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Designing Buildings that Are Both Well-Ventilated and Green
Global Business Digital ArticleExtra ventilation often means using more energy - but it doesn't have to. -
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMost professional women step off the career fast track at some point. With children to raise, elderly parents to care for, and other pulls on their time,... -
Making Time Off Predictable--and Required
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePeople in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead - and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to... -
Life's Work: Norman Foster
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOne of the world's most celebrated architects talks about inspiration, teamwork, and the importance of good workplace design. -
Rethinking "Back to Work"
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMost organizations approach flexibility either as an ad hoc work-life accommodation or as permission for employees to get their work done on their own... -
Worker Safety Needs to Be Central to Your Company’s Operations
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleIt’s an investment, not a cost. -
How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIntermountain Healthcare holds more than 2,500 huddles every morning. -
How to Develop a Covid-19 Employee Vaccination Policy
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLessons from a health care system in Texas. -
Who Moved My Cube?
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleManagers once discouraged casual interaction among employees, viewing it as a distraction from "real work." Today we know that chance encounters on the... -
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... -
Must Success Cost So Much?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA study of more than 2,000 male executives and their wives over a five year period indicates certain factors which affect the ability of executives to... -
Big Chairs Create Big Cheats
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA new study shows that large office furniture makes people feel powerful--and that may make them more dishonest. -
In Open Workplaces, Traffic and Head Count Matter
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleFace-to-face team communication thrives when employees' cubicles are located along main routes of circulation and near a variety of informal gathering... -
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 Space Exploration and Health Care Can Teach You About Navigating Uncertainty
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTried and tested strategies from professionals accustomed to crisis. -
Balancing "We" and "Me": The Best Collaborative Spaces Also Support Solitude
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe open office is the dominant form of workspace design for good reason: It fosters collaboration, promotes learning, and nurtures strong culture. But... -
Is Your Company Prepared for the Effects of Wildfires?
Workplace health and safety Digital ArticleWhat companies can do now to address poor air quality and other health concerns of climate-related disasters. -
Fear and Stress on the Job
Leading teams Big IdeaWorkers and managers explain why incivility is a company problem, not an individual one — and how to address it. -
It's OK to Fail, but You Have to Do It Right
Global Business Digital ArticleFailing once at something new is an experiment, and experiments are crucial to success. Failing twice at the same thing might be more accurately called... -
How to Network When There Are No Networking Events
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStep one: Turn canceled conferences into private networking opportunities.
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Women@Work: Lynn (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half... -
Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The... -
Kathryn McNeil (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Women@Work: Lynn (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half... -
The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States,... -
Kathryn McNeil (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old... -
Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View 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,... -
Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design
Management Case Study5.00View Details In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking... -
WeWork: Tech Comes to Commercial Real Estate
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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: Han-na (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half... -
A Brief History of African American Leaders in Unions and the Labor Movement
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This historically-focused teaching note highlights the role of African American Labor Leaders in both the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement.... -
Women@Work: Jane (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half... -
The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View 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... -
Women@Work: Soo Jin (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half... -
Differences at Work: Sameer (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details In Differences at Work: Sameer (B) HBS Case No. 9-609-054, Sameer leaves the firm at the summer's end without confronting his employer about the jokes... -
Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly-appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, was considering shutting down mines in South Africa for... -
Psychological Safety (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
Management Book19.99View Details Create a space where everyone can contribute and shine. Psychological safety is a shared belief within a team that it's OK to speak up, ask questions,... -
Handy: The Future of Work? (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy's founders... -
Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in...
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Designing Buildings that Are Both Well-Ventilated and Green
Global Business Digital ArticleExtra ventilation often means using more energy - but it doesn't have to. -
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMost professional women step off the career fast track at some point. With children to raise, elderly parents to care for, and other pulls on their time,... -
Women@Work: Lynn (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half... -
Making Time Off Predictable--and Required
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePeople in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead - and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to... -
Life's Work: Norman Foster
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOne of the world's most celebrated architects talks about inspiration, teamwork, and the importance of good workplace design. -
Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The... -
Kathryn McNeil (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Rethinking "Back to Work"
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMost organizations approach flexibility either as an ad hoc work-life accommodation or as permission for employees to get their work done on their own... -
Women@Work: Lynn (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This series of six short two-part cases ("caselets") is written to highlight workplace dynamics faced by women professionals. Women represent about half... -
Worker Safety Needs to Be Central to Your Company’s Operations
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleIt’s an investment, not a cost.