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Faced with a persistent robbery problem at his convenience store company, Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac's of Central Canada,... -
Uber: The Turbulent Rise of "Everyone's Private Driver"
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The meteoric rise of ride-sharing firm Uber illustrates how gig-economy firms can grow to prominence and disrupt older, mature industries. Yet Uber's... -
Union Carbide's Bhopal Plant (A), Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In December 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, sprung a leak, releasing thousands of gallons of highly toxic gas into the atmosphere. By the... -
Max Green: Work Patterns at Ditto (C), Spanish Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details According to his managers, Max, a software engineer on a product development team, is an organizational superstar. Describes his life and provides a log... -
Allentown Materials Corp.: The Electronic Products Division (A), Portuguese Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details A division of Allentown Materials Corp. has financial and organizational problems. Conflict and lack of coordination exist between functional groups.... -
Pho Hoa Dorchester
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Pho Hoa is a traditional, family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Dorchester, Massachusetts that opened in 1992. As he approached retirement in recent years,...
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How to Approach an Office Romance (and How Not To)
Communication Best PracticeMany people meet their partners at work - but proceed carefully. -
7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees’ Health and Well-Being
Human resource management ResearchA roundup of research on how to create a positive working environment. -
What’s Really Holding Women Back?
Gender Magazine ArticleIt’s not what most people think. -
Executive Women and the Myth of Having It All
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen it comes to having a high-powered career and a family, the painful truth is that women in the United States don't "have it all." At midlife, in fact,... -
Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLeaders create the conditions that lead to burnout - or prevent it. -
Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleToday's overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than the workaholics of yore. They hold what Hewlett and... -
Indupalma (A1): The Initial Years, 1961-1977
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Indupalma was managed as a plantation since its creation in 1961. Labor conditions were grim, and labor unrest was at a peak when the general manager... -
Do Something--He's About to Snap (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleLynne Tabor, an IT manager at manufacturing giant MMI, has a great team. Everyone works hard and gets along, except Max Dyer, a talented programmer who... -
Let’s Protect Our Frontline Workers from Rude Customers
A conversation with Georgetown’s Christine Porath about how to improve customer-facing work in an era of incivility. -
Putting the Organization on Wheels: Workplace Design at SEI
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleTo create an environment to embody a culture of flexibility, egalitarianism, teamwork, and entrepreneurship, SEI Investments built a distinctive headquarters....