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How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research
Health and wellness Digital ArticleA guide for employees and managers. -
Unconscious Bias Training That Works
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTo become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, many companies have turned to unconscious bias (UB) training. By raising awareness of the mental shortcuts... -
Be a Better Ally
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements have forced people in positions of power--namely, the white men who dominate institutional leadership roles--to... -
When You Need to Take Time Off Work for Mental Health Reasons
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAnd how to get back into the swing of things afterward. -
Making Exit Interviews Count
Managing people Magazine ArticleThis underused practice can be a powerful tool for retention. -
How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany White people deny the existence of racism against people of color because they assume that racism is defined by deliberate actions motivated by malice... -
Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTrans people often experience stigma and discrimination, hostility from others, and pressure to "manage" their identities in social settings, including... -
A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek
Organizational Development Big IdeaAs organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week... -
Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire
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What Companies Should Ask Before Embracing Wearables
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFrom RFID chips to Fitbits. -
Compensation and Benefits for Startup Companies
Compensation and benefits Magazine ArticleYou’ve decided to start a company. Your business plan is based on sound strategy and thorough market research. Your background and training have prepared you for the challenge. Now you must assemble the quality management team that venture investors demand. So you begin the search for a topflight engineer to head product development and a […] -
Your Employee Tested Positive for Covid-19. What Do You Do?
Global Business Digital ArticleBe compassionate - but act quickly. -
Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe trade-offs can be complex. -
Case of the Religious Network Group (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleGenCorp, a Connecticut-based paper-goods manufacturer, has long supported employee-organized network groups. Its social support group for African-Americans,... -
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Career planning Magazine ArticleStepping off the career fast track is easy. What’s hard is getting back on. Careers, companies, and economies suffer when highly skilled women cannot get back where they belong. -
How Employers Are Fixing Health Care
Health and behavioral science Big IdeaWalmart has embraced a new approach to improve the quality of care and lower costs. The results have been dramatic. -
How Technology Brings Blind People into the Workplace
Technology and analytics Magazine ArticleIn these days of low unemployment, many corporate and other organizations find it necessary to track the whereabouts and profiles of underused sectors of the labor pool. One sector seldom tapped by business has an unemployment rate as high as 70%—even though the advent of new data-processing technology has opened a window of opportunity for […] -
5 Things Employers Get Wrong About Caregivers at Work
Organizational Development Digital ArticleMyth #1: School and childcare are back to normal. -
Who's Harassed, and How?
Leadership & Managing People Big IdeaLongitudinal research exposes the prevalence of harassment and reveals clues about why it persists. -
The Most Desirable Employee Benefits, Chinese Version
Organizational Development Digital ArticleHealth insurance, flexible hours, and vacation time.
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Creating a Happier Workplace Is Possible — and Worth It
Business and society Digital ArticleToo many of us are disconnected, disengaged, and bored at work. -
Best Practices for Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce
Age and generational issues Digital ArticleFive strategies to ensure your company is an age-friendly employer. -
Research: Flexible Work Is Having a Mixed Impact on Employee Well-Being and Productivity
Business management Digital ArticleTo be truly engaged, employees must thrive in both their personal and professional lives. -
Why Your Organization Should Use Salary Benchmarking
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleMarket data can drive fairer compensation and boost employee retention. -
How to Avoid the Unexpected Consequences of Your DEI Policy
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleResearch suggests taking a systems-level view of inequality. -
A New Approach to Writing Job Descriptions
Developing employees Digital ArticleIt’s time they reflect the flexibility and fluidity of modern day roles and responsibilities. -
How to be an Anti-Ableist Ally
Management VideoWhen your company envisions a "normal" employee or a "normal" customer, who do they see? And when does that definition of "normal" underscore an ableist... -
How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research
Health and wellness Digital ArticleA guide for employees and managers. -
5 Ways Leaders Can Support Adoptive Parents
Compensation and benefits Digital ArticleHow employers do — or don’t — step up can have a major impact on employees and their families. -
Don’t Underestimate the Value of Employee Tenure
Business and society Digital ArticleResearch suggests it has a positive — and sizable — impact on firm performance. -
How Financial Accounting Screws Up HR
Talent management SpotlightIt distorts hiring, training, and benefits practices. -
What Companies Get Wrong About Talent Management
Talent management Magazine ArticleThe all-too-common mistakes businesses make with recruiting, hiring, benefits, and job design—and how to avoid them -
Case Study: Should Some Employees Be Allowed to Work Remotely Even If Others Can’t?
Managing employees Magazine ArticleAn Oklahoma-based energy company grapples with its return-to-office plan. -
What Companies Get Wrong About Talent Management
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBusinesses make all kinds of mistakes when it comes to recruiting, hiring, benefits, and job design. In fact, many common U.S. HR practices are downright... -
5 Things Employers Get Wrong About Caregivers at Work
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleMyth #1: School and childcare are back to normal. -
Research: Does Cannabis Really Make You More Creative?
