Work environments

This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer...

Part of a series on the Discipline of Teams. The series examines successful high-performance teams in best-practice product and service companies and...

Teams of students receive identical product design specifications, a sample unit of the product, and a series of assignment questions that entail time...

Supplements the (A) case.

Mastercard, the global payments company, is known as a leader in privacy by design; senior leaders promote data responsibility and employees follow strict...

Set in 2019, this case illustrates a design thinking intervention programme carried out at the Elite's Smile Specialized Medical Complex in the city of...

Are you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to replace...

At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators-bright and capable young men and (mostly) women...

Texan entrepreneur Trisha Wilson has founded an interior design firm and watched it grow into one of the most successful firms in the hospitality design...

Set in 2019, this case illustrates a design thinking intervention programme carried out at the Elite's Smile Specialized Medical Complex in the city of...

In June of 2022, Jada Abimbola, chief executive officer and owner of Workplace Safety Trainers (WST), needed to develop a strategy for the business after...

This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The...

Jordanian entrepreneur, Nour Al Hassan, founded Tarjama in 2008, tapping into an underserved and high demand need: Arabic translation service. Its lean...

In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, ordered the temporary shutdown of Anglo American Platinum's...

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a multinational IT services company headquartered in Mumbai, is a subsidiary of one of India's most reputed conglomerates,...

Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply chain presents an ongoing challenge for managers and area of debate. Much...

Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience...

This award-winning case explores the challenges facing Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, the CEO of Mirvac, an Australian property group, as she leads a major initiative...

The nature of work is changing-and it is changing rapidly. Few days go by without industry giants such as Amazon and AT&T announcing plans to invest billions...

CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and related companies and providing basic business needs...

A guide for employees and managers.

A roundup of research on how to create a positive working environment.

Many people meet their partners at work - but proceed carefully.

“Role incredulity” is a systemic issue — and organizations need to deal with it.

The woods, the weeds, the rocks, the high ground.

But you can use them to your advantage.

A lot of leaders believe that the formula for attracting and keeping talent is simple: Just ask people what they want and give it to them. The problem...

It's never been easier for workers to collaborate--or so it seems. Open offices, messaging, and virtual-meeting software in theory make people more visible...

Ask people to explain why women remain so dramatically underrepresented in the senior ranks of most companies, and you will hear from the vast majority...

Gallup surveyed more than 5,700 fully on-site workers in the U.S. to find out which flexibility options are available to them - and which would entice...