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7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees' Health and Well-Being
Organizational Development ResearchA roundup of research on how to create a positive working environment. -
How to Approach an Office Romance (and How Not To)
Communication Best PracticeMany people meet their partners at work - but proceed carefully. -
What's Really Holding Women Back?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAsk people to explain why women remain so dramatically underrepresented in the senior ranks of most companies, and you will hear from the vast majority... -
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,... -
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... -
Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLeaders create the conditions that lead to burnout - or prevent it. -
Encouraging Good Behavior from Your Customers
Sales & Marketing Big IdeaMost companies plan how they manage employees, but how many consider how to manage their customers? Given how important customer-employee relationships... -
Fear and Stress on the Job
Leadership & Managing People Big IdeaFrontline managers who spoke to HBR about the incivility that they and their employees face in the workplace outlined three key strategies to support... -
Building the Green Way
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJust five or six years ago, the term "green building" evoked visions of barefoot, tie-dyed, granola-munching denizens. There's been a large shift in perception.... -
Convincing CEOs to Make Harassment Prevention a Priority
Organizational Development Digital ArticleHow to make the case. -
Lean Service Machine
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleJefferson Pilot Financial (JPF), a life insurance and annuities firm, was looking for new ways to grow. Its top managers recognized that JPF needed to... -
What Great Office Design Actually Looks Like
Identify what works for your specific needs. -
Frontline Work When Everyone Is Angry
Global Business Big IdeaIt probably won't surprise you to learn that incivility on the front lines of business is on the rise. After all, as the pandemic wore on, we saw in real... -
Counteract Secondhand Stress
Three ways to make yourself immune to stress. -
Melinda Gates Q&A: A Billion Dollars for Gender Equality
Global Business Digital ArticleThe philanthropist is funding women in a big way. Will others follow? -
The Early Bird Really Does Get the Worm
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA survey by biologist Christoph Randler reveals that morning people are more proactive than evening people. That makes them more likely to succeed, especially... -
Why Mandates Make Us Feel Threatened
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleFeeling a loss of autonomy can trigger our brain’s fight-or-flight response. -
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... -
Create a Culture of Feedback on Your Team
The secret to constructive feedback? It's not about the other person; it's about the effect their behavior had on you. Use this and other pointers to... -
Your Resilience Starts with Your Values
Draw on resilience to navigate workplace challenges and adversity.
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NatureSweet
Communication Case Study15.05View Details This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer... -
Discipline of Teams: Duke Power Co., Fall Protection Team, Video (DVD)
Organizational Development Case Study150.00View Details Part of a series on the Discipline of Teams. The series examines successful high-performance teams in best-practice product and service companies and... -
Work Methods Design Exercise
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Teams of students receive identical product design specifications, a sample unit of the product, and a series of assignment questions that entail time... -
Kathryn McNeil (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Women@Work: Jane (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
Women@Work: Jane (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details 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... -
Workplace Safety Trainers: Resuscitating Revenue
Management Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The... -
Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, ordered the temporary shutdown of Anglo American Platinum's... -
The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply chain presents an ongoing challenge for managers and area of debate. Much... -
Sexual Harassment, Free Speech or ...?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Presents two brief vignettes about female employees who object to gender discrimination in their work environment. In one case, the manager of a convenience... -
Mirvac (A): Building Balance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good
A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion. Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results.... -
Asociacion Chilena de Seguridad (ACHS)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Outlines the history of the Asociacion Chilena de Seguridad (ACHS), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation... -
Managing Conflict in a Diverse Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Consists of several vignettes and discussion points around issues of conflict in the workplace. Issues presented are differences of race, gender, nationality,... -
WeWork: Tech Comes to Commercial Real Estate
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In February 2018 New York-based coworking company WeWork was valued at approximately $20 billion, making it the fourth-most-valuable start-up in the U.S.,... -
Women@Work: Soo Jin (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details 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... -
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,... -
NBA Biometric Data: Privacy vs. Performance
Sales & Marketing Case Study14.00View Details The NBA and the player's union that represented NBA players signed a collective bargaining agreement. The agreement created the formation of a wearables... -
The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case 317052. Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply chain presents an ongoing challenge for managers...
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7 Strategies to Improve Your Employees' Health and Well-Being
Organizational Development ResearchA roundup of research on how to create a positive working environment. -
How to Approach an Office Romance (and How Not To)
Communication Best PracticeMany people meet their partners at work - but proceed carefully. -
What's Really Holding Women Back?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAsk people to explain why women remain so dramatically underrepresented in the senior ranks of most companies, and you will hear from the vast majority... -
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,... -
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... -
Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLeaders create the conditions that lead to burnout - or prevent it. -
Encouraging Good Behavior from Your Customers
Sales & Marketing Big IdeaMost companies plan how they manage employees, but how many consider how to manage their customers? Given how important customer-employee relationships... -
Afro-Diasporic women navigating the black ceiling: Individual, relational, and organizational strategies
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIn this article, we describe how the black ceiling upheld by the powerful institutional logics of patriarchy and white supremacy, inordinately challenging... -
NatureSweet
Communication Case Study15.05View Details This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer... -
Fear and Stress on the Job
Leadership & Managing People Big IdeaFrontline managers who spoke to HBR about the incivility that they and their employees face in the workplace outlined three key strategies to support...