Creativity Digital ArticleFrom Steve Jobs to Lady Gaga, the idea that weed boosts creativity has permeated pop culture. -
The New Rules of Work Clothes
Authenticity Digital ArticlePeople’s tolerance for discomfort — and conformity — has changed. -
Should You Tell a Prospective Employer About Your Caregiving Responsibilities?
Career planning Digital ArticleThree strategies to help you make the judgment call. -
How Unpredictable Schedules Widen the Gender Pay Gap
Gender Digital ArticleResearchers analyzed pay data for Massachusetts bus and train operators — who work at union-negotiated rates — and found women still took home 11% less than men. -
How to Be a Mental Health Ally
Mental health Digital ArticleWhat to say — and what not to say — when your colleague needs some support.
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Development of a Multinational Personnel Selection System
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The owner of a company with production plants in various regions in the world wants to standardize the methods of personnel selection for the Asian-Pacific... -
Language and Globalization: "Englishnization" at Rakuten (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, (Japan's largest online retailer), is at the helm of an organization that is rapidly expanding into global markets.... -
Mixing Business and Friendship: A Complicated Employee Decision
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case describes a complicated employee decision experienced by entrepreneur, Sana Remekie, in mid-2019 after she opted to mix business and friendship.... -
Responsibilities to Employees
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The note provides a framework to conceptualize managers' responsibilities to employees in relation to economic, legal and ethical considerations. The... -
Policy Violations on Gender Transition?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details RJ Tuckerton, a graduate student, claimed in October 2019 that the student's privacy and other university rights were violated when a faculty member "outed"... -
Schon Klinik: Eating Disorder Care
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Schon Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium health care provider in a competitive German market.... -
Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home... -
Coopers & Lybrand in Hungary (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Multinational professional services firm Coopers & Lybrand has decided to enter the Hungarian market and weighs its strategic options in light of the... -
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B), Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations across India. The hospital plans... -
Helen Ramsay: A Mediation Attempt
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Two reasonable people, a boss and a subordinate, find each other 'impossible to handle'. Through their descriptions of each other's behavior we realize... -
Is This for Me? Career Decision Making in a Family Business
Communication Case Study8.95View Details The members of the second generation of the Nguyen family have begun to enter the business. Each has entered at different times and for diverse reasons.... -
MEDLEE: IN PURSUIT OF A HEALTHY JOINT VENTURE - Confidential Instructions for Pat Armstrong, MedDevice, Inc.'s Director of International Strategic Market Research
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-party, four-issue negotiation between representatives of two companies with different national and corporate cultures regarding a possible joint venture.... -
Steemit: A New Social Media?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019.... -
Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams... -
Advice for Working Dads (HBR Working Parents Series)
50.00View Details You can have a successful career and be the dad you want to be. Finally, we've moved past the days when providing for your family meant taking a backseat... -
Legal Time - Confidential Information for the Defense Attorney (Drew Davis)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Legal Time is a two-party dynamic negotiation simulation. Students take the role of either the prosecution or the defense in a case that centers on a... -
Making the Hidden Visible: Dealing with Disability in the Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Tania Kay, Marketing Manager at Consumer & Food Products Corporation of Canada (ConFood), had just returned from a marketing department team-building... -
Anthology: Pivoting the Business Model
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In July 2014, after 18 months and eight unsuccessful product launches, the CEO of Yabbly has agreed to sell his company to a larger, well-funded startup,... -
Picante Mexican Grill: A New Delhi Experience
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Modeled loosely after the American restaurant chain Chipotle, Picante Mexican Grill seeks to offer fresh and healthy vegetarian fast-food options. The...
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How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research
Health and wellness Digital ArticleA guide for employees and managers. -
Unconscious Bias Training That Works
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTo become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive, many companies have turned to unconscious bias (UB) training. By raising awareness of the mental shortcuts... -
Ask an Expert: How Do I Ask for Time Off in a New Job?
Compensation and benefits AdviceThere is no such thing as “earning” a break. -
Be a Better Ally
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements have forced people in positions of power--namely, the white men who dominate institutional leadership roles--to... -
When You Need to Take Time Off Work for Mental Health Reasons
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAnd how to get back into the swing of things afterward. -
Making Exit Interviews Count
Managing people Magazine ArticleThis underused practice can be a powerful tool for retention. -
How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany White people deny the existence of racism against people of color because they assume that racism is defined by deliberate actions motivated by malice... -
Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTrans people often experience stigma and discrimination, hostility from others, and pressure to "manage" their identities in social settings, including... -
A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek
Organizational Development Big IdeaAs organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week... -
Why Sexual Harassment Programs Backfire
Business management SpotlightAnd what to do about it